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MINUTES U. C. V

VOL 1.

New Orleans, La., June 10, 1889,

(ORGANIZED.)

1. Chattanooga, Tenn.,

2. Jackson, Miss.,

3. New Orleans, La.,

4. Birmingham, Ala.,

5. Houston, Texas,

6. Richmond, Va.,

7. Nashville, Tenn.,

July 3, 1890.

June 2, 1891.

April 8 and 9, 1892.

April 25 and 26, 1894.

May 22, 23 and 24, 1895.

June 30, July 1 and 2, 1896.

June 22, 23 and 24, 1897.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

NOTICE.

In binding up the Minutes of various Conventions of the
United Confederate V erterans, I feel that I am taking a course
that cannot hut he beneficial to the Order which has such a
claim on the affections of Confederate soldiers throughout the
entire South. I am proud to say that I have calls from all
sections of the globe for these bound volumes; and to place
them in libraries where they can be consulted by those seeking
information, must serve the cause which we revere, and con-
vince all impartial readers of the justness of the principles for
which we fought for four years with so much distinction.

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

New Orleans, La., January 22, 1907.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

CONVENTION FOR ORGANIZATION

AND ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

United GoqMente faring

Held in the City of New Orleans, La.

JUNE lOth, 1889.

Col. F. S. WASHINGTON, President.
Col. J. A. CHALARON, Secretary.

1S91.
Hopkins' Printing Office, 22 Commercial Place. New Orleans.

Following is the regulation badge or button,
adopted by the United Confederate Veteran Association,
at their Reunion, at Jackson, Miss., June 2nd, 1891.

Which can be worn on the lapel of the coat, by
every Veteran, who is a member in good standing of a
Camp in the United Confederate organization.

Official:

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff'.

PROCEEDINGS.

The convention met in response to the following circular:

To the Veteran ex-Sotdiers and Sailors of the Confederate States :

Comrades: — In view of the ideas which permeate our minds that
we, of the South, should, in a spirit of amity and friendship, in the
interest and for the benefit of our whole Republic, form a feder-
ation of associations, and that all ex-Confederate soldiers and
sailors now surviving, who were in good standing,, be invited to
join with us for that purpose, we beg to suggest:

The formation of an association for such benevolent, historical
and social purposes, as will enable us to do justice to our common
country, care for our needy and disabled comrades in their declining
years, and assist the needy widows and orphans of our comrades, in
a spirit of mutual friendship, fraternity and good will.

That in order to have a full expression of opinion in the organ-
ization of an association such as we seekr we desire to name dele-
gates from this district to a convention to be held at such time and
place as may be agreed upon, for the purpose of effecting, after
full consideration, the formation of such perfect agreement as is
necessary for the purpose herein set forth.

We request you to make the necessary appointments, in order
that the views herein expressed may be fully considered, and the
features of a general association carried out, without in any manner
interfering with local or State associations.

Will you send representatives from your association, with
authority, to a general convention? We naturally suggest New
Orleans as the appropriate place of meeting, date the 10th June prox-
imo. If our views do not meet with your ajiproval, please be kind
enough to make your suggestions. We speak as a Committee for
the Louisiana Division of the Army of Northern Virginia, the
Louisiana Division of the Army of Tennessee, and the Veteran Con-
federate States Cavalry Association, and hereby earnestly invite
your co-operation in this movement

Respectfully submitting the above, we remain comrades,
J. A. Chalaron, F. S. WASHINGTON,

Secretary, Chairman General Committee.

Chas. Moore, Jr., Assistant Secretary.
GENERAL COMMITTEE.

ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.

F. S. Washington, David Zable, E. D. Willett, Leon Jastremski,
Pat Hays, John H. Murray, N. J. Hoey.

ARMY OF TENNESSEE.

J. A. Chalaron, Louis Sorapuru, A. J. Lewis, E. H. Brunet, Jr., Dr.
Y. R. Lenimonnier, J. B. Lallande, Eugene May.

VETERANS CONFEDERATE STATES CAVALRY.

Dr. Y. R. Lenimonnier, Wright Shaumberg, A.. W. Crandell, J. Henry
Belian, Samuel Henderson, M, J. Costley, T. J. Butler.

Extracts from minutes of Convention held June 10, 1889.

The meeting- was called to order at the headquarters of the
Army of Northern Virginia, at noon, by President S. F. Washington,
of the A. N. V. Mr. Nicholas Cuny, of the Army of Tennessee, was
appointed temporary Secretary-
President Washington, in calling the meeting to order, on be-
half of the General Committee, composed of the New Orleans asso-
ciations, extended to the visiting delegates a cordial and hearty wel-
come. The object oi the meeting, he said, was to organize a gen-
eral confederation of the various associations for historical, social
and benevolent purposes, and he hoped that it would result in a
powerful and successful movement

Rev. Thomas R. Markham, of the Army of Tennessee, invoked
the divine blessing upon the assemblage and the cause for which
they had gathered.

It was decided to appoint a Committee on Credentials and Re-
presentation, to consist of one member from each organization re-
presented, and President Washington, at the suggestion of the vari-
ous organizations, appointed the following gentlemen:

J. F. Shipp, Chattanooga; J. A. Trousdale, Gallatin, Tenn. ; J.
M. Crews, Memphis; J F. Dupuy, Iberville parish. La.; J. F. Utz,
Shreveport; L. Sorapuru, Army of Tennessee; J. H. Murray, Army
of Northern Virginia; J. Henry Behan, Confederate Cavalry.

The meeting then took a recess for half an hour to give the
committee time to report

The report showed the following organizations were represented:

Cavalrymen, Louisiana Division — J. Henry Behan, Wright
Schaumberg, A. W. Crandell, Samuel Henderson, M. L. Costley, T.
J. Butler, Dr. Joseph Jon«s, D. A Given.

N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, Tenn.— J. F. Shipp, M. H.
Cliff, Garnett Andrews, W. L. Aitkin, R. L. Watkins, L. T. Dickinson.

Cavalrymen, Tennessee Division — F. G. Johnson, Thomas F.
Perkins, J* N. Morton. J. M. Cruise, F. Fentress, J. J. Meedy, Sr.,
Matt McClung, F. S. WTebb and Capt. Dickinson.

Tennessee Division Confederate Soldiers — J. A. Trousdale, P.
G. Johnson, J. M. Crews, O. H. P. Piper, J. H. Martin, T. F. Perkins
and J. W. Morton.

Benevolent Association Confederate Veterans, Shreveport. La —
L. P. Grim, J. V. Nolan, F. E. Jacobs, P. J. Trezevant and J. F. Utz.

Confederate Association, Iberville Parish, La — Charles H.
Dickinson.

Eighteenth Louisiana — T. Herbert, Jr., and J. G. St. Julien.

Adams County (Miss.) Veterans' Association — L. D. Aldrich
and E. L. Hopkins.

Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division — J. A. Chalaron, It. H.
Brunet, Jr., Louis Sorapuru, Eugene May, A. J. Lewis, Nicholas
Cuny and J. B. Lallande.

Army of Northern Virginia, Louisiana Division — Fred S. Wash-
ington, David Zable, E. D. Willett, Leon Jastremski, Patrick Hays,
J. H Murray and N. J. Hoey.

Alternates — F. A. Ober, J. B. Kichardson, A. King-ley, J- Y.
Gilniore, J. M. "Wilson and Thomas B. McPeake.

Mr. Trezevant here moved that it is the sense of the meeting
that the delegates to this organization now proceed to permanently
organize, and for that purpose appoint a committee on organization
and resolutions, which shall have power to draft a Constitution and
By-Laws, and make such resolutions as will perfect the organiza-
tion, in order that an instrument may be laid before other Associa-
tions. It will be subject to change at any future meeting. Several
gentlemen seconded Mr. Trezevant's motion.

The motion was adopted, and the Chair appointed the following
committee to report at 8 o'clock p. m. : P. J. Trezevant, Benevolent
Association Confederate Veterans, Shreveport; Leon Jastremski, A.
N. V. ; Dr Joseph Jones, Cavalrymen; F. Shipp, Forrest Camp, Chat-
tanooga; J M. Crews, Tennessee Division Veteran Cavalrymen; J.
A. Trousdale, Tennessee- Association Veterans of Soldiers; A. J.
Lewis, Army of Tennessee; L. D Aldrich, Adams County, Miss.,
Veterans; Theodore Hebert, Eighteenth Louisiana Veterans.

A recess was then taken until 8 o'clock p. m.

EVENING SESSION.

The session was resumed at 9 o'clock, with President Washing-
ton in the chair and Capt. Chalaron at the Secretary's desk.

The Committee on Constitution and Organization, through Mr.
Trezevant, made a report submitting a Constitution, each article of
which"1 was read, article by article, and adopted as a whole. It was
as follows:

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

Article 1. The objects and purposes of this organization will
be strictly social, literary, historical and benevolent. It will en-
deavor to unite in a general federation all Associations of Confeder-

ate Veterans, Soldiers and Sailors, now in existence or hereafter to
be formed; to gather authentic data for an impartial history of the
war between the States; to preserve relics or mementoes of the same;
to cherish the ties of friendship that should exist among men who
have shared common dingers, common sufferings and privations; to
care for the disabled, and extend a helping hand to the needy; to
protect the widows and the orphans, and to make and preserve a
record of the services of every member, and as far as possible of
those of our comrades who have preceded us in eternity.

Art 2. The officers of the national or general headquarters
will be as follows: A General, a Lieutenant-General, an Adjutant-
General, a Quartermaster-General, a Commissary-General, a Judge
Advocate-General, a Surgeon-General, a Chaplain, and such aids as
the General-commanding may appoint.

Each State having five or more camps, bivouacs or associations,
and every five or more camps, bivouacs or associations in contiguous
States shall constitute a division, which will be officered under a
Major-General and a staff similar to that of the General.

The various associations shall be permitted to retain their name
and organization, but they will be registered in numerical order, ac-
cording to the date of their formation or incorporation into the

United Confederate Veterans, as Camps of Bivouacs No. of the

Division of the State or States of

The associations, camps or bivouacs may, at their option, adopt
the following nomenclature for their officers, viz: Commander; first,
second and third (or more) Lieutenant Commanders, Adjutant,
Quartermaster, Surgeon, Chaplain and Officer of the Day, Assistant
Surgeon, Treasurer, Sergeant-Major, Vidette, a color-Sergeant and
two color Guards; and define their duties.

Art. 3. The representation of the various organizations at the
annual convention of delegates will be as follows: One delegate for
every fifty members in good standing, and one additional for a frac-
tion of twenty or more members; provided, that organizations hav-
ing not less than twenty members in good standing on their rolls
shall be entitled to one delegate.

The delegates will elect, to serve for one year, the General,
Lieutenant-General and the Major-Generals, in their respective
divisions. They will also select the time and place of the next an-
nual convention, at which general reunions may also be invited. By
a two-thirds vote they may also change or alter such articles of the
Constitution as they may see proper to amend.

Art. 4. The delegates will adopt a general seal and badge for
the United Confederate Veterans. The Adjutant-General will fur-
nish, upon proper recpuisition of the camps, bivouacs or associations,
blank travelin guards, bearing the seal of the Association of United
Confederate Veterans, for the use of comrades in good standing,
the same to be countersigned by the officer authorized to do so.

Art. 5. Certificates of membership in the Association of United
Confederate Veterans will be issued to organizations applying for
admission by the General when their Constitution, By-Laws and
roll of members has been examined and found to conform with the
requirements of this Constitution. A fee of $5 shall accompany
such applications, which fee shall be placed in the general treasury
of the Association Each camp, bivounc or organization, to whom a
certificate is issued, and belonging to this General Association, shall

annually, on the day of , file with the Adjutant-General

a true and

CORRECT ROLL OF ITS MEMBERS

in good standing on that date, and shall, at the same time, pay into
the general treasury the sum of twenty-five cents per capita for each
member shown on such roll, and no camp, bivouac, association or,
organization, shall be permitted representation in a general conven-
tion of the United Confederate Veterans until the said camp, bivouac
association or organization, shall have paid said annual tax and all
other amounts due by such a camp, bivouac, association or organi-
zation.

Art. 6. The Generals and Majoi -Generals shall be empowered
to appoint their respective staffs, and the first General elected under
this Constitution is also empowered to appoint the first Lieutenant-
General, who will exercise the functions of General in case of a
temporary or permanent vacancy in that office.

Art. 7. All papers and documents pertaining to General Head-
quarters shall be forwarded through the Division Headquarters
for verification and indorsement, where division organization has
been formed.

Art. 8. Every camp, bivouac or association, will be expected to
require of each applicant for membership satisfactory proof of hon-
orable service and discharge in the Confederate Army or Navy.

Art. 9. Every comrade in good standing will be j>rivileged to
attend the meetings of any organization belonging to the United
Confederate Veterans, and receive that fraternal consideration that
they design to foster.

Art. 10. It shall be the duty of the Division Commanders and
their staffs to aid and urge the formation of new camps, bivouacs,
and organizations wherever they can be advantageously formed
within their jurisdiction.

Art. 11. The first General elected under this Constitution is
hereby empowered to issue such orders for the good of the organi-
zations as circumstances may, in his judgment, suggest, covering
cases not provided for by this Constitution.

Art. 12. Beyond the requirements of this Constitution, the
various organizations shall have full enjoyment of the right to gov-
ern themselves.

Art. 13. Until the divisions can be formed, as provided for in
this Constitution, the various organizations will report directly to
General Headquarters.

Art. 14. The discussion of political or religious subjects, nor
any political action shall be permitted within the organization of
the United Confederate Veterans, and any camp, bivouac or associ-
ation that will have acted in violation of this article, shall be
declared to have forfeited its membership in this association.

General Jastremski moved to go into permanent organization.

The Convention then went into permanent organization by the
election for a general Commander-in-Chief.

President Washington stated that he had written to

GEN. J. B. GORDON,

asking if he would accept the presidency of this organization, if
tendered to him. He then read the following answer from Genei-al
Gordon :

The Governor's Office, )
Atlanta, Ga., June 6, 1889. )
Col. F. S. Washington :

Your letter of the 3d instant interests me very greatly, and I
would not feel authorized to decline such an invitation as you sug-
gest, coming from our Confederate comrades. With sincere good
wishes, I am, fraternally yours,

J. B. Gordon.

Gen. Jastremski said that he knew of this letter, and he was
about to propose Gen. Gordon's name. In a few eloquent remarks
he nominated Gen. Gordon.

Mr. Ober, in seconding the nomination, spoke of the character
of Gen. Gordon, and alluded to the thirteen scars he carries, the
result of the war between the Northern and Southern States.

Mr. Trezevant offered the following resolution, which was
adopted :

That it is the sense of this convention, the delegates assembled,
that Gen. J. B. Gordon be elected our general Commander-in-Chief
until his successor is elected.

The convention then unanimously elected Gen. J. B. Gordon
General-commanding the United Confederate Veterans.

Mr. Trezevant offered a motion that the president, secretary
and a delegate from each association be appointed as a committee
to correspond with Gen. Gordon and to carry out any instructions
he may have to give them. The motion was adopted.

The chair appointed Messrs. Willett, Chalaron, Jones, Crews,
Trousdale, Dupuy, Hebert, Nolan and Aldridge.

Chattanoogo was selected as the place for holding the next
convention.

A true copy:

J. A. CHALARON, Secretary.

MINUTES

OF THE

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING

AND REUNION

OF THE

United Confederate Vetera^

Held in the City of Chattanooga, Tenn.

JULY 3rd, 1890.

Gen'l J. B. GORDON, General Commanding,
Col, D. A. GIVEN, Secretary.

1891.
Hopkins' Puinting Office, '22 Commercial Place, N. O.

PROCEEDINGS.

FIRST REUNION UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
CHATTANOOGA, JULY 3, 1890.

The meeting was called to order by Col. J. F. Shipp,
Chairman of the local Executive Committee, who introduced
the Hon. Xenophon Wheeler (representing the Mayor), who
welcomed the Veterans in an eloquent and polished address,
which was responded to in feeling terms by Jno. B. Gordon,
General Commanding the United Confederate Veterans.

Col. Shipp in a few remarks, nominated Col. D. A. Given,
of New Orleans as Secretary, and he was elected unanimously.

Gen C. A. Evans moved, and it was duly seconded, that a
committee of seven be appointed by the chair on revision of
the Constitution, to report back to the reunion at4 o'clock, p.m.;
said Committee to meet at the ''Read House at 2 o'clock, p. m ,
carried, and the General Commanding appointed the following
comrades on said committee, viz:

Gen. C. A. Evans, Chairman; Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Gen.
W. L. Cabell, Col. D. A. Given, Col. S. F. Washington, Col.
Leon Jastremski, Dr. J. Wm. Jones.

Col. Shipp requested those members of Gen. Jno. B. Gor-
don's staff, now in the city, to meet at the rooms of N. B. For-
rest Camp, at 1 o'clock p. m.

Gen. E. Kirby Smith was introduced, and after delivering
a telling speech, requested his staff to meet at the Read House
at 3 o'clock, p. m.

Gen. Tige Anderson was then called upon and bowed his
thanks.

Gen. W. L. Cabell was called for and delivered a most ex-
cellent speech.

Capt. Kell was called for and made an appropriate reply.

Gen. Evans was loudly called for and made a most elo-
quent and stirring speech.

Col. J. F. Shipp announced an entertainment, to be given
in the present tent, at 8 o'clock, p. m., for the benefit of the
monument fund to the memory of the "Wizard of the Saddle.''
— N. B. Forrest — and invited all present to attend.

All Chaplains present were requested to meet at Dr.
Bockman's, at 5 o'clock, p. m.

Surgeon General, Joseph Jones, requested the medical
corps to meet at the Stanton House at 3 o'clock, p. m.

There being no further business, upon motion the reunion
adjourned to meet at 4 o'clock, p. m.

D. A. GIVEN, Secretary.

EVENING SESSION, 4:15 P. M.

Reunion met pursuant to adjournment, Gen. Jno. B. Gor-
don, commanding, in the chair, and Col. D. A. Given, Secre-
tary, at his post.

Secretary Given, by request of Gen. Evans, Chairman, read
the report of the Committee on Revision of the Constitution,
which being read article by article, was adopted, and upon mo-
tion was unanimously adopted as a whole.

Col. Given, by request, made a few appropriate remarks
and read a memorial from "The Christain Woman's Exchange, '*
of New Orleans, which was received with great enthusiasm.

Secretary Given was instructed to notify the Christian Wo-
man's Exchange, of the approval, thanks and support of the
United Confederate Veterans, in what they had already done
and proposed to do.

A memorial from "Sons of Confederate Soldiers" asking
authority from this body to organize throughout the United
States, organizations as auxiliary to said United Confederate
Veterans, was presented in a speech by one of their delegates
as follows, viz:

MEMORIAL FROM CONFEDERATES' SONS,

Headquarters F. M. Walker Camp No. i, )
Sons of Confederate Veterans. f

Chattanooga, July 3, 1890.

United Confederate Veterans, Jno. B. Gordon Commanding:

At a meeting of Frank M. Walker Camp, and visiting
Sons of Confederate Soldiers, in the city, held this day at 3 p.
m., a committee was chosen, as undersigned, to memorailize
your organization with a view to establish throughout the United
States an organization to be known as the United Sons of Con-
federate Soldiers.

In pursuance of this duty thus imposed, we respectfully
submit the following.

Inasmuch as through the unalterable laws of nature the
participants in the great struggle between the States are rapidly
passing away and only a few years remain until even the young-
est of them will have crossed over to join their comrades in the
great " Beyond ; " and honoring our fathers who fought in the
forces of the Confederate States, and desiring in some substan-
tial way to prove our esteem for them as men and due admira-
tion for their valor and courage as soldiers; and to the end
that we may aid in the perpetuating the story of their prowess
in the greatest war of modern times, and that history shall do
them and their memory justice, and that a fair and impartial
record of their deeds and the causes for which they fought may
be kept; and further to render aid and assistance to our fathers,
members of the Veterans' organization of the country in all
their efforts at fraternization, and in keeping alive a keen in-
terest in the sentiments that should actuate all patriotic organ-
izations.

We, therefore, petition you to take some action looking
toward the chartering of the Sons of Confederate Soldiers, so
that they may by authority effect a permanent organization,
acting under one general charter and having one central, grand
aim as outlined above.

Believing that the desire for such an organization is general
among the young men of the South, we respectfully ask that
action be taken by you at as early an hour as possible, so that
our general organization maybe perfected without unnecessary
delay.

T. R. Gress, Atlanta, Chairman.

S. M. Payne, Atlanta,

A. W. Edens, South Carolina.

S. T. Rucker,

L. G. Walker,

S, P. Dodson,
of F. M. Walker Camp, Chattanooga.
Upon motion of Dr. J. Wm. Jones, duly seconded, it was
referred to the Committee on Revision of Constitution, Gen.
Evans, Chairman, with full power and authority to act. Said
Committee on Revision met the committee from "Sons of Con-
federate Soldiers," and after some little explanation and discus-
sion, the following resolution was offered by Col. D. A. Given,
and seconded by Gen. W. L. Cabell, which was unanimously
adopted, viz.:

(

Resolved, That the United Confederate Veterans authorize
and recognize all organization of "The Sons and Daughters of
Confederate Veterans (not soldiers), throughout the United
States, provided the said organizations or associations shall
first submit their Constitution and By-Laws to the General
commanding the United Confederate Veterans, for his sanction,
approval and authority to organize.

The following resolutions were offered by Gen. C. A.
Evans, seconded by Gen. W. L. Cabell, and after glorious
speeches by both of these comrades, were unanimously adopted
as follows, viz:

The United Confederate Veterans in their first annual con-
vention assembled, desire to say to the South that they will
regard it as a high privilege to have committed to them the
sacred duty of earring forward the plans already projected at
New Orleans for erecting a suitable monument to the memory
of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States. Their
organization originated amidst the solemn scenes of his death,
and it appeared then as it does now, most fitting that such a
body should be the agent through which multitudes who rever-
enced the great cheiftain might express their admiration of his
virtues, their veneration for his character, and their apprecia-
tion of his martial and civic heroism in adversity as illustrated
in his life.

No prejudice, passion nor partisan politics becloud this
proper and patriotic purpose to display that high veneration in
which the dead President is regarded, and to represent in dur-
able stone to future generations the esteem in which the Con-
federate cause was held by Southern men. His monument will
signify an embalming of his personal dignity within the furled
folds of the Southern flag, not to be the spot where future peo-
ple will come to foster sectional strife, but where they will be
inspired afresh with the sentiment of lofty, heoric patriotism.

The United Confederate Veterans are men incapable of
cherishing- other feelings than those of the noblest toward the
common country in all its broad dominion. Their affection for
each other as comrades in march, camp and battle where they
enjoyed victory or suffered defeat; their admiration for their
great leaders, living and dead, their pride in Southern valor;
their devotion to the Heaven-favored land of the South; their
purpose to proserve an impartial history and to perpetuate the

glorious memories of the great war are not inconsistent with
their proven fidelity to the terms of their surrender; their man-
ifest appreciation of the heroism of the Union veteran; their
patriotic allegiance to the Government of the United States;
their enthusiastic cheers with which they greet our country's
flag; their willingness to unite with all sections to build up the
whole commonwealth, their resentment of any foreign invasion
of the common rights or realm; and their readiness to give
themselves, their sons and their fortunes in defense of this great
Union of free and sovereign States.

The monument which they wish to erect will be of that
chaste, simple and suggestive form appropriate to the character
of the Chieftain and to the sentiment of the South. As no
passion prompts its construction, so no mere pride of disply
will be the motive of this expression of their regard. They
would make that monument become the voice of the nob4e-~ -
hearted Southern people who will not, because of adversity,
forget the chivalrous, sincere, devoted man who was their civil
leader in war and their example of dignified submission in
defeat.

With these views the United Confederate Veterans bee
permission to unite with all associations formed for the purpose
of raising the funds required for this appropriate monument,
and would call upon the entire South as well as on every ad-
mirer of heroism anywhere, to share in this expression of a
common sentiment. Therefore,

Resolved, That the General of this organization appoint a
Central Committee to have charge of this movement, of which
Committee he shall be the Chairman, and that this Committee
confer and co-operate with other associations, appoint other
Committees and proceed at once to organize the most suitable
plans for carrying out this object with the least delay possible."

Col. Given arose and said that the ladies of the "Chistian
Woman's Exchange," of New Orleans, with whom the move-
ment for a monument to our lamented President originated de-
sired to state that all their collections and donations would be
through the United Confederate Veterans; received writh cheers
and "God bless them."

Election of officers for the ensuing year being in order,
the following comrades were elected by acclamation amidst
great enthusiasm, viz:

Jno. B. Gordon, General commanding; W. L. Cabell,

Lieutenant General Trans-Mississippi Department; E. Kirby
Smith, Lieutenant General East of Mississippi Department.

Upon motion of Dr. Joseph Jones, Surgeon General, a
committee composed of the General commanding and staff,
were appointed to devise the best plan for caring for indigent
Confederate soldiers.

The question regarding the place of next reunion having
arisen, several cities were placed in nomination, but upon mo-
tion being made, duly seconded and carried, the time and place
for the next reunion was left with the General commanding and
staff, with full power and authority to act.

The following resolution was offered by Col. D. A. Given,
and passed unanimously, viz:

Resolved, That the badge of the United Confederate Vet-
erans shall be the Confederate battle flag (square in shape),
with the initials U. C. V., the size of which to be adproved by
the General commanding, and a record filed at General Head-
quarters.

Col. Colquitt offered the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted, viz:

Resolved, That the thanks of all visiting Confederates are
hereby extended to N. B. Forrest Camp, and to the citizens of
Chattanooga, for their splendid reception and generous hospi-
tality during our stay in this city.

Resolved, That the Secretary of this Convention is in-
structed to furnish a copy of these resolutions to the Com-
mander of N.B. Forrest Camp and to the daily papers of
Chattanooga.

The following parties handed the Secretary their creden-
tials, authorized as delegates to the reunion on behalf of their
camps, viz:

Army of Northern Virginia, New Orleans — F. S. Wash-
ington, chairman; L. Jastremski, E. D. Willett, J. Moore Wil-
son and L. Smith.

Association Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division — R. D.
Scriven, chairman; Jno. Glynn, Jr., L. J. Fremaux, James H.
Duggan, R. W. Gillespie, E. L. Bower, John K. Renaud.

Veteran Confederate States Cavalry, Louisiana Division —
D. A. Given, chairman; J. B. Donally.

Washington Artillery, Louisiana Division — Chas. G. John-
sen, C. L. C. Dupuy.

Bivouac of Confederate Veterans, Shrevcport, La. — D. Hol-
land.

Conjederate States Veterans Association of North Louisiana,
Ruston, La. — Judge Allen Barksdale.

Caldwell Bivouac, Russelville, Ky. — Joe B. Briggs.

Turney Bivouac, Winchester, Tenn. — R. G. Slaughter,
Robert Harris.

Bartow Camp, Cartersville, Ga. — A. M. Foute, W. A.

Anderson Bivouac No. 2i , Tullahoma, Tenn. — Dr. G. D.
Buckner, John P. Bennett, Dr. J. B. Cowan, W. S. Daniel, Jas.
Ferrell, J. M. Travis, W. L. Norton, W. T. Wilson, J. F.
Mitchell, W. H. McLemore, J. G. Aydelott.

Troup County., Ga., Veteran Association — W. B. Jones, R.
S. Foster, J. E. Toole, E. T. Winn.

Floyd County, {Ga.), Confederate Veterans — J. W. Turner,
Dr. C. S. Harris, J F. Wardlaw, J. A. Mav, W. H. Camp, J. E.
Moore, A. D. Hardin, F. W. Carroll, J. M. Perkins.

Confederate Veterans, Campbell County, Ga. — J no. M.
James.

Veterans of Shelby and Panola County, Texas — Cicero Smith
James Blackenship.

Hall County, Ga. — Geo. W. Johnson.

Shackelford Bivouac, Tennessee — J. FT. Holman, F. M.
Kelso, R. J. Small, Crump.

Ex- Confederate Association of Chicago, III. — Jno. I. Ken-
dall, R. H. Stewart.

Confederate Veterans' Association, Talladega, Ala — R. F.
Cauley.

And very many other Ex-Confederates of good record,
who met with us to assist in forming a permanent and lastino-
Association of United Confederate Veterans. There being no
further business, the meeting adjourned to take part in the par-
ade of the morrow (4th of July), and to lend their aid in prop-
erly celebrating the "Natal day" of our common country, subject
to the call of the General commanding, who will appoint date
and place of the next reunion.

D. A. GIVEN, Secretary.

MINUTES

SECOND ANNUAL MEETING

AND REUNION

OF THE

United Confederate Veteraqg

Held in the City of Jackson, Miss,

JUNE 2nd, 1891.

Gen'l J. B. GORDON, General Commanding.
Col. D. A. GIVEN, Secretary.

1391.
Hopkins' Printing Office, '22 Commercial Place, N. O,

LIST OF CAMPS

Admitted into the Fellowship

UNITED I CONFEDERATE I VETERANS

Army of Northern Virginia Camp No. 1, La. Div. New Orleans, La

Army of Tennessee " " 2, " "

Shreveport Veteran Association. ... " " 3, " '* Shreveport, La

N. B. Forrest " " 4, Tenn. " Chattanooga, Tenn

Fred Ault " " 5, " " Knoxville, Tenn

Jeff. Davis . . " " 6, La. " Alexandria, La

Ruston • " " 7, " " Ruston, La

Ex-Confederate Ass'n Chicago ... " "8, Mo. " Chicago, 111

Veteran Confederate States Cavalry " " 9, La. " New Orleans, La

Ward Confederate Veterans " " 10, Fla. " Pensacola, Fla •

Raphael Semmes " "11, Ala. " Mobile, Ala

Turney " "12, Tenn. " Winchester, Tenn

W. W. Loring " "13, Fla. " Brooksville, Fla .

R. E. Lee " "14, La. " Opelousas, La

Washington Artillery " " 15, " " New Orleans, La

Henry St. Paul " " 16, "

Baton Rouge " "17, " " Baton Rouge, La

Iberville " "18, "

Ben, Humphreys " "19, Miss. " Crystal Sprg's, Miss

Natchez " "20, " " Natchez, Miss

Hattiesburg " "21, " " Hattiesburg, Miss

J. J. Whitney " "22, " " Fayette, Miss

Kit Mott " "23, " " Holly Springs, Miss

Robert A. Smith " "24, " " Jackson, Miss

Walthall " "25, " " Meridian, Miss

W. A. Montgomery . . " "26, " " Edwards, Miss

Isham Harrison " "27, " " Columbus, Miss

Confederate Historical Association " " 28, Tenn. " Memphis, Tenn

Ben. McCulloch " " 29, Tex. " Cameron, Texas

Ben. McCulloch " "30, " " Decatur, Texas

Sterling Price " "31, " " Dallas, Texas

Vicksburg " "32, Miss. " Vicksburg, Miss

R. L. Gibson " " 33, La. " Evergreen, La

Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate.. " " 34, Ga. " Dalton, Ga-

Frank Cheatham " «• 35, Tenn. " Nashville, Tenn

Hillsboro " "36, Fla. " Tampa, Fla.

Official GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff-

. Following is the regulation badge or button, adopted
by the United Confederate Veteran Association, at their
Reunion, at Jackson, Miss., June 2nd, 1891.

See page 5, for information and details.

Which can be worn on the lapel of the coat, by every
Veteran, who is a member in good standing, of a Camp in
the United Confederate organization.

Official :

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

PROCEEDINGS

— OF THE —

Second eAr\nual Meeting and RJeur\ion

OF THE —

United Confederate Veterans,

JACKSON, MISS., JUNE 2d, 1891.

Jackson, Miss., June 2d, 1891.

Second Reunion of United Confederate Veterans met in
the State House (Hall House of Representatives) at 10:45
a. m. Opened with prayer by Rev. H. F. Sproles, Baptist
minister, of Jackson.

Governor Jno. M. Stone delivered his eloquent and chaste
address of welcome, which was replied toby Gen'l Jno. B. Gor-
don, commanding United Confederate Veterans, in his usual elo-
quent and impressive style. Gen'l Gordon then called the con-
vention to order for business; Secretary Col. D. A. Given of
United Confederate Veterans at his post.

Roll was called and the following Camps answered through
their chairmen, viz:

Army of Northern Virginia Camp No. 1

Army of Tennessee do " 2,

Shreveport do " 3.

N. B. Forrest, Chattanooga, do " 4.

Alexandria do " 6.

Ruston do " 7

Veteran C. S. Cavalry do " 9

Raphael Semmes do "11

Washington Artillery do "14

R. E. Lee do "15

Henry St. Paul do "16

Baton Rouge do " 1 7

Iberville do li 18

R. L. Gibson (Evergreen) do " 33

being- 14 qualified Camps and a quorum; showing the following
qualified and admitted Camps absent, viz :

Fred. Ault Camp, Knoxville, Tenn.

Ex- Con federate Association, Chicago, Ills.

Turney Bivouac, Winchester, Tenn.

W. W. Loring Camp, Brooksville, Fla.
being 4 Camps in good standing.

Upon motion, duly seconded, the following Committee on
Credentials was appointed by the General commanding, to be
one delegate from each Camp present and represented, and to
have thirty minutes in which to report, viz :

J. F. Shipp, of Forrest Camp.

Wm. Laughlin, of V. C. S. Cavalry.

E. L. Russell, of Raphael Semmes Camp.

Paul Conrad, of Henry St. Paul Camp.

P. J. Trezevant, of Shreveport Camp.

W. W. Whittington (jeft. Davis), Alexandria, La.

J no. McGrath, Baton Ronge, La.

Wm. M. Owen, Washington Artillery, New Orleans, La.

T. B. McPeake. Army of Northern Va., New Orleans, La.

W. H. Rogers, Army of Tennessee, New Orleans, La.

L. Sandoz, Opelousas, La.

James Brice, Ruston, La.

Thos Gourrier, Iberville, La.

J. P. Smith, Evergreen, La.

Said Committee came into the Convention and reported
through their chairman as follows, that following Camps were
in good standing and entitled to recognition, viz:

Army of Northern Va., New Orleans, La. Div ..n votes.

Army of Tennessee, do

Shreveport Veteran Assocation,

Jeff. Davis Camp, Alexandria,

Ruston Camp.

Veteran C. S. Cavalry, New Orleans,

Raphael Semmes Camp, Mobile,

Washington Artillery, New Orleans,

R. E. Lee, Opelousas,

Hy. St. Paul. New Orleans,

Baton Rouge Camp,

Iberville Camp,

R. L. Gibson Camp, Evergreen, La.

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Ala. Div.

6 "

La Div.

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7 "

2 "

4 "

2 "

4 "

Miss. Div.

5 votes

5 "

3 "

2 "

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5 "

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Ben Humphreys Camp,

Natchez Camp,

Hattiesburg Camp

J. J. Whitney Camp,

Kit Mott Camp,

Walthall Camp,

W. A. Montgomery Camp,

Isham Harrison Camp,

Confederate Hist. Ass'n (Memphis) Tenn. Div. j

Ben McCullouch Camp, (Milan Coi) Texas Div. ro

Ben McCullouch Camp (Wise Co.) do 3 "

Sterling" Price Camp, Dallas, do r 1 "

Vicksburg Camp, Miss. Div. 6 "

and said report was accepted and approved.

Motion was made to appoint a Treasurer to receive the
initiation and per capita of the newly admitted Camps, and
that said appointment be made by the General Commanding,
who thereupon appointed Col. D. A. Given, who was at the same
time Secretary of the United Confederate Veterans, and all
new Camps admitted were directed and empowered to pay
their capita and initiation to him, to be sent to the Adjutant
General and Chief of Staff.

Assistant Quarter-Master General Col. J. F. Shipp made
his report to the Convention which was received and ap-
proved. Upon motion of Col. j. F. Shipp, the present
button or badge for the United Confederate Veterans, was
adopted, — being the battle flag, — no lettering to be upon
it, and to be uniform in size and quality, and to be had only
from the Quartermaster General, upon requisition to be made
by the proper officer of each Camp, cost of button to be 55
cents each, to be forwarded to the Quartermaster General for
expenses with each and every requsition, making cost of button
to each member 55 cents.

It was agreed and decided that hereafter (by mutual con-
sent) the R. E, Lee Camp of Opelousas, be known and num-
bered as No. 14, and the Washington Artillery Camp as No. 15.

Major E. T. Sykes offered the following remarks and reso-
lutions upon the death of Gen. W. S. Featherston, viz:

As adjutant general of the Grand Camp of Confederate
Veterans of Mississippi, I feel it my duty to officially communi-
cate to this reunion of Confederate Veterans the death at his
home, in Holly Springs, Miss., on the evening of the 28th ulti-

mo, of Gen, Winfield Scott Featherston, at the time grand
commander of the Grand Camp of Confederat Veterans of Mis-
sissippi.

Gen. Featherston was no ordinary man, and his worth was
soon recognized by his countrymen. A man of superb physique,
measuring; six feet three inches in height, of splendid propor-
tions and commanding presence, he attracted the admiring gaze
of all beholders and impressed them with the idea of the suc-
cessful co-ordination in man of body, mind and will. Born near
Murfreesboro, Tenn., August 8th, 1819, and removing in his
youth, first to Georgia and then to Mississippi, he was, at the
early age of twenty-eighth years, elected to the Federal Con-
gress from the latter State, and served with conspicuous ability
two terms in that distinguished body. Voluntarily retiring from
the political arena to devote his undivided time to the practice
of law, he soon attained the front rank in his profession. The
war coming on he was elected Colonel of the Seventeenth Mis-
sissippi Regiment of Infantry, and won his spurs at Leesburg,
where the Confederates killed and captured of the opposing
army a greater number than the entire Confederate force en-
gaged. Later, as commander of a brigade -of Mississippians,
he won fresh laurels in the ever-memorable battles around Rich-
mond, Gaines' Mill, Ellis and Frazier's Farms and Manassas,
which attest his courage and the splendid handling of his troops.

In the summer of 1863, being transferred at his own re-
quest to the Army of the Mississippi, under Gen. Joe Johnston,
he was a prominent figure in all the subsequent engagements
of that and the Army of Tennessee under the leadership of
Gen. Johnston and Hood, sharing with them its hardships and
dangers, and finally surrendering with the army to Sherman, in
North Carolina. It is conceeded that at the battle of Baker's
Creek, or Champion Hills, he rescued from capture Loring's
entire division. Since the war he has filled many public posi-
tions of trust and honor, and at the time of his death was the
grand commander of the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans
of Mississippi.

In life he measured up the true standard of trust and shed
lustre on all his surroundings. In death his name is not
quenched. The man, his character and achievements,

STILL SURVIVE IN MEMORY

and inflnence. He now rests from his labors and conflicts,

and now, on behalf of the veterans of Mississippi, I offer
the following resolutions:

Whereas official notification of the death, at his home, in
Holly Springs, Miss., at 9 p. m., on the 28th ultimo, of Gen. W.
S. Featherston, grand commander of the Grand Camp Confede-
rate Veterans of Mississippi, has been communicated to this re-
union, therefore be it

Resolved, That, recognizing, the eminent military and civic
services of our late comrade, and recalling his devoted loyalty
to and sympathy for the memory of the cause we have organ-
ized to commemorate, and in which he bore a conspicious part,

1. As an officer under Gens. Joe Johnston and Lee in Vir-
ginia, and later under Gen. Joe Johnston and Hood in the
West, the United Confederate Veterans in reunion assembled,
do hereby express their deep sorrow at his death, acknowledge
their irreparable loss in being denied his continued valuable
services in a cause so near his and the hearts of us all, and
their irrepressible regrets that the inscrutable decrees of an all
wise Providence have deprived them of the fond privilege of
his courtly presence and wise counsel at this, a reunion to
which he had so devoutly contemplated and looked forward to
with the renewed enthusiasm of youthful vigor.

2. That we tender to his bereaved family our sincerest
condolence, and to the Grand Camp Confederate Veterans of
Mississippi, our deepest sympathy.

3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family
of our deceased comrade, and the papers in sympathy with our
organization be requested to publish the same.

The resolutions were seconded by Rev. Dr. Thomas Mark-
ham, of New Orleans, who was chaplain of Featherston's
Brigade; by Col. Addison Craft, of Holly Springs, Miss., who
was fresh from the dying bed of the General, and by his aid-de-
camp, Capt. Le Cand, of Natchez, Miss., all of whom passed fervid
and eloquent eulogies on the life and character of the dead
General.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously by a. rising vote.

Upon motion a committee on resolutions composed of one
from each Camp, was appointed to whom all resolutions are to
be referred, with W. H. Rogers of La. Division, as chairman.
Recess was taken until 6 o'clock, p. m. Chairmen Rogers re-
quested his Committee (on resolutions) to meet for business at
4 o'clock, p. m., sharp.

Moved by Col. Given that the Mississippi Camps, Mem-
phis Historical Association and others by name, be admitted
to the United Confederate Veterans, upon their paying their
Initiation of $2.00 and Dues. Number of Camp to be issued
by the Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Seconded and
passed unanimously.

EVENING SESSION.

Convention assembled at 6:10 p. m.; Gen'l Gordon in the
chair and Col. D. A. Given Secretary.

Committee on resolutions through their Chairman, Col.
W. H. Rogers, reported favorably upon, and recommended the
approval and adoption of several resolutions, and amendments
to Constitution, which upon motion of Col. Wright Schaum-
burg were received and approved as follows, viz:

By Lieut. Gen'l E. Kirby Smith seconded by Lieut. Gen'l
W. L. Cabell.

"Resolved, That a Commtttee be appointed by the Gen'l
Commanding to confer with Mrs. Davis, in reference to the
place to be selected for the erection of a monument to the Hon.
Jefferson Davis, our late President and Commander-in-Chief."
The Gen'l Commanding to appoint said Committee when-
ever he thought best. Reported favorably by Committee on
resolutions, and unanimously approved by the Committee.

•' Resolved, That this association most heartly endorse the
recommendation of the Southern Press Association that public
meetings be held in every town and hamlet of the South on June
18th, 1 891, for the purpose of raising funds to build a monument
to the memory of our late chieftain, Hon. Jefferson Davis."

"In Article III of Constitution strike out the word ten (10)
and insert the word twenty."

In article III of the constitution, in the 13th line, add after
the word divisions, "whose term shall be for one year and shall
not be eligible to succeed themselves."

"Add to article III of the constitution, "that no delegate
shall be represented by proxy, unless said proxy shall be to a
member of the same, encampment with the delegate giving the
proxy."

That article II of the constitution be amended by striking
out the word secretary in the last line and adding, "it shall be
the duty of Inspectors General to examine the rolls of all

camps organized and to be hereafter organized, and whenever
it shall appear that an unworthy name is borne thereon, the
Inspector shall notify the camp commander, examine into the
case fully, and report. If the charge be sustained, after
the party accused shall have had a fair hearing, the Major
General of division shall order the name stricken from the
rolls."

In article III of the constitution, after the words two Lt.
Generals, add the words "Major Generals."

That article V of the constitution be amended by adding
thereto the following: "That all new camps organizing shall
present their roster of members through the Division Com-
mander to all camps recognized and admitted to fellowship in
this association in the States where said new camps are loca-
ted; that after the said roster of new camps shall have been
favorably passed upon by said recognized and admitted camps
in this association, the said roster shall be forwarded to the
General commanding, who shall through general orders an-
nounce the organization and fellowship 'of said new camps.
Where no division is formed in any State, the roster shall be
forwarded to the General commanding, who in all respects
shall conform to the rules herein prescribed for Division Com-
manders."

Add to article V of the constitution, "That no camp shall
be allowed representation in any meeting of the United Con-
federate Veterans, unless the Camp shall have on or before the
i st day of April preceding the meeting paid all amounts due as
initiation fee $2 00, and also the amount due per capita."

In article XIV of the constitution, "strike out the the at
beginning ol said article and insert the word 710, and strike out
the word nor and insert the word or."

"Resolved, That this convention appoint a committee com-
posed of a member from each State, through and by the chair-
man, to investigate and report any amendments and by-laws of
the constitution, to increase the efficiency of the United Con-
federate Veteran Association, at the next annual convention."

Secretary Given read report of Gen'l Clement A. Evans,
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, which was received and
pproved, as follows:

Office of Adjutant General, in Account.

i 890. Dr.

March 18. From Fred. Ault Bivouac,
Knoxville, Term., through F.
A. Moses fee. $ 5 00

April 17. From Jeff. Davis Camp, Alexa-
ndria, La., through W. W.

Whittington fee, 5 00

" 17. From C. S. Veteran Associa-
tion, North Louisiana, Rus-
ton, La., through Allen
Barksdale fee, 5 00

June — . From Louisiana Division Vete-
rans Confederate States Ca-
valry, New Orleans, La.,
through D. A. Given. . .fee, 5 00

4< 25. From Camp Ward, Pensacola,
Florida, through George
Reese fee, 5' 00

July 4. From Confederate Veteran As-
sociation of Northern Louisi-
ana, Ruston, La., through
Allen Barksdale dues, 7 70

" 4. From La. Division Veteran
Confederate States Cavalry,
through dues, 5 40

" 4. From Raphael Semmes Camp,
Mobile, Ala., through Wm.
A. Mickle fee, 5 00

" 4. From La. Div. Army Northern
Virginia, New Orleans, La.,
through F. A. Washington
dues, 22 30

" 4. From La. Div. Association
Army of Tennessee, New
Orleans, La., through Nic.
Cuny dues, 32 90

" 4. From Turney Bivouac, Win-
chester, Tenn., through W.
H. Brannon fee, 5 00 — $103 30

1 890. Cr.

Postag-e and Stationery .... $ 7 00

Printing . .. .... 1 50

Box Envelopes 2 50

Printing Revised Constitution.. 22 50

Postage and Telegrams 3 00-

Balance. .. . $ 66 80

1891. Dr.

April 28. From Louisiana Division Con-
federate States Cavalry.dues.. | 6 30
30. From Army Northern Virginia,.

dues .. 21 90

30. From Wash'ton Artillery/dues 20 30

30. From R. E. Lee Camp . . . .fee, 2 00

30. From R. E. Lee Camp . .dues, 12 70

May 5. From Hy. St. Paul Camp. ,fee, 2 00

5. From Hy. St. Paul Camp dues, 2 20

" 7. From Baton Rouge Camp, fee, 2 00

7. From Baton Rouge Camp, dues 6 20

13. From Confederate States Vet-

erans of North Louisiana... . 7 00

14. From Iberville Camp fee, 2 00

14. From Iberville Camp. .. .dues, 4 00
18. From Benevolent Association

of ConfederateVeteransT dues 6 00 — $162 10

1891. Cr.

May 10. Printing Proceedings of the

Convention of 1890 | 20 00

Postage, Telegrams and Sta-
tionery for the year 1 891 ... . 4 50

24 50

Balance. , , , . . $137 60

The vouchers for postage and other items of incidentai
expenses were not kept, amounting, total — as above — $18.50

The vouchers for printing Constitution and Proceedings
accompany this statement. The balance — $137.60 — is on de-
posit in the Lowry Banking Company of Atlanta, Ga.

Respectfully submitted,

Clement A. Evans.

Adjt Gen I, U. C. V.

Judge Allen Barksdale spoke eloquently in regard to
Gen'l Jos. E. Johnston, and moved that a committee be appoint-
ed to draft suitable resolutions, voicing the love and apprecia-
tion of this convention. rlhe General commanding at once
appointed the following committee to draft suitable resolutions,
viz: Judge Allen Barksdale, Chairman; Gen'l E. Kirby Smith,
W. H . Sims, C. W. Frazer, Rev. Dr. T. R. Markham, and they
at once retired to the senate chamber.

Question arose in regard to time and place of next reunion
of the United Confederate Veterans, and Col. B. F. Eshleman
suggested New Orleans, Col. J. F. Shipp at once moved that
New Orleans be selected for the next reunion and that the 8th
day of April, 1892, be the date, which passed unanimously.

Invitation from Jere Baxter, Esq., of Lookout Inn, was
read, inviting Gen'l Gordon and friends to a banquet to be held
in the Inn on the evening of the 4th inst.

Secretary Given read the following: "C. W. Frazer, Pres-
ident of the Confederate Historical Association Bivouac, of
Memphis, Tenn , announces that a grand union of Confederate
Veterans will be held under the auspices of said Association, at
Memphis, on the 13th of October, 1891, to which all are cor-
dially invited.''

Committee appeared from the senate chamber and through
their chairman, Judge Allen Barksdale, offered the following
resolution in honor of

THE MEMORY OF JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON:

Resolved, That in commemoration of the decease of General
Johnston, this convention desires to place on record expressions
of its appreciation of the exalted character of this illustrious
confederate chieftain; that as a leader of its armies in the cam-
paign, which in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia have their
achievements and a name and fame asenduiincr as time, their in-
debtedness is due to the skill and efficiency of his leadership,
his retreat from Dalton to Atlanta marking him as the peer of

the great historic captains whose qualities have shown the
brig-hest under difficulties that seemed the greatest; that in the
confession of that renowned general before whose outnumber-
ing forces he conducted this retreat, that it was "a dark day for
the federal arms when they confronted this confederate leader."
On the Chattahoochee we have the highest tribute to his sol-
dierly capacity and skill. That the peculiar fitness of such rec-
ord by this convention is emphasized by the fact that nearly
ever member has at some time obeyed his orders, and that
through it we desire to transmit to those who may come after
us our appreciation of his martial and civic virtues. That these
resolutions be published in our papers, and a copy of them sent,
as an expression of our sympathy, to his bereaved household.

Allen Barksdale E. Kiiby Smith, G. W. Frazer and Thos.
R. Markham signed the report as committee, which were unan-
imously adopted.

Thereupon Gen'l Gordon called Gen'l W. L. Cabell to the
chair, and taking the floor made an eloquent and earnest appeal
to the convention in behalf of the following resolution, offered
by Wm. E. Mickle, viz:

Resolved, That a committee of one from each of the South-
ern States be appointed, who shall have the power to consider
what plan, or plans, if any, can be adopted for aiding our dis-
abled an indigent brother Confederates, their families, widows
and children, and to adopt such plans or methods as may in
the judgment of said committee seem to promise success.

Which was unanimously adopted, and the following com-
mittee was appointed, viz; Gen'l Jno. B. Gordon, Chairman,
Georgia; S. D. Thurston, Texas; W. H. Sims, Mississippi; H.
H. Norman, Tennessee; Wm. E. Mickle, Alabama; B. F. Es-
hleman, Louisiana; A. C. Haskell, South Carolina; C. M.
Busby, North Carolina; Gov. Fleming, Florida; Gov. Eagle,
Arkansas; Genl. F. M. Cockrell, Missouri; Gov. S. B. Buckner,
Kentucky; Gen'l Fitz Lee, Virginia; Gen'l Bradley T. Johnson,
Maryland.

Motion made and seconded to proceed to election of
officers for the ensuing year.

General Gordon arose and in making a personal explana-
tion, suggested to the veterans the election for this year (the third)
of some one other than himself. Dr. Jos. Jones, on behalf and
in the name of the Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Camp
. No. 9, U. C. V., La. Div., in a very eloquent and forcible speech

nominated Gen'l Jno. B. Gordon for re-election to the office of
General Commanding, and Capt. W. R. Lyman in the name of
the Army of Northern Virginia Camp No. i, U. C. V., La.
Div'n, immediately seconded the nomination amidst prolonged
and enthusiastic cbeers and cries of,

GORDON, GORDON, GORDON,

> Col. Wright Schaumburg in the name of the Army of Tennessee,
Camp No. 2, U. C. V., La. Div'n, at once moved that nominations
be closed and that Gen'l Jno. B. Gordon be elected unanimously,
which was carried amidst the wildest enthusiasm.

Gen'l Gordon in resuming the chair, and in acknowledge-
ment of his re-election with the deepest emotion and feeling,
said: "I cannot speak to you my brethern. My heart full, is
at your feet; my life and all I have is at your service."

Col. W. H. Rogers of the Army of Tennessee, nominated
Gen'l E. Kirby Smith for Lieut Gen'l of the Dept. East of the
Mississippi, and he was unanimously re-elected.

Col. H. W. Mansur of Texas, nominated Gen'l W. L. Ca-
bell, for Lieut. Gen'l of the Dept. of the Trans Mississippi, and
he was unanimously re-elected.

Resolutions of thanks to the committee of arrangements,
to the Citizens of Jackson for their hospitality, and to the ladies
for their kindness and taste in decorating the hall, were passed
unanimously.

At 7:30 o'clock, p. m., the Second Reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans adjourned, Sine die.

D. A, GIVEN, Secretary.

MINUTES

OP THE

THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

AND REUNION

OF THE

United Confederate Vetei^

HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, Li,

April 8th ^ 9th, 1892.

J. B. GORDON, General Commanding.

GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff,

NEW ORLEANS, LA. .

HOPKINS' PRINTING OFFICE, 20 AND 22 COMMERCIAL PLACE.

1892.

nvcii^TTTiES

OF THE -

THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

J^lSTJD ZFLETXlSriOlSr

OF THE —

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS

HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, LA.,

APRIL 8th and 9th, 1892.

J. B. GORDON, General Commanding.

GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.:

Hopkins' Printing Office, 20 & 22 Commercial Place,

1892.

i isr id :e x:

PAGE.

Organization United Confederate Veterans, with list of Commanders,

Adjutants and Brigadier Generals 5, 6

List of Camps, with numbers, names of Commanders and Adju-
tants and Summary 7, 17

List of Delegates 149 to 171

Committee on Davis Monument 172

" Constitution and By-Laws 173 to 174

" Pension for Mrs. Davis 173 to 174

Committee to Memorialize Governors and Legislatures in behalf

of maimed and helpless Confederate Veterans and their widows 175

Historical Committee and on Southern School History 175

Committee on Credentials 20, 21

" " Order of Business 20

" Resolutions 20, 21

of Honor to escort Gen. Longstreet 48

" and Contest for Meeting place next Reunion,

47, 53, 66, 67 and 90 to 97, 176

Order fixing date of next Reunion 176

Chaplain General Rev. Dr. Thos. R. Markham's Prayer 14 to 15

Oration by Senator John W. Daniel 24 to 46

Address by General Commanding J. JB. Gordon 17 to 19

Gen. W. J. Behan 14

Mayor Jos. A. Shakespeare 16

Private J. M. Long, of Paris, Texas 91 to 93

Jos. F. Johnston, of Birmingham, Ala 91

Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson on Status of Virginia 86 to 87

Hon. J. TaVlor Ellyson on Davis Monument. . 100 to 101

Maj. Gen. John C.'Underwood 74 to 76, 107 to 109

General W. G. Veal 90, 91

A. T. Watts 94

Smith 93

Report of Committee on Order of Business 49

" " « on Credentials 54 to 65

" " " " " (supplementary report). .70 to 76

on Resolutions 49, 66, 76, 97

" from Adjutant General Geo. Mooiman 84 to 87

" " Quartermaster General J. F. Shipp 87 to 90

" " Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Jones .82 to 84 and

" " Assistant Commissary General J. Henry Bekan.109 to 110

" « Major General John C. Underwood 79 to 82

General Jas. Longstreet ... 19, 47 to 48, 54, 59, 65, 107

Badge or button of U. C. V's 12.

Index.

PAGE.

Lieutenant General W. L. Cabell 13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 53, 64, 73,

74, 100, 101

Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith 13, 107, 109, 113

Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee 13, 59, 65, 66, 107, 109

Major Gen. W. H. Jackson 13, 20, 49, 60, 62, 63, 64, 78, 90, 93, 106

Mrs. Jno B. Gordon . 113

Miss Carrie Gordon 113

Resolution of thanks to Adjutant General Geo. Moorman .... 47, 87

" Senator John W. Daniel 53, 77 to 78, 81

" Major Gen. John C. Underwood 81, 82

" regarding Historical Committee and on Southern

School History 22, 23, 50, 52, 53, 98 to 99, 106

" regarding pension for Mrs. Davis 22, 50, 101, 102

" " changes in Constitution and By-Laws and

appointment committee. 22, 23, 49, 50, 67 to 69,

103 to 106
" regarding aid and Soldiers' Homes for Confederate

Veterans . . 23, 54

regarding U. C.V. badge or button, 23, 66 to 67, 77, 100, 107
" " graves of Southern soldiers and Memorial

Day 23, 49, 76, 107

" regarding Davis Monument 47, 50, 100

Admiral Raphael Semmes 49, 69 to 70

" " duties of Adjutant General 97

" " visit to grave of Jefferson Davis. ....... 97, 98

" " purchase Jefferson Davis' History of the

" Confederate States 99

u regarding certificates for members of XJ. C. V 99

" " custody of relics and historian 99

" " visiting Columbian Exposition at Chicago

102, 103

" regarding date nest Reunion 110, 111

" " Louisiana Soldiers' Home Ill

death of Gen. Rob't Ransom 112, 113

" " Maimed and Helpless Soldiers and their

Widows 23, 54

Nomination Gen. J. B. Gordon 107 to 109

Lieut. Gens. "W. L. Cabell and E. Kirby Smith 109

ORGANIZATION

OF THE

United Confederate Veterans,

WITH NAMES OF COMMANDERS.

THEIR ADJUTANT GENERALS AND ADDRESSES.

ALSO BRIGADIER GENERALS.

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

General JNO. B. GORDON, General Commanding, Atlanta, Ga.
Major General GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. New-
Orleans, La.

DIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST.

Major General JNO. C. UNDERWOOD, Commander, Chicago, 111.
Col. SAM'L BAKER, Chief of Staff, Chicago, 111.

DEPARTMENT EAST OP THE MISSISSIPPI.

Lieut-General E. KIRBY SMITH, Commander, Sewanee, Tenn
Brig. General WRIGHT SCHAUMBURG, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff,
New Orleans, La.

Maryland Division.
Major General GEO. H. STEWART, Commander, Baltimore, Md.

Virginia Division.
Major General THOS. A. BRANDER, Commander, Richmond, Va.
Col. JOS. V. BIDGOOD, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Richmond, Va.
Brig. General T. S. GARNETT.
Brig. General MICAJAH WOODS.

North Carolina Division.

Major General E. D. HALL, Commander, Wilmington, N. C.

Col. JUNIUS DAVIS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Wilmington, N. C.

Brig. General RUFUS BARRINGER, Charlotte, N. C.

Brig. General W. P. ROBERTS, Gatesville, N. C.

South Carolina Division.

Major General ELLISON CAPERS, Commander, Columbia, S. C.

Col. THOS. S. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Columbia, S. C.

Brig. General JOHN BRATTON, Winnsboro, S. C.

Brig. General STANLEY S. CRITTENDEN, Greenville, S. C.

Florida Division.

Major General J. J. DICKISON, Commander, Ocala, Fla.

Col'. FRED. L. ROBERTSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Brooks-
Brig. General GEO. REESE, Pensacola, Fla. ville, Fla
Brig. General JOHN M. MARTIN, Ocala, Fla.
Brig. General S. G. FRENCH, Winter Park, Fla.

Georgia Division.
Major General P. M. B. YOUNG, Commander, Cartersville, Ga.

Alabama Division.

Major General J. T. HOLTZCLAW, Commander, Montgomery, Ala.

Louisiana Division.

Major General JNO. GLYNN, Jr., Commander, New Orleans, La. '

Col. W. R. LYMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, New Orleans, La.

Mississippi Division.

Major General S. D. LEE, Commander, Starkville, Miss .

Col. E. T. SYKE8, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Columbus, Miss.

Brig. General ROBERT LOWRY, Jackson, Miss.

Brig, General J. R. BINFORD, Duck Hill, Miss.

6 Organization*

Tennessee Division.
Major General W. H. JACKSON, Commander, Nashville, Tenn.
Col. JNO. P. HICKMA.N, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Nashville, Ten*.
Brig. General GEO. W. GORDON, Memphis, Tenn.
Brig. General L. E. POLK, Columbia, Tenn.

Kentucky Division,
Major General JNO. BOYD, Commander, Lexington, Ky.
Col. JOSEPH M. JONES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Paris, Ky.
Brig. General W. G. BULLITT, Paducah, Ky.

TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT.

Lieut. General W. L CABELL, Commander, Dallas, Texas.

Brig. General W.L.THOMPSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Dallas, Tex.

Northeastern Texas Division.
Major General W. N. BUSH, Commander, MeKinney, Texas.
Col. J. M. PEARSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, MeKinney, Texas.

Northwestern Texas Division.
Major General RICHARD OOBB, Commander, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Col. WILLIAM PARKE SKEENE, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff,

Wichita Falls, Texas.
Brig. General JOSEPHU BENEDICT, Graham, Texas.
Brig. General W. B. PLEMMONS, Amarillo, Texas,

Southeastern Texas Division.
Major General W. G. BLAIN. Commander, Fairfield, Texas.
Col. THOS. J. GIBSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Mexia, Texas.
Brig. General H. H. BOONE Navasota, Texas.
Brig. General D. H. NUNN, Crockett, Texas.

Southwestern Texas Division.
Major General W. H. YOUNG, Commander, San Antonio, Texas. ,
Col. D. M. POOR, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, San Antonio, Texas.
Brig. General HAMILTON P. BEE. San Antonio, Texas.
Brig. General THOS. W. DODD, Laredo, Texas.

Western Texas Division.
Major General E. M. BEAN, Commander, Cameron, Texas.

Col. W. M. McGREGOR, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Cameron, Texas.
Brig. General H. E. SHELLEY, Austin, Texas.
Brig. General ROBERT DONNELL, Meridian, Texas.

Arkansas Division,

Major General BEN. T. DuVAL, Commander, Fort Smith, Ark.
Col. R. M. FRY, Adjutant. General and Chief of Staff, Fort Smith, Ark.
Brig. General ROBERT H. CROCKETT, Stuttgart, Ark.
Brig. General J. M. BOHART. Bentonville, Ark.

Missouri Division.
Major General J. 0. SHELBY, Commander, Adrian, Mo,

Indian Territory Division.
Major General N. P. GUY, Commander. McAlester, Indian Ter.
Col. R. B. COLM AN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff', McAlester , Indian, Ter.
Brig. General JOHN L. GALT, Ardmore, Indian Ter.
Brig. General D. M. HALEY, Krebs, Indian Ter.

Oklahoma Division.
Major General SAM. T. LEAYY, Commander, Norman, Okla Ter.

[official.] GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff',

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No. 3 now General Le Roy Stafford was Shreveport Vet. Asso'n.

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" 67 " Granbury " Camp Hood.

" 75 " Albert Sidney Johnston " Beamont.

" 90 " Mildred Lee " Grayson Co. Texas.

" 134 " Gen. J. W. Starnes * Jno. L. McEwen.

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Total

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District of Columbia 1

Total 188

[official.] GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Following is the regulation badge or button, adopted
by the United Confederate Veteran Association, at the
Reunion held at Jackson, Miss., June 2nd, 1891.

See page 5 of Minutes of that meeting for infor-
mation and details.

Which can be worn on the lapel of the coat, by every
Veteran, who is a member in good standing of a Camp in
the United Confederate organization.

[NOTE. — No change has yet been made in the badge under the resolution
named on pages 66 and 67 of this book. All communications relating to
badges, buttons or pins must be addressed to Gen. J. F. Shipp, Quartermaster
Gen'l U. C. Vs. at Chattanooga, Tenn. He will furnish them upon a requis-
ition made upon him by the Camp Commander, adjutant or Secretary or Quart-
ermaster, at the following prices: gold plated thirty-five cents and solid gold^at
one dollar each. No department fee charged as heretofore, prices named cover
the total cost of the badge.

Camps ordering can forward money with the requisition, or the badgfs
will be sent by express C. 0. D.]

[NOTE. — As there is apparent conflict between resolutions on pages 77
and 107, as to ladies wearing the badge; this matter will necessarily remain as
now in force, only members of the U. C. V. in good standing to wear the badge,
until the question is conclusively settled at the next Reunion.

Adjutant General.]

official GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

t»rooe:e:x>iin<:^!S

OF THE

Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

OF THE

United. Confederate Veterans,

HELD AT

New Orleans, La., April 8th and 9th, 1892.

The Third Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Vet-
erans, assembled at Washington Artillery Hall, New Orleans, La.,
on April 8th, at 10:30 a. m., with one hundred and seventy-two
camps represented, of which one hundred and sixty-one were regis-
tered.

At 10:45, Gen. Gordon, accompanied by his staff, Lieut. Gen.
W. L. Cabell, and other distinguished gentlemen, walked through
the open ranks of the assembled veterans and took seats on the
platform amidst deafening and prolonged applause. A few minutes
later Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith appeared and was received with
hearty cheers.

Then the band played "Dixie," and the ''rebel yell" which
greeted the first few strains shook the house until the rafters gave
back answering echoes after the cheering had ceased.

In the centre of the large platform, arranged in the rear of
the spacious building sat Gen. Jno. B. Gordon; Commander in Chief;
on his right was seated Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, commanding
Department East of the Mississippi, while on his left was seated
Lieut. Gen. W. L. Cabell, commanding Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment, each with their respective staff immediately surrounding
them.

Also upon the platform was seated Lieut. Gen. Stephen D.
Lee, Major Gen. Wm. H. Jackson, Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Gen. T.
N. Waul, of Texas, Major Gen. J. J Dickison, of Florida, Rev. Dr.
Thos. R. Markham and other distinguished gentlemen.

Major Gen. W. J. Behan, representing the Louisiana Division,
in a few well chosen words called the meeting to order, and then
extended the hospitality of the city in the following address.

14 Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

"•Comrades — The honor of calling this convention together
has devolved upon me, and on the part of the Louisiana Division of
the United Confederate Veterans, I am pleased to welcome you to our
camping ground, and hope you will carry off to your distant homes
only pleasant recollections of this Reunion. [Applause.] Providence
also joins us in giving you a welcome, for we have one of the most
beautiful days that this beautiful climate can give. [Applause.]

"We hope to have your kindest attention and hearty assistance
in the duties before us, and shall strive to make those duties as
short as possible.

"There are many things to be done within to-day and to-
morrow, and as it is known that many of you have come a great
distance, you will want to go through your work as rapidly as pos-
sible, so that you can return as promptly as possible.

"We have here the Mayor of New Orleans, who will give you
a welcome to the municipality over which he presides, but before
he shall address you the chaplain- general, Rev. Dr. Thos. R. Mark-
ham, who is first in order, will open the convention with prayer.'
[Applause.]

Chaplain General Thos. R. Markham then offered the follow-
ing prayer:

"Oh, Lord, our Lord, whose name is excellent in all the earth
and who has set thy glory above the heavens. Thou doest thy will
in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth, and
none can stay thy hand or say unto thee what doest thou ? Thou
stillest the noise of the seas, tbe noise of their waves and the tu-
mults of the people. And while, as to man, one generation goeth
and another cometh, and there is none abiding, thy dominion is an
everlasting dominion, and thy kingdom from generation to genera-
tion. And while we do fade as a leaf and fall before the moth, thou
art the same and thy years shall not fail.

"And as, to thee, we give adoration and homage, for to thee
belongeth power. We rejoice and give thanks that to thee also be-
longeth mercy, for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
For knowing our frame and remembering that we are dust, thou
considerest the imperfections of our endeavors. Therefore, would
we ever fall into the hand of thy forbearing judgment and not into
the hands of man; for, like as a father pitieth his children, so thou
pitiest them that fear thee, and judgest them by the Tightness of
their aim and trueness of their purpose, whatever their errors in
spirit or act or their sins of omission or commission.

"And looking back to that time, which, in our reunions, lives
again, having in them its annual resurrections, its re-embodiment
and renewal in our persons, we, thy servants, (and are not all thy
servants the servants of thy will?) who were then constiained to say
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, oh, God of Israel,
the Saviour* can now say^ It is the glory of God to conceal lca thing.
For now, though, here, "we see through a glass darkly," yet; as,

of the United Confederate Veterans. 15

of oM, thou didst make known thy way to Moses and thine acts to
the Children of Israel, so, to-day, through us, in thy dealings with
us, in that past so dear and so sacred, in its records, its traditions and
its memories, thy way is made known upon the earth and thy saving
health among all nations.

"To day, recalling that hallowed past, we give thanks that thou
gavest to this Southern land brave men and true women, whose devo-
tion to duty, country and the right makes the memory of that coun-
try, our Confedera y, so ennobling a legacy. We thank thee for its
principles, its precepts and its examples. We give thanks that its
people came through the fire of trial, as fine gold purified by the
flame.

'•May our tongues cleave to the roofs of our months if]we ever
forget to make mention of their testimony to truth and righteousness.
And may our children and our children's children, in all their gener-
ations, revere their names, their virtues and their valor, and keep green
the memories of their high spirit, their brave words and heroic deeds.

"Make their lives our inspirations, and make us true scions of
such a stock, so, that, if called upon, as they, to lay life, fortune and
sacred honor" on altars of consecration and sacrifice, we and those
who come after us, in their successive generations, may show that the
same fire kindles their souls, the same blood courses through their
veins, the same pulse throbs in their hearts.

"And as recollections sweet, tender and sad mingle with memo-
ries inspiring and exalting, and as there come to us "voices from the
tomb sweeter than song, and a remembrance of the dead to which we
turn even from the charms of the living," may our love keep fresh and
green, the recollections of comrades, whose forms, buried on their
fields of honor, await the sounding of that trump, that shall waken
them to life in the fields of glory.

''And grant, now, we beseech thee, thy blessing upon this assem-
bly of United Confederate Veterans. As we have come together, as we
trust, with one mind and one heart, to honor the past, to be true to the
present to get wisdom for the future, we ask of thee to give us the spirit
of counsel and of understanding. So endue us with wisdom from on
high that, our deliberations and decisions, overruled by thy provi-
dence, may result in good, not only to our own part of this broad
land, but be co-workers for good to our entire country. May our acts
and those of like re-unions that shall follow, as we trust, to our remot-
est generations, prove fellow helpers, in enabling comrades of the
North and comrades of the South and their posterity to dwell togeth-
er, as citizens of the same country and descendants of a common an-
cestry, in a spii it of amity and unity.

"And to thy gi eat, name, the God from whom cometh down every
good and perfect gift, to whom we look for the forgiveness of our
sins, the renewing of our hearts, and the implanting of the hope of
eternal life, to the name of God the Father, God the Sun and God the
Holy Ghost; be the praise, now and evermore, Amen J"

16 Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

Gen. "Wright Schauniburg; Adjutant General to Lt. Gen. E.
Kirby Smith, commanding the Department East of the Mississippi,
here called the attention of the chair to a delegation of Virginians,
who were present without being regularly accredited delegates, and
moved "that they be tendered the courtesies of the floor." So ordered,
and Gen. Schaumburg was appointed a committee of one to escort the
Virginians to seats of honor, and they were placed nearest the plat-
form.

Gen. Cabell said that there were fully one-half of his (Texas)
delegation who were unable to get seats on the floor of the conven-
tion, and he asked that accommodations be given them.

It was explained that the space allotted to the Texas delega-
tion was found to be inadequate, but that the additional room would
be provided at once, which was done.

Major Gen. Behau then introduced Hon. Jos. A. Shakspeare,
Mayor of New Orleans, amid deafening applause.

Mayor Shakspeare said:

"Comrades : — It is my great pleasure to extend to you the hos-
pitality of the city of New Orleans. That you are always welcome in
New Orleans, goes without saying, but it is my happy privilege to
extend to you a double welcome to-day. [Applause.]

"The bond of sympathy is explained when it is recalled that
scarcely a battle was fought in the Confederacy in which Louisianians
did not share an equal part with the brave, true soldiers of other
States. [Applause.]

" I do not feel that I can greet you as strangers, but as one of
our own family and hope that you will meet us in the same friendly
spirit as brothers. [Applause.]

"Again I tender you the hospitality of the city of New Orleans
and her generous hearted people, and hope your stay among us may
be characterized with most pleasant happenings " [Applause.]

The chair appointed Comrade Emile J. O'Brien, of Washington
Artillery Camp No. 15, Louisiana Division, sergeant-at-arms, with the
following assistants:

LIST OF SERGEANT-A/T-ARMS.

Washington Artillery Camp No. 15 — H. H. Baker, J. 4. Blaffer, J.
B. Grayson, P. B. Lynch, Jno. M. Watson.

Association Army of Tennessee Camp No. 2 — Fendell Horn, Richard
McCarthy, P. O. Guerin, Wm. H. Wright, Peter C. Gaffney, Mar-
tin A. Alleyn.

Henry St. Paul Camp No. 16— B. A. Barosse, Dennis Sullivan, Don
Castro, James Lally.

Veteran Confederate Cavalry Association Camp No. 9 — Edward Har-
rison, J. W. Carnahan, Louis Lamb, Jno. T. Shearer, W. A. Stewart.

Army of Northern Virginia Camp No. 1 — E. Borland, T. S. Barton,
Jno. T. Purvis, Jos. Maes, R, Fletcher.

Iberville Camp No. 18 — Chas. A. Brusle.

of the United Confederate Veterans. 17

The Sergeant-at-Arms were directed to seat the Veterans, as spe-
cially designated by the location of their State bannerets, and as ar-
ranged by the local committee.

The chair then introduced the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. John
B. Gordon, who was greeted with the wildest cheering and applause,
and who received an ovation which has rarely if ever been equaled.
When order had been restored, Gen. Gordon addressed the convention
as follows:

"General Behan, Mr. Mayor, Comrades and Fellow-Countrymen of
Louisiana — Two thoughts impress me as I stand in this presence —
the abounding wealth of kindness and affection exhibited by this glo-
rious people, and the utter poverty of words to express our apprecia-
tion. How shall we interpret to New Orleans and Louisiana the
response made by our grateful hearts for this splendid reception.
[Applause.]

"Here, in this progressive, commercial mart, gathered from far-
off cities towns and villages, from humble homes and farms; from cat-
tle ranches and sheep walks of Texas; from red hills and black prai-
ries and green pineries of the South, are the grizzled veterans of that
once invincible and ever-immortal Confederate army. [Applause.]

"What means these honors to the shattered fragments of those
mighty legions which once in the white smoke of the battle followed the
plumes of Lee [applause], of the Johnstons, of Hood, of Forrest and of
Jackson? [Applause.] There can be nothing of self-interest or of self-
seeking in this demonstration. These gray haired soldiers of the sixties
have brought to your midst neither merchandise, nor gifts, nor prod-
ucts to barter. They are too poor in this world's goods to excite cu-
pidity or to arouse the hope of avarice. Neither are they the dis-
pensers of political patronage to the subservient or ambitious. The
very government to whose fortunes they gave their unpurchased alle-
gience is no more. [Applause.] The flag which they so often bore
to apparently impossible victory has been furled forever. [Applause.]
The cause of separate national existence which they so loyally loved
and so grandly defended lives now only as a memory. [Applause.]
The old order has passed and a new era has come. Blended now in
one common citizenship and in one American brotherhood are the
brave veterans of both those vast armies which once met and grap-
pled each other in deadly combat, now and forever united in the en-
nobling pursuits of peace, and with their faces turned to the promis-
ing and pregnant future, they are resolved by their joint efforts to
achieve for their common country a destiny higher and grander, if
possible, than was ever anticipated or even hoped for by the founders
of the republic. [Cheers.]

"The highest, the sole political ambition of these disbanded
veterans of the Confederacy is to promote the welfare of their com-
monwealth, and to see this union of co-equal States progressive, pros-
perous, perpetual and forever free. [Applause.]

18 Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

"What reasons therefore for these distinctive and special honors
paid to these disbanded men — honors as generous, as spontaneous
and royal as were ever accorded even in the hour of glory and tri-
umph to conquering armies? [Applause.]

"There is, there can be but one explanation. It is the volun-
tary tribute of noble natures to the noblest of human passions. [Ap-
plause.] It is patriotism's offering to that band of unpaid patriots
whose record for courage, for constancy, for consistency and consecra-
tion has never been surpassed, if ever equalled, either iu the annals
of peace or of war. [Applause.] It is the response, the rapturous
response made by New Orleans and Louisiana to the question: 'What
think you of the Confederate soldier, of his services, his valor and
his devotion to principle V [Applause.]

"I cannot say that I am surprised at the warmth, the depth and
cordiality of this welcome, however unexpected and astonishing the
extent and spontaneity and brilliancy of its exhibition. [Applause.]

"When in our last convention at Jackson the name of New Or-
leans was proposed as the place for this reunion, every competitor
bowed before the superiority of her claims. [Applause.] Her leader-
ship in the organization of our general brotherhood, her boundless
hospitality, not less recognized and appreciated by all Americans than
are her annual and splendid and unparelleled pageants; her superb
record in every epoch of our country's history proclaimed her at once
not only the worthy metropolis of this great State, but the ideal city
of the soldier and the pride of the South. [Applause.]

"But we are indebted not only to New Orleans, my comrades,
but to Louisiana for this splendid greeting. And if there be in this
sisterhood or States one name which can with truth be declared the
very synonym of patriotism, that one is the name of Louisiana.
[Cheers.] Before Jefferson had penned or our fathers had affixed
their signatures to our immortal Declaration of Independence; before
Boston had recorded in patriotic blood at Bunker Hill her ever mem-
orable protest; before Henry had spoken or one blow had been struck
for colonial freedom, the liberty loving representatives of Louisiana's
parishes in convention assembled had issued their proclamation, which
was equivalent to a declaration of independence. [Applause.]

"With historic accuracy and noteworthy justice America's great
historian, the gifted Bancroft, has left upon record this splendid trib-
ute to Louisiana, that here upon the banks of the Mississippi the flag
of the republic was first unfurled on this continent. [Applause.]

"It mattered not whether Louisiana's allegiance was due to
France or to America; it mattered not whether the flag she defended
was the stars and stripes of the Union or the flaming cross of the Con-
federacy [applause] ; it mattered not whether she was called to aid
her Southern sisters in 1861, or later to endure with unexampled
heroism the hardships and humiliations of conquest and of capture,
or still later after the war to revolt in recognition of her duty to pos-
terity against the imposition and, usurpations of a government not of

of the United Confederate Veterans. 19

her choosing and to shed her blood like water in these streets during
the cruel crucifixion of reconstruction: whatever her fate or surround-
ings in all the dire emergencies of her history, her lofty spirit has
risen to the supremest heights of duty's demand. [Applause.]

"Beautiful, delightful New Orleans ! Proud and glorious Lou-
isiana ! We who have known, and loved, and honored you in the past,
we, who are the living witnesses of your heroic sacrifices for freedom,
we who are proud to claim kindred with such a people, bring to you
the affectionate offering of your sister States, and lay at your feet the
tributes of our grateful hearts." [Great and prolonged applause.]

During the delivery of Gen. Gordon's address, Lieut. Gen.
Longstreet entered the hall and at his own request he made his way
unannounced by the side entrance to prevent any interruption at that
moment. He was quietly and unobtrusively shown to a seat upon the
platform, with the other distinguished guests, and subsequently was
greeted cordially by Gen. Gordon, and all present, and received a
grand ovation from the old veterans.

The ceremonies preliminary to the reception of the veterans
having been concluded, Gen. Gordon addressed the assemblage as
follows:

"Comrades, the Third Annual Reunion of the United Confed-
erate Veterans will now come to order and the proceedings of the
convention will be conducted under the ordinary rules that pertain
to parliamentary bodies. The Adjutant General will state what he
now has for the pleasure of the convention."

Adjutant General Geo. Moorman was assisted by Gen. J. A.
Chalaron, of Louisiana, and Gen. D. R. Gurley, of Texas, as assist-
ant Adjutant Generals and appointed Major E. T. Manning as his
efficient reading and minute clerk, and Miss A. C. Childress as steno-
grapher of the convention.

A motion was put and carried authorizing the chair to ap-
point two committees, of five each, one on credentials and the other
on the order of business.

Gen. Wright Schaumburg moved that a committee of one
from each State represented should be chosen by the delegates from
the States to constitute a committee on resolutions, to which com-
mittee should be referred all resolutions submitted to the con-
vention.

As an amendment it was moved by Gen. W. L. Thompson, of
Texas, that the portion of the committee from the Trans-Mississippi
Department should be appointed by Gen. Cabell, because of the
inconvenience of getting delegates together, which was carried.

Gen. Cabell here arose and briefly stated that he was unwill-
ing to assume the authority vested, but decidedly preferred Texas
should make use of its right and select its own representatives on
the committee on resolutions, which met with the chair's approval.

Capt. R. B. Coleman, as the representative of the Jeff Davis
Camp, McAlester, Indian Territory, further moved to amend Gen.

20 Third Annual Meeting and Reuniori

Schaumburg's motion so as to include the four civilized nations of
Indians on the committee. This also was adopted.

Brig. Gen. J. A. Chalaron moved a further amendment that
the Division of the Northwest be included in the committees. The
original motion as offered by Gen. Schaumburg, with amendments,
was adopted.

Gen. Gordon, having previously announced that as soon as
each State had made its selection the name of the representative
chosen should be sent up to the chair for announcement to the con-
vention, which instructions having been complied with, the Adju-
tant General read as follows:

Committee on Credentials — Major Gen. John C. Underwood
(commanding Division of the Northwest), chairman; Col. E. M.
Hudson, of Louisiana, Gen. W. M. Thompson, of Texas, Col. J. P.
Hickman, of Tennessee, Col. Fred. L. Robertson, of Florida.

(Col. E. M. Hudson, was appointed chairman, he declined
the chairmanship, when Gen. John C. Underwood was unanimously
selected by the members of the committee to fill that position. )

Committee on Order of Business — Gen. B. F. Jonas, of Louisi-
ana, Gen. A. T. Watts, of Texas, Gen. W. H. Jackson, of Tennessee,
Gen. W. L. Calhoun, of Georgia, Gen. Jos. R. Davis, of Mississippi.

Committee on Resolutions — Gen. T. N. "Waul, of Texas, chair-
man; Col. J. M. Harrell, of Arkansas, Gen. Rufus Barringer, of North
Carolina, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of Mississippi, Capt. Jno. L. Gait, of
Indian Territory, Capt. Jos. F. Johnston, of Alabama, Capt. Geo. B.
Guild, of Tennessee, Gen. Wm. Miller, of Florida, Judge W. L. De-
laney, of Kentucky, Gen. Jno. Glynn, Jr., of Louisiana, Major
Gen. John C. Underword, Division of the Northwest, Gen. W. L.
Calhoun, of Georgia.

Gen. J. F. Shipp, of N. B. Forrest Camp, Tennessee, moved that
the chairman of each delegation present should present their ci*e-
dentials to the Committee on Credentials for verification, and so
expedite matters.

Gen. Cabell moved that the adjutant general of each com-
mand be requested to furnish the names of their respective camps
to the Committee on Credentials.

A short recess was ordered. On reassembling the chair said:

"I take great pleasure in announcing and introducing Major
General Geo. Stuart, commanding Division of Maryland, to have
him participate in the proceedings of this meeting, and I want to say
for him Ijhat he is worthy of the highest seat you have in your
hearts."

Cries of "Stuart I" "Stuart!" filled the air as he went forward
and took his place on the platform.

"The chair also has the pleasure to announce the presence of
Major General Richard Hoke, commanding Division of North Car-
olina, the "Tar Heel State," and Major General Ellison Capers, com-

of the U7iited Confederate Veterans. 21

manding Division of South Carolina, who are cordially invited to
seats on the platform."

The major generals named mounted the platform besides the
chairman amidst the wildest enthusiasm. When order was restored,
the chair proceeded with the regular order of business. Gen. J. F.
Shipp again reverted to the importance of the chairmau of each
delegation furnishing the credentials from each State to the Com-
mittee on Credentials to facilitate the intelligent action of that body.

Gen. Cabell differed somewhat with Gen. Shipp, as many of
the camps had not qualified neither in bringing their dues with
them, nor in sending them within the limited time since their appli-
cation had been forwarded, on account of the remoteness of their
location. The very fact of the camps having sent representatives
should be sufficient evidence of the sincerity of their purpose and
they would answer to their call just as they had always come up to
the scratch during the Avar. If their credentials were not here it
was because they could not get here. He deemed it advisable for
the adjutant general of each State to furnish the names of the
camps under his jurisdiction to the Committee on Credentials.

The chairman of the credential committee announced that
Gen.Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General of the United Confederate Vet-
erans, had a list of credentials which had been furnished to him, and
that the lists as turned over by him to the committee would be care-
fully examined, which lists were complete in so far as they con-
tained the name of every camp and the number of delegates allowed,
and conformed to the written law of the constitution.

Gen. Cabell again suggested the propriety of a list of dele-
gates from each Camp being furnished to the committee by the
adjutant general of each division, thus enabling those camps whose
credentials had not reached Gen. Moorman, the Adjutant General of
the United Confederate Veterans, by course of mail to secure their
franchise .

Gen. J. F. Shipp, commander N. B. Forrest Camp, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. moved, as a substitute: That in cases where credentials
had not been presented to Gen. Moorman, the Adjutant General, that
the chairmen of the several delegations be authorized to present
them to the Committee on Credentials."

Gen. Cabell thought that the substitute would more fully
cover his motion, which he withdrew, and the substitute was adopted.

All pertinent matter in the hands of the Adjutant General was
handed the chairman of the Committee on Credentials, when execu-
tive session was immediately commenced in an adjoining room.

The Committee on Resolutions, after admonition from the
chair as to the gravity of their duties, adjourned to assume the obli-
gations imposed.

The chair then announced that all resolutions must first be
sent to the desk to be read to the convention and then formally
referred to the committee.

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Gen. J. A. Chalaron introduced a resolution on behalf of the
Louisiana Divivision, U. C. V., looking to the preservation of our
history, written by a committee, giving an impartial account of our
great struggle; to be used in instructing the youths of the South.
(This resolution was made verbally, the written form having been
mislaid, and Gen. Chalaron requested permission to hand it in when
found.)

The chair, in placing the foregoing resolution before the
convention, expressed the greatest satisfaction that such an impor-
tant factor in the perpetuation of the name and great sacrifices made
by the noble people of the South should have been introduced to
the serious consideration of this assemblage, and though not form-
ally placed before it, strongly recommended that it also go to the
Committee on Resolutions for action, which was so ordered.

The chair remarked that it was a great pleasure to an-
nounce to the United Confederate Veterans that [the camps from
Alabama in convention assembled, had unanimously elected as their
major general for the State of Alabama, Gen. J. T. Holtzclaw.

The following resolutions were read and referred to the Com-
mittee on Resolutions:

By comrade Gen. Geo. W. Gordon, of Tennessee: Resolution
requesting the chairman of this convention to designate one person
from each of the States and territories, etc., represented, whose duty
it shall be to memoralize the several governors and legislatures to
grant to Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis a pension during her lifetime, etc.

It was, however, deemed expedient, so as to be in proper shape
for presentation to the legislatures of the various States, that said
resolution be referred to the Committee on Resolutions, which amend-
ment was offered by comrade Smith, of Alabama. An additional amend-
ment was made to pass the resolution simply as the sense of the meet-
ing, and then refer it to the Committee on Resolutions for any altera-
tions that might be deemed necessary. '

Gen. Jos. R. Davis, of Mississippi, as a delegate from the
State which had been the home of ex-President Davis, moved to sus-
tain the resolution by a standing vote; the latter motion was put and
carried amidst the wildest enthusiasm, after which it was referred to
the committee for revision.

The pleasure of the convention was made apparent in a resolu-
tion to send a copy of the foregoing, with amendments, to each gov-
ernor of the States named, with a request that he submit it to the
legislature with his endorsement. Adopted unanimously.

Bv Major Gen. John Glynn, Jr., on behalf of the Louisiana
Division, U. C. V., Camp No. 2, and its adoption recommended by said
camp, providing for the appointment of a Committee on Constitution
to remedy certain defects, perfect a new constitution and by-laws, and
to better organize and perpetuate the U. C. V. Association.

By Major Gen. John Glynn, Jr., on behalf -of the Louisiana
Division, Camp No. 2, U. C. V., with their approval, amending Article

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2 of the Constitution, authorizing the appointment of Brigadier Gen-
erals whenever necessary; Article 5, relative to dues; Article 3, rela-
tive to limiting each member to representation from one camp only.

Resolution was offered by Mr. Robert Campbell, of Yazoo,
City Camp, (which was submitted through courtesy as he was not a
delegate,) asking an address or petition be sent to the governors of
all the Southern States and Territories, providing for the passage of an
appropriation for the maintenance of an Institute for Confederate Vet-
erans, and that a committee of thirteen be appointed to formulate such
address or petition.

Comrade W. T. Cluverius,of Louisiana, submitted a resolution
for the changing and altering of the present badge of the United Con-
federate Veterans. He asked that it be reduced in size one-sixteenth
of an inch, and that the letters "U. C. V." be inscribed upon it, and
that as altered and changed the badge be registered in the office of the
Librarian at Washington, D. C. The resolution was prompted because
of the vast imitations of the badge as now worn.

A resolution was submitted by comrade H. L. Bentley, of Abi-
lene Camp, Texas, to make some changes in the constitution, which
latter motion the chair turned over to the Committee on Resolutions
without being read to the convention.

Comrade \V. H. Brooker, of Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, of
San Antonio, Texas introduced a resolution requesting the general
commanding to appoint eleven ladies in Southern States to look after
the graves of our heroes who lie in northern soil, and to devise
ways and means to embellish these sacred spots, and to raise suitable
monuments over their dust, and to otherwise perpetuate the memories
of those "unreturning braves."

By comrade W. H. Brooker, resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of a Committee on Statistics and History for the collection,
compilation and publication of the true record of Confederate soldiers
enlisted in the late war.

By comrade W. D. Chipley, of Camp Ward, Confederate Vete-
rans of Florida, resolution providing for the appointment of a com-
mittee to select a proper and truthful history for use in the public
schools in the South.

Here Gen. Gordon stated that the time had arrived for the vet-
erans to form in line and march to the French Opera house, where
the Hon. Jno. W. Daniel, the orator of the flay, would deliver the an-
nual oration. It was further announced that the convention would
reassemble at 7:30 p. m., when the report of the Committee on Creden-
tials and other business of the Association would be considered and
acted upon, and a full attendance was therefore earnestly requested.

The veterans then assembled by delegations on St. Charles
street, according to instructions, and marched four abreast to the
French Opera House, to hear the oration of the Hon. Jno. W. Daniel,
of Virginia.

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[Note. — This master-piece is inserted here in the proceedings in the order
in which it was delivered, as it should he in the possession of every camp, of every
veteran, and will be preserved as one of the most cherished household treasures
of every Southern home. — Adjutant General.]

ORATION OF SENATOR DANIEL.

Gen Gordon then introduced the orator of the day, as follows:

"Ladies, Comrades, my Confederate Countrymen — The delightful
experiences which have stirred the tenderest and profoundest depths
of my sensibilities are now to be heightened and intensified by the
privilege accorded me of introducing to you the glorious representa-
tive of old Virginia. [Applause.] I present to you my friend, your
friend, a superb soldier, a golden-hearted gentlemen, the unrivalled
orator, John W. Daniel, of Virginia."

Who, after an almost unparalleled ovation, spoke as follows:
" Gen, Gordon, comrades, soldiers of the army and navy of the Confed-
erate States and fair ivomen of the South. [Cheers.]

In the Hebrew and Arabian legends concerning Nimrod, "the
mighty hunter" of old, it is recounted that Abraham, the patriarch,
was called before nim, and Nimrod, the King, said unto him:

"Let us worship the fire."

"Rather the water that quenches the fire," said Abraham.

"Well, the water."

"Rather the clouds that carrv the water."

"Well, the clouds."

"Rather the wind that scatters the clouds."

"Well, the wind."

"Rather man, for he withstands the winds," answered Abraham.

It is not as a worshipper of the fire, or of any of the material
elementa and powers of the earth that I have come to meet you here
to-day — you, who were once citizens of a land, soldiers of an army,
that live only in the memories of days that have vanished.

It is rather as the respecter, and lover of my fellow-men — of
you men of the South- — who have withstood the wind; withstood it
when it raged through the flames of battle, and when it moaned over
the wastes of death, devastation and defeat. Man, created but a little
lower than the angels, and reflecting his Maker's image in the majes-
ty of his countenance and the beautiful genius of his mind, is the link
between the earth and the heavens of which he dreams; and if the
patriarch, by successive steps, led the King t® realize his superiority
over the forces of nature and to the contemplation of nature's God, so
have you, once soldiers of the South — so have you made mankind re-
alize your superiority over the caprices of fortune and the decrees of
fate, and your firm reliance in that Providence which holds men and na-
tions in its keeping.

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THE SOUTH SINCE THE WAR.

Brilliant as are the annals of the Southern land, from the days of the
Revolutionary War to the present time, there are no pages in its his-
troy which bespeak the stern, enduring stuff of its manhood and the
beautiful piety of its womanhood as do those which relate to its rising up
from the prostration of civil strife, aDd its restoration to social prosperi-
ty and political liberty. Self-respect indeep adversity, self-containment
under harshest trial; self-assertion under vast discouragement; patient
toil under hard conditions; magnamity under keen exasperation ; faith in
God and His justice, though the heavens fall — these traits have marked
this people; and by their exercise the fires of hatred have been quenched,
the rains that refresh have been gathered, the clouds of goom havebeen
scattered; the storms of evil-fortune have been withstood.

The glory of the Confederate soldier is in the fact that he went
forth from the people's homes to the field of battle, and back to those
homes from the field of battle: that he suffered for a people's cause,
without pay; that he carried a people's standard, without rewards;
and that when all was lost, save honor, he worked as he fought, with
his whole soul, and achieved victories of peace that outshine all the
fields of war.

THE CONFEDERATE STATES IN HISTORY.

The Confederate States of America live only in history.

There they will live forever in the dignity of honest purpose
and high principle, and in the grandeur of heroic sacrifice. They are
resplendent in the virtues of the people that ordained them. They
were made immortal by the brave deeds done for them.

With all the crimes of falsehood that history is guilty of, one
crime it is without capacity to commit — so does human nature rebel
against it — it can never bring stigma, contempt or shame upon a peo-
ple who bravely fight for Liberty and Independence. You, surviving com-
rades, are but a fragment of the band that did this thing: fought for
Liberty and Independence. These words stand upright and alone.
No adjective may prop their firm footing. No epithet can strike them
down.

Some say it is better for maukind in the long run that the South
failed. None but God can tell. Some say it were wiser had it never
attempted to set up for itself. None but God can tell. Whether
for better, whether for worse, that we dared the great enterprise of
making a new nation, such is the merit of Liberty and Independence
that they condone all errors of judgment and glorify all fair deeds
done for their sake. Mankind honors you for two things: first, be-
cause you offered your lives with your faith to your country's cause;
second, because you were honest, honorable, chivalrous and brave. I
greet you with reverence and love. To have stood with yon in the
thin gray line is the proudest memory of my life, to meet you once
again is a joy tender and inexpressible.

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Did I follow my heart's first prompting now, I would recall the
men and incidents of the days we spent together. I see in retro-
spect the Washington Artillery or the Louisiana Guard Artillery go
rattling to the front, and hear again their pealing guns. I see again
the lines of Hayes and Stafford go sweeping by to the charge, and
hear over the rattling musketry their ringing cheers. Did I follow
the bent of the genius of these times I would speak of the material
progress of the South, of its mines and minerals, of its crops and herds,
of its railway systems, its mighty contributions to commerce, and its
multiplying furnaces and factories, bu| I have chosen rather to pay a
tribute to its character and its history.

SOUTHERN CHARACTER AND HISTORY THE SOUTH's GREAT POSSESSIONS.

These are its great possessions. We live in a generation that is so busy
with to-day' spursuits that it thinks but little of yesterday and its les-
sons. But the greatest wealth of the South is not in its material
resources, great as they are. It is in the virtue of its people.

I would not give the memory of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston,
Bragg, Polk, Ewell. Hardee, Breckinridge, Pat Cleburne, Dick Taylor,
Hood, Price, McCullough, Semmes, D. H. and A. P. Hill, Stuart,
Forrest, Morgan, Ashby. I would not give the memories of these dead
warriors and their compeers for all your mines and fields.

I would not give the character and fame of the Confederate
private soldier for the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. I would not for
my own part exchange the fact that I, too, was an humble soldier of my
people for all the gold and silver piled up in the ireasury vaults, for
the proudest crest in the heraldy of knighthood, nor for the grandest
crown that ever sparkled on a monarch's brow.

FOUR YEAl'S.

The Confederate soldier lived, moved and had his being within
the brief space of four years. These four years flame across the sky
of history with the brilliancy of a comet. They were years of undim-
med glory.

There was no Confederate before 1861 and there was none after
1865. The Confederacy marked its boundaries with your bayonets.
It flashed into the family of nations like a sword from its scabbard —
it vanished from the family of nations like a sword returned to its
scabbard. Its birth was registered and its epitaph written in the blood
of the brave. It was born, it lived and it died amidst the roll of
drums, the blast of bugles, the rattle of musketry and the thun-
ders of cannon. Its Constitution was dissolved in the flame of war,
Its flag fell to rise no more. Its institutions perished. When the sun
rose after Appomattox there was a new heaven and a new earth. And
the old South lay dead in majesty.

THE OLD SOUTH .

It lies far off in the bygone years under the cypress
trees and the ivy vines, with a b'mken shaft, vJpdn its {jragic

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tomb. It was a land of true men and modest women. It lay aside
from the great highways, beaten down with the tread of the myriads
following westward the star of empire. On the broad acres of its
plantations were the homes of its people. In groves and fields and by
pure waters were its altars. Its population was not crowded in tene-
ment houses. It had few cities, and of them New Orleans, Richmond,
Mobile, Charlestou and Savannah were the greatest. Commerce and
manufactures had not kept pace with agriculture. It had little or no
shipping. There were but three rolling mills in the entire South, but
agriculture flourished. Cotton, sugar and rice fields, corn, wheat and
tobacco fields were its great resources It had universities, colleges
and schools of high grade. Its scientists were eminent. Its statesmen
were imbued with the philosophies that spring from contemplation.
Its jurists were filled wTith the spirit of equity; its soldiers with the
spirit of patriotism; its people were filled with the high martial
spirit of their race, softened by the spirit of Christianity . Wealth
was more evenly distributed than in most modern nations. There
were few beggars, few millionaires, no monopolists, but many gen-
tlemen. In no land was merit more readily recognized, and in none
was its passage to wealth, to position and distinction less impeded.
Marriage was a sacrament. There were few divorces. Its women
shrank from the avocations of publicity, but they made home lovely,
happy and sacred. Its society possessed elegance, refinement and
dignity. Its public life was but little stained with public scandals.
The incontinence of a public officer was rare, and, when it occurred,
damning. Its men were men counting honor more than life or
riches .

THE ELEVATION OF THE BLACK MAN.

It Juad a peculiar institution, slavery. I will not discuss it
further than to say, that whatever else the war did, it vindicated the
beneficence of the institution to the subject race. Our own race found
the black man a wanderer in the wilderness and gave him a home;
it found him naked and clothed him; it found him a savage, a can-
nibal, and a heathen and it made him a Christian; it found him mut-
tering a gibberish and gave him a language; it found him empty-
minded and it filled him with instruction. When he ceased to bea
slave, so had he been elevated from his barbarous state that he was
declared fit to assume the great prerogatives and responsibilities of
an American citizen . What prouder monument could there be to
the civilization and humanizing genius of a people ?

THE OLD SOUTH AND THE UNION.

The old South had done much for and had gloried in the
Union. The War of the Revolution, the war of 1812 and the war
with Mexico and the Texas revolution had each of them been led by
a Southern general. The fabric of the Union had been woven, as it
were, largely by Southern hands . The territory north of the Ohio
to the great lakes', the territory of J/ouis'iana, stretching to

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Oregon, the territory contained in the acquisition of Texas alto-
gether constituting three-fourths of the United States, was chiefly
the fruitage of measures framed and deeds done by Southern leaders,
Andrew Lewis, George Rogers Clark, Patrick Henry, Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Winfield
Scott and Zachary Taylor. The genius ol Democracy that filled
the Southern heart was quaffed from the fountain of American
independence and the patriotic traditions that inflamed its fancy
were those of our grand American story.

THE CONFEDEJbATE LAND.

We turn our faces to the past. There arises before us a land
as fair as any that ever dawned on human vision. It stretches from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Its western frontier lays far
in the woods beyond the Mississippi. Its eastern and southern
coast is washed for two thousand miles by the Alantic wave.
Four of the original colonies of Great Britain, which proclaimed
themselves at Philadelphia in 1776 to be free and independent
States are embraced within it — Virginia, North Carolina, South Car-
olina and Georgia. To them are added Tennessee, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Kentucky, Maryland
and Missouri divide between it and its Northern neighbor. On its
map you ruay read the names of Alamance, where American freemen
first defied the power of tue English King before Concord or Bunker
Hill were heard of; of Mecklenberg, where first was sounded the note
of independence before the proclamation of Philadelphia; of Williams-
burg, where the first Democratic convention in America was held and
the first State declared its independence. There, too, you may read
the names of Moultrie, Camden, Cowpens, King's Mountain, Savan-
nah and Charleston. There you may see Yorktown, where Cornwallis
gave up the ghost of conquest, leaving his sword to Washington.
There you may see New Orleans, upon soil which Jefferson negotiated
from the empire of Napoleon to the republic of Washington, where
the fierce Democracy of Tennessee and Kentucky, led by Andrew
Jackson, gave the quietus to the veteran regulars of Great Britain
the same who later won the glories of Waterloo. There at the Alamo
in the Lone Star State, yot may read the grandest epitaph of history,
where

" Sparta had its Messenger — the Alamo had none".

There you may see, too, Benton ville and Appomattox, where valor,
unawed by fate, paid to its flag the last salute and flaunted the colors
of victory over the precipice of surrender.

THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION.

The Constitution of this land had been made in the image of
the Constitution of the United States. But it contained some im-
provements. It represented the advanced thought of a progressive
people, expert in constitution making. There is the same division of
powers, legislative, judicial and executive; the same organization of
Senate and House of Representatives; there is the same reservation of

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powers not delegated to the general government, nor prohibited "to
the States respectively, or to the people." There are the same appor-
tionment of representation and direct taxation by adding to num-
bers three-fifths of other persons, meaning slaves. Tbere are the same
muniments of civil and religious liberty. The ten amendments to the
Constitution of the United States which were framed by Massachu-
setts and subsequently adopted, had been embodied as an integral
part of it. The main differences between it and the Constitution
of the United States were that no bounty could be granted and
no tax levied to foster any branch of industy. No appropria-
tion for internal improvements could be made except aids to navi-
gation, the removals of obstructions from rivers and the improve-
ment of harbors. It was less monarchical than its prototype. The
President could hold office but for six years and was made ineligible
to a second term. It recognized African slavery just as the Consti-
tution of the United States recognized it, and repeats its fugitive
slave law in identical language, but unlike that Constitution it did not
procrastinate the interdiction of the slave trade, but once for all and
forthwith forbade it. It was the freest Constitution that has ever
been adopted by the English speaking race.

THE CONFEDERATE PRINCIPLES AMERICAN.

The Confederate principles were three-fold: first, local self-
government represented by the sovereignty of the State; second,
race purity represented by the sovereignty of the race; third, the
union of States represented by a confederated, union and con-
stitution.

Let all, then, realize and contemplate this fact, that there was
not a single principle appearing in Confederate history that had not
existed, and did not contemporaneously exist, in the Constitution and
history of the United States. The revolution Of the Confederacy did
not dislodge or controvert a single idea or institution that underlay
the independence, the freedom and the constitutional fabric of the
American Union. There was no difference between the Confederate
States and the United States in respect to those things which made
or was the fruit of the revolution of 1776.

The new swarm of bees that comes forth from the old hive
in spring follows the queen bee, and builds its hexagon cells and
stores its honey just like the old hive. The Confederate swarm of
1861 followed its queen bee of independence and built its cells just
like the old rebel swarm of 1776.

THE CONFEDERATE PEOPLE.

The Confederate people were Americans, all— in blood,
in history, in principle, in habitation — descendants for the most part
of the early pioneers and from the purest and gentlest strains of the
English yeomen blood. They discerned the rights of man with as
clear an eye and upheld them with as firm a band as any that ever
dared the wilderness or the wave or the imminent deadly breach to
grasp the fruits of nature or to erect the shrines of conscience.

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The Anglo-Saxon stock in the British isles had been stimulated
and brightened by the blood of the conquering Norman. The En-
glish stock of the South had been invigorated by an infusion of the
sturdy Scotcb-Irish blood, and enlivened and illumined by a strain
from the chivalrous vivacious and polished blood of France.

The painter Turner had painted a picture that seemed to him
too somber. He paused, and then threw upon it a radiant touch of
red, which illumined the canvas. This is what the Norman did for
England and the French for the South.

THE CONFEDERATE WAR WAS A TERRITORIAL QUARREL.

The Confederate war was distinctly a territorial quarrel. The
South wanted a "United States of America," to be named "Confeder-
ate States," to distinguish it from the northern confederacy, and
to consist of Southern States with homogenous institutions; and the
North wanted but one "United States of America," to comprehend
the half continent. The Northern swarm wanted to keep one hive
and the Southern swarm wanted two hives. One or two? This was
the question.

WHY THE CONFEDERATE WAR ?

You ask then, "Why the Confederate war?" "Why did North
and South fall out?" I answer, "African slavery."

Who are responsible for African slavery ? All of our ancestors,
English and American; all of our contemporaries, Northern and
Southern. Not a section, not a country, but a race. The English
enslaved the African in order to profit thereby. Kings and Queens
and Cabinets took stock in the slave trade. South Carolina, Georgia
and Virginia sternly protested against it. Onr Declaration of Inde-
pendence in 1776 made it an accusation against the English cro wn.
Every Northern State and every Southern State then alike yielded to
it. There was no free State when the United States adopted their
Constitution; but slave States organized by it a union of slavery. If
it were wrong all were guilt}', for all put it in the Federal Constitution
and swore to support it, and the fugitive slave law in the Constitution
found its germ in the earlier action of the united colonies of New
England.

HOW SLAVERY PRODUCED WAR.

Slavery produced war because it soon differentiated Northern
and Southern society. The North did not refuse to prolong slavery
for moral reasons: but because, first, it was not profitable in
mechanical labors; second, it competed with free labor; third, the
South wanted free trade, because slavery made it agricultural,
and the North wanted high tariffs, because of its mechanical and
manufacturing conditions. We hear the cry now against com-
petition with the pauper labor of Europe . That cry was antedated
by clamor against competition with the slave labor of the South.
The South had received slavery from the imposition of tyranny; it
continued it from necessity. It knew not what to do with it but

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to keep it; it was, "between the devil and the deep sea." The
slaves were too numerous to transport. Free them and free suffrage
would follow, and with free suffrage race conflict.

EACE PURITY.

Just before the war a citizen of New Orleans wrote a pam-
phlet entitled, "A Separate Nationality vs. The Africanization of the
South," by W. H. Holcombe. It showed how abolition was coming,
and how through it would come from free suffrage, race conflict,
confusion and anarchy. The author lives yet. He has seen every
word of his prophecy fulfilled. The old South had its alternative:
Africanization or a separate Confedeiacy. It drew its sword for in-
dependence and race sovereignty, and so died.

WHAT WILL HISTORY SAY OF US?

"What will they say of us at borne ?" the confederate said to
himself, as be slept at night before the batteries be would charge at
dawn, or saw the long lines come gleaming in. What borne thought
and thinks of him he knows full well, and is content, and yet he asks
now what will history say of us and of tbe confederate cause ?

At Appomattox, when General Lee had resolved to save fur-
ther effusion of blood, and to treat for surrender, one of his attendants
passionately exclaimed: "Oh, general! what will history say of the
surrender of the army in the field?" "Yes, I know," be answered.
"Yes, I know they will say hard things of us; they will not understand
how we were overwhelmed by numbers; but that is not the question,
colonel; the question is, is it right to surrender this army? If it is
right, then I will take all the responsibility."

NO CONFEDERATE TRAITOR.

Just history will say — aye, history has said — there was no
treason in being a confederate. No more loyal hearted people ever
trod the earth than those who bore the confederate arms. The epi-
thet "traitor" was the mere passionate froth of wordy conflict.
Actions speak louder than words. They are the only things that
signify in history. And the United States never at any time treated
the confederates as traitors. It, recognized their belligerent rights.
It exchanged prisoners of war. It deliberately, purposely, wisely
abandoned all effort to prosecute for treason. The federation system
is dual. The citizen could only be a citizen of the United States by
being a citizen of a state. He swore to support the constitution of
his state; and by tbe action of his state became a party to the con-
stitution of the United States. The right to alter or abolish govern-
ment was at the base of state government and of federal government
alike — a fundamental principle to which they both owed their being.
The state could not possiby commit treason. It is a personal act. It
would be absurd to say that the citizen could be bung for treason for
not obeying bis state, which decided one way, and hung for treason if
he did not obey the federal government, the two governments differ-

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ing. If not so, a man would be predestined to be hung anyway if
state and federal government quarreled. This was absurd. The fact
is, until the war it could not be determined whether the paramount
allegiance was due to the central or local power. Our fathers had
left the question open, fearing to attempt to close it. It was a ques-
tion of fact rather than of law, for the law was sileut, and the jury of
nearly three millions of men decided the fact their way according to
the majority of bullets which were made to vote viva voce. And
sometimes I am quite sure they voted very loud.

Daniel Webster in his oration at Bunker Hill declared that
after a revolt has levied a regular army, and fought a pitched battle,
its champions even if defeated cannot be tried and convicted as
traitors. If this be true where technical law is undoubtedly violated,
how must the case stand where the question of technicality is itself
in issue ? Let our two thousand battles give the answer.

LESSONS OF THE CONFEDERACY PEACE.

Your work was not lost, your sacrifice was not vain. You
have taught the world great lessons and have yourselves learned
great lessons. You have taught peace. The iron is melted and then
it is made harder than ever into steel. Peace was broken and then
peace was cemented stronger than before. What England
learned through the battles of eight hundred years were learn-
ed in four years. We do everything in America on a magnificent
scale, and when it is done it is done. With the flash of a sword we
silenced the conflict of eight centuries. You taught peace in making
war, in finding it vain to your ends but turning it to the accomplish-
ment of grand aims for the future of our country and mankind.
War was not inevitable in the possibilities of nature, but it was
inevitable in the possibilities of the generation that made it. The
forces conducing to it had accumulated for generations. Small
minds attribute the war to politicians. The politicians on both sides
went forward because the people pressed them. When the snows
of the Alps are piled up, a whimper may pour the avalanche down the
mountain side. If our race had been wiser, and riper, and greater
they might have settled every issue by the arbitration of council.
The value of all the Southern slaves was not equal to the blood of
one brave soul that perished; but when war became inevitable and
arbitrament could not be reached, then the vindication of charac-
ter was woith the blood of all that perished, and all of us, whether
we be Northern or Southern, can stand to-day upon a higher plane
and contemplate a grander prospect than if we had deferred or sup-
pressed issues when they demanded settlement.

A LESSON OF COMMERCE.

Commerce was the conquerer. It rose in rebellion against
slavery. Commerce is the great nexus of nations— the builder of
union, the organizer of empire. It led Columbus to discover Amer-

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ica, seeking a short passage to the Indies. Commerce freed America
protesting against a tax restriction. The tea thrown into Boston
harbor infused multitudinous seas and all the airs of heaven,
and drunk in by all nations, fills them with desire for unre-
stricted commerce. It is battling to-day in Washington. Moun-
tains and rivers and valleys and oceans are the great politicians of
the universe. When lawyers said that secession was all legal and well
the Mississippi river, the Rocky Mountains, the Alleghanies, the At-
lantic and Pacific oceans, the Mississippi Valley sat in session as a
supreme court and quashed the plea. Commerce was bailiff and cried
come into court. It wanted no custom house between Northern
manufactures and Southern markets. It wanted no barrier between
the grain fields of the Northwest and the delta of the Mississippi.
Not cotton, not slavery, not the Declaration of Independence, not
the Constitution, but commerce was king. It wanted the continent
for its shop, keeping with freedom to buy and sell at all the bargain
counters. Napoleon turned up his lip at the English as a "race of
shopkeepers" before Waterloo, and the shopkeepers turned up their
lips at him at Waterloo. The British soldiers have been the fore-
runners of the English merchant all over the world. The drumbeat
that follows the sunrise is the summons to business.

The clause in our Federal Constitution giving Congress the
power to regulate commerce among the States and foreign nations is
the vetebra of that instrument. Like Aaron's rod it is swallowing
up all the others. It was the rod that swallowed up the Confeder-
acy. It is the rod that now is building levees on the Mississippi
that it may roll onward unvexed to the sea.

IDEAS OPPOSED TO THE CONFEDERACY.

Gen. Robert E. Lee said : "Judge your enemy from his stand-
point if you would be just,'' and again, "God disposes, let this satisfy
us." Shall we not rise to this high plane of equity, and to this great
confidence in him who orders our being? If great ideas underlay
the Confederacy, great ideas also underlay opposition to it, and all
the ideas of the times were American. You were defeated because
you were outnumbered and overweighed, and because the weight of
modern thought brought up the heaviest guns against you. You
were not outgeneraled nor outfought. The tendencies of social
movement are (1) to the equality of man, (2) the consolidation of
States and interests, (3) the integrity of empire and (4) the assimila-
tions of peoples. The syllogisms of logic and the technicalities of
legal pleading take subordinate part in great movements of nations.
Great causations underlie all great events and phrases of exposition
and argument are the mere state costumes for greater things than
they. Nature made a map of a great empire in the territory of the
Union. Our rivers flow from the Rocky Mountains on the one side
and the Alleghanies on the other inward to the Mississippi Valley.
Great oceans sweep around this empire and the Father of Waters

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flowing1, through its centre pours its commerce into the Gulf and the
great ships bear it to the world. The tides of immigration followed
the rivers and poured like them into one great basin and the Missis-
sippi furnished their exit. These tides of immigration, with a race in-
stinct like our own, avoided the South, and moving on shores of
Northern latitude, imbibed Northern jealousy of and antagonism to
African slavery. Nature is indivisible. Race instinct is imperishable.
Slavery was ephemeral . Look up at the stars ! There is no band
around Orion. There are no boundary lines between the constella-
tions Nature made here the mold of Union . Destiny fashioned
into it the plastic clay. God rules amidst the wrecks and ruins of
history. The instincts of men are the tools He works with . "God
disposes, let this satisfy us." We abide His decree.

IDENTITIES OF NORTH AND SOUTH AND THEIR MOVEMENTS.

Underneath local policies, individual interests and transient
conditions, the war disclosed the strong identities of thought and
aspiration and method and custom of the Anglo-American nation.
Probe to the bottom of the Northern heart, and white supremacy
in fields of labor is found to be its stirring, moving, moral animus.
Probe to the bottom of the Southern heart, and white supremacy is
found to be its similar animus . Race followed race instinct on both
sides of Mason and Dixon's line. The Northern scions of the white
race would have no dark rivals in bleeding Kansas and Nebraska,
and no competitors of free labor in the Southern plantations . The
Southern scions of the race feared and fought against the rivalry of
the black race for political power. The same thought was in both
breasts. The political methods were the same. As the American
colonies merged into independence through secession from union
with the British Empire, so the Southern Confederacy merged into
secession from another union with the creeds and words of the
fathers upon its lips. As our British ancestors fought against seces-
sion when interest prompted; so did the North when interest
prompted. When secession was backed by natural influences and
strong powers it won . When it came in contact with the natural
suggestions and the traditional thirst for union, it lost. But while
our forefathers changed the fundamental principles of government
and repudiated ancient dynasties and institutions which had nursed
their infancy, the South changed neither principles of government
nor administrative forms. President and Cabinet and Congress were
on one side, and President and Cabinet and Congress on the other . As
no two people were more alike, and no two impulses to action more
alike; as no two constitutions were more alike, so no two armies
were more alike than those which faced each other during the Con-
federate war. They spoke the same language; they were mainly of
the same people and lineage and antecedents; they loved the same
institutions; they sought for the most part the same laws; they
drilled by the same tactics; they moved by the same evolutions.

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They had the same organization from the General-in-Chief to the
corporal of the guard. They fought pretty much with the same
weapons, and, just between you and me, the most of the weapons
that the old Confederates had were borrowed from Brother Jonathan
— and that, too, behind his back — when he was moving and looking
the other way. In their shirt sleeves no man could have told the
difference between a Union and a Confederate soldier . It was a
family quarrel, between a big brother and a little one, and like most
little brothers we got the worst of it.

A LESSON OF LIBERTY.

You have taught a lesson of liberty. The capacity of a people
for freedom was never more clearly demonstrated. War is autocratic
and monocratic. Government in war runs to despotism. The laws
are said to be silent because war generally has but one law — force.
Our forefathers won liberty by first abandoning liberty for war. They
made Washington a dictator before they made him President, and
then had not France plucked the drowning liberty of America by the
locks, who knows what story might substitute that of Yorktown?

The Confederate States never stooped to conquer. The proud
young republic never condescended to a dictator's sway. Jefferson
Davis never deviated a hair's breadth from the plum line of a consti-
tutional President. They refused to accept compensation for their
slaves from President Lincoln as the price of surrender. This
was because it was not a venal war for property, but a spiritual war for
the ascendency of principle and the purity of blood. They refused
to accept the interference of foreign powers upon the conditions of
abolition for the like reason. They died with heads up, budging not
an inch from their principles, died in the battle line bleeding with a
thousand wounds.

A LESSON OP DEMOCRACY.

You taught a lesson of democracy. The Confederate soldier
was the Confederate citizen, a citizen to the edge of battle, a citizen
again after battle, a citizen even during the battle. You elected your
own officers with voting booths in camps. You had free ballots and
fair counts at the cannon's mouth, pulling lanyards with one hand,
casting ballots with the other. Accomplished in the habitudes of
free men, you were statesmen with muskets, philosophers wielding
sabers, husbandmen on horseback. Democrats, Republicans, approving
the suffiency of our Demcratic methods and our American institutions
for every exigency of war as of peace. Let Kings ponder that war
and cease to prate of the necessity of crowns and scepters. Let the
war lord of Germany who proclaims the King's will the supreme law,
amid anarchical uprisings and standing armies — let him see how a
people can hurl their thunderbolts without war lords and Czars and
Emperors, and how they can turn back to home and shop and plow
and anvil when war is ended.

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Let hereditary aristocracy and corporate monopolists and the
barons of gold — let them behold a land that had no aristocrats, but
only they who were brave and true counted as the best.

Confederate officer and Confederate soldier were but the testa-
ments of that brotherhood which in honor prefers one another. They
ate together, slept together, fought together; the officer led the sol-
dier by the soldier's command, and the soldier followed, needing no
command. Confederates were brothers.

LESSON OF FINANCE.

The war taught a great lesson in finance, and I am candid to
say the Northern statesmen, trained to commercial ideas, surpassed
the Southern in financial genius. Brother Jonathan always was a
keener hand at the game of dollars than Johnny Reb. Finance is an
experimental science, not an exact one, and dollars are such delicate
and weighty things that nations are too timid to experiment, except
under the stress of circumstances. The North invented two things,
the national banks and greenback legal tender notes, which sup-
plied them the sinews of war. The South, under a greater stress of
circumstances, invented neither an efficient banking system nor a
legal tender paper currency. Money is the blood of business. The
North poured its blood into the veins of business and conquered.
We, the South, perished from financial inanition. The North, by its
financial policy, contributed a vast store to the permanent knowledge
of mankind.

The Confederacy never made its dollar a legal tender. The
Confederate note was an orphan. It soon became an outcast. Nations
learn only from experience. Let the future profit by the experience
of the past.

A LESSON OF GENERALSHIP.

The South, I think, surpassed the North in generalship, and it
contributed illustration of two great ideas to military science which
are also added to the permanent store of knowledge of mankind.
First, that cavalry used as mounted riflemen in great bodies are the
efficient agencies of great campaigns. Stuart, Hampton, Forrest,
Ashby, Morgan, Shelby and Wheeler proved themselves not only great
generals upon the field of battle, but great in the larger sense, that they
developed the use of great bodies of horsemen as mounted infantry
in a more efficient manner than ever used before.

The greatest cavalry battles of the war were Brandy Station,
June 9, 1863, where Stuart met Pleasanton. At its close Pleasanton re-
tired, beyond the Rappahannock, and Trevelyan's in June, 1864, where
Hampton with 5000 troopers, bore against Sheridan with 8000, and at
its close Sheridan retired to the White House, giving Hampton
"right of way."

Stuart, the flower of cavaliers, fell at Yellow Tavern, and a na
tion wept to hear that "Harry Hotspur's spur was cold." His soul

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was wafted heavenward upon the sacred accents of that hymn, "Rock
of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee."

Forrest, the "Wizard of the Saddle," oh, what genius was in
that wonderful man ! He felt the field as Blind Tom touches the
keys of a piano. "War means killing," he said, "and the way to kill
is to get the most thar first." There is military science — Napoleon,
Stonewall, Lee and Jomini, in a nutshell. He was not taught at
West Point, but he gave lessons to West Point.

Morgan and Ashby alike died while their swords were bright.
Hampton, thank God, lives yet and the day will never come when the
heart of the Southron shall not thrill to the sound of that glorious
name. Patriot, lofty-minded as any Senator of old Rome. Statesman
pure and just, serene and wise. Soldier and gentleman — every inch
a hero.

Murat and Ney, splendid soldiers as tbey were, are not the
models that the world will hereafter copy. The cavalrymen of the
future will pattern after Stuart^ Hampton and Ashby, of the Army of
Northern Virginia, ^nd after Morgan, Wheeler, and Forrest the
Wizard of the West.

The genius of Lee, a combination of that of Stonewall Jackson
and of Wellington and Marlborough in one, developed the power of
flank attack and of field defense alike. That great commander leaves
three campaigns as marvels of accomplishment and models for study:

1. At Second Manassas, he divided his army and surrounded
Pope with far fewer numbers, mystified him, confused him, blind
folded, and then concentrated, assailed and defeated him.

2. At Chancellorsville he divided an army which was less than
half that in numbers of his adversary, marched one portion of it as if
in grand review down the battle front of that adversary and assailed
him flank and rear, and drove him back across the Rappahannock.

3. The next year he began a battle eleven months long, com-
mencing on the 5th, day of May, 1864, and lying breast to breast
with his enemy until April 9, 1865, succumbed only when he had
worn himself out beating back his fourfold foe. He has left in the
landmarks of our history the map of campaigns which every student
of military science hereafter will peruse with startled and lasting
admiration and instruction. Joseph E. Johnston from Dalton to
Atlanta drew a companion piece for this battle picture worthy of
association with it. Beauregard, the famous engineer of Charleston,
the splendid field officer of Manassas, facing his army from front to
rear and swinging from right to left with ready aptitude, proved that
the leader of American soldiers who has the most confidence in their
ability to meet occasions sudden, is the best reader of their character
and the truest interpreter of the art of war. I might prolong those
scenes and multiply these glorious names, but a glimpse of greatness
is all that time permits.

The genius of Stonewall Jackson demonstrated the power of
infantry to march no less rapidly than cavalry, and that flank and

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rear attacks are the most powerful methods of grand tactics. Jubal
A . Early, who succeeded Jackson, and who from Cold Harbor to
"Washington made the greatest march of the whole Civil War, under-
scored the lesson which Jackson taught; and lost only when four to
one combated him, and his enemy's cavalry alone outnumbered his
entire force-
Gordon — field marshal grand in battle — who started lieuten-
ant and ended Lieutenant General, showed that the General and
the soldier are like the poet, born, not made.

Albert Sidney Johnston — alas ! the bright sun but peeped
over the hills to light the landscape — and then bathing the world in
glory, found Shiloh alike its rising and setting scene.

NO DECISIVE BATTLE.

Our war was marked in this: it had no decisive battle during
its progress, and it was not ended by a decisive battle . Wolfe
won Canada from Montcalm at one blow, on the heights of Abraham.
"Washington destroyed Cornwallis at Yorktown. Waterloo ended
Napoleon. Solferino ended the Franco-Italian war of 1859. Sadowa
cod eluded the Prusso-Austrian war of 1866. Sedan was the finale of
Napoleon III. But there was no Quebec, Yorktown, Solferino, Sa-
dowa, Sedan or Waterloo in all the battles of our Civil War.

Gettysburg has been regarded like

"Flodden's fatal field,

Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear

and broken was her shield."

And I have myself spoken of it on another occasion as decisive
in a certain sense. It proved our inability, at our highest degree of
efficiency, to defeat the North in the North; and from its date the
Confederacy declined. Its influences may have been indirectly and
remotely decisive; but in itself it was not. You know, for many of
you were there, that after it was over the army stood defiant in bat-
tle array on the hill tops, from which it had descended to the charge.
Never did Early's division, to which many of you and I belonged,
seem grander to me than that 4th day of [July, when it stood in line
on the edge of the valley of the shadow of death, where lay the
stricken of the lost fight.

Do you remember how Gordon brought up the rear guard
and turned back to give a parting blow ? Do you not remember
how anxious the boys were for Meade to attack ? They blame him
sometimes in the North for not advancing. But Meade knew his
business that day, and knew "his man." Did you ever see "the boys"
in higher spirits, or keener for a fight, than when they slowly reced-
ed, covering the retreat of Lee — acting as the rear guard of Gettys-
burg ? Don't you remember how eagerly they hurried back to slap
in the face the audacious fellows who trod too swiftly on their heels;
and how grim and fierce they looked when, at Hagarstown, they
were put in line and Meade was feeling them ? They undoubtedly

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felt to him like "quills of the fretful porcupine." But he felt with
a gentle and gingerly touch, and when they quietly recrossed the
swollen Potomac he seemed to say: "Go — and joy go with you."

And do you not remember Lee, how he looked on that day,
on the retreat, as our ranks opened for the handful of Pickett's men
to pass — how he stood with his hat off, saluting that little band
clustered under its shredded flags, looking as if the world lay con-
quered at his feet ? Verily, the man who never saw Robert E. Lee, I
think, missed seeing the greatest of God's creation — a man on whom
"every god did seem to set his seal to give the world assurance of
a man."

A LESSON OF RACE COURAGE.

The war taught a lesson of race courage. "The Yankees won't
fight,'' some one remarked at the outset. I have never been able to
discover the man that said it. He "vamoosed the ranch'' the first
shot. That was a good story Gen . Robert Toombs told on this sub-
ject. He had met a fellow during enlisting time who was cutting up
terribly, brandishing words and weapons, and swearing he could
whip and eat ten Yankees. He met him again at Gaine's Mills when the
conflict was raging and shells, with that peculiar "Whar is you ?"
sound, were falling thick and fast and shrieking through the air.
This time the gentleman had got under the hill and was hugging
the ground with vast tenacity. "Hello!" said Gen. Toombs, '-is that
you, Jim ? I thought I heard you say some time ago you could eat
ten Yanks?" "Well, so I did, General, but it seems to me there's a
million of them here, and you don't take me for a glutton, do you?"

Well, the Yanks did fight — well and bravely; and when they
got licked they came back again and kept on fighting, and the next
war that comes along will find no encouragement in any argument
based on the suggestion that "the Yanks won't fight." At the same
time, it is true that if the old Confederate did not beat ten, he made
it awful hot for four apiece for four years — and was onlv himself out-
done when the army, as Gordon said, was "fought to a frazzle." The
North said at the begining these Southern fire eaters are dashing- but
they haven't the sturdy staying qualities — they haven't the British
bull dog tenacity — the cold enduring blood. All this sort of talk
soon died out. For staying- quality, what soldiers of ancient or
modern times ever surpssed the old Confederate whether of the East
or the West ?

SWORD AND BAYONET.

The war proved that the bayonet and sabre are terrible tools,
but their terrors are for the most part in the imagination. They look
dreadful, especially when pointed toward you by a fellow with fire in
his eye, who is coming your way at double-quick or a gallop. Out of
246,712 wounded men treated on the Union side in the war but 922
were hurt by sabre or bayonet. I never saw a single man stuck by a

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bayonet, and never knew personally but one who was struck, and that
was Lieut. Orr, Adjutant of the Sixth Louisiana Regiment, who was
the first to leap over the ramparts of Fort Jackson, at Winchester, in
June, 1863.

WHAT HISTOBY WILL SAY OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES.

History will say of the Confederate armies that never in all
time did so few stand up so bravely against so many. Some visionary
is now contending that there were a million and a half men in the
Confederate armies. Facts in general, and facts specifically, contra-
dict this absurd pretension. The Confederate Generals concentrated
so rapidly, and the old Confederates' legs were so highly educated to
the forced march, that they counted him two or three times.

Of the thirty-four States and Territories of the United States
only eleven States seceded. Their men of military age — that is,
eighteen and forty-live years — numbered, 1,064,193, inclusive of lame,
halt and blind, while on the Union side the same class numbered
4,559,872, over 4 to 1.

The border States gave to the South 19,000 men, but these
were offset by 89,009 which the seceding States gave to the Union
armies.

"According to the best authorities," says Lieut. Col: Fox, of
the United States army, in his book, "Regimental Losses in the Civil
War," according to the best authorities the aggregate enrollment of
the Confederate armies during the whole war numbered over 600,000
men, of whom not over 400,000 were enrolled at any time." This
accords with the statement of Gen. Samuel Cooper, the Confederate
Adjutant General. To oppose them was an aggregate enrollment of
2,865,028 men, but there being many persons who enlisted twice this
extensive number of enlistments is reduced to 2,236,168 persons —
nearly 4 to L

Counting the border States of Kentucky, Missouri and Mary-
land, which gave 231,509 soldiers to the Union, West Virginia, which
gave 32,068, and Tennessee, which gave 31,092, and the rest of the
Southern States, which gave 21,755, it is a fact that the South itself —
tbe slave States — gave 316,424, half as many soldiers to the United
States as constituted the active Confederate army.

New York, with 448,850, and Pennsylvania, with 337,936 Union
soldiers, aggregated 786,786, and together outnumbered the Confed-
erate armies.

Illinois, with 259,092, Ohio, with 313,180, and Indiana, with
196,363, aggregated 768,635, and outnumbered the Confederate armies.

New England, with 363,162, and the Union soldiers of the slave
States, 316,424, outnumbered the Confederate armies.

The States west of the Mississippi, exclusive of Missouri and
other Southern States, enlisted 309,563; Delaware, New Jersey and
the District of Columbia, 105,632, and the colored troops enlisted in

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the Southern States, and not before counted were 99,337, an aggre-
gate of 514,532.

These facts, taken from the war records, show that there were
four Union armies in the field, each of which was as large as the en-
tire Confederate army.

Never was such prolonged and desperate fighting done by the
same men. Tbe Light Brigade in the famous charge of Balaklava,
which has sounded over the world, carried in 673 officers and men
and lost 113 killed and 134 wounded; total 247, or 36.7 per cent.
This pales before many exploits of both Union and Confederate troops,
of which we have scarcely heard. I have a list of seventy-three Fed-
eral regiments which lost over 50 per cent in particular battles. The
heaviest loss during the whole Franco-German war was that of the
Third Westphalian Regiment at Mars-la-Tour, which lost 49 per cent.

Over fifty Confederate regiments lost over fifty to the hundred
in different battles. The First Texas, at Antietam, 82.3 per cent; the
Twenty-first Georgia, at Manassas, 76 ; the Twenty-sixth North Car-
olina, at Gettysburg, 71; the Sixth Massachusetts, at Shiloh, 70; the
Eighth Tennessee, at Stone River, 68; the Seventeenth South Caro-
lina, at Manassas, 66; the First Alabama Battalion, at Chickamauga,
64; the Fifteenth Virginia, at Antietam, 58; the Sixth Alabama, at
Seven Pines, led by your gallant commander-in-chief, Gen. Gordon,
lost two-thirds of its men in that action.

The total loss in killed or died of wounds of the Germans in
the Franco-German war was 3.1 per cent: that of the Austrians in the
war of 1866, 2.6 per cent; that of the Allies in the Crimea, 3.2 per
cent. But in our war the Federals lost 4.7 and the Confederates over
9 per cent, the largest proportion of any modern army that fell around
its standards.

In numbers the Federal loss was 67,058 killed and 43,012 died
of wounds; total, 110,070. Of the Confederates the like total was
74,524. Borodino was, since the discovery of gunpowder, the bloodi-
est battle of modem times, as the historians state, but not so bloody
as Gettysburg in proportion to the numbers engaged.

THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER IN HISTORY.

Whatever else mankind may say of the Southern Confederacy,
its movement, its aspirations, its deeds — history spoke its unalterable
decree respecting the Confederate soldier while yet the field was red.
Your comrades have covered you with tokens of their faith in you, of
their love and veneration for you. Matron and maid, sire and son,
old and young, have said to you, "well done." The outside world,
who knew you only by your deeds, have said, "well done." Your foes
that were have been just to your valor and generous in expressions.
Glory has wrapped you in its arms and bound your brows with wreaths
as green as the leaves of your magnolia trees and as fragrant as their
blooms. The Confederate soldier is honored because he made it
manifest that he was honest and honorable and true and brave.

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The strongest instinct I see in nature is the moral instinct,
the thirst for truth, the passion for justice. Truth sticks and stays
and tongues and grooves with all things, and truth has stood by you
and spoken for you. You were not soldiers of conquest. You did
not seek to add an acre to your empire. You were not soldiers of
greed; your month's pay scarce bought a dinner. You were not sol-
diers of ambition; titles did not dance in your vision. You were sol-
diers of a principle, and that principle the right of a people to make
government to suit themselves, and pursue happiness to suit them-
selves; to create tbeir own temple of liberty and to worship therein the
god of their own conscience. If the principle be wrong your educa-
tion was wrong and the Declaration of Independence was not an im-
mortal truth, but only a special plea. You were soldiers of home, for
the well-being of home. Napoleon said to his soldiers, "Behold Italy !
Conquer and take the spoils." Your General said, "Behold home !
Defend it." Let who will, say you erred; it is his privilege to think
so and to say so. Thought is free; speech is free, but this remains:
you were true to principle as you conceived it; true to home as you
loved it; true to manhood as you possessed it, and the everlasting
verities of nature envelop you in armor bright as the burnished steel,
and stronger.

General Joseph Hooker said of the

ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.

"That army has by discipline alone acquired a character for
steadiness and efficiency unsurpassed, in my judgment, in ancient or
modern times. We have not been able to rival it, nor has there been
any approximate to it in the other rebel arm}'." (First volume Con-
duct of the War, page 113.)

Gen. Henry J. Hunt, who commanded the Federal Artillery at
Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, closes his account of the third day's
battle at Gettysburg with these words, as to the Confederates who
fought it: "Right gallantly did they act their part, and their failure
carried no discredit with it. Their military honor was not tarnished
by their defeat nor tbeir spirit lowered, but their respect for their
opponents was restored to what it had been before Fredericksburg
and Chancellorsville."

Gen. Grant in his "Memoirs," thus speaks of his meeting with
Gen. Lee at Appomattox: "What Gen. Lee's feelings were I do not
know. Whatever his feelings they were entirely concealed from our
observation, but my own feelingb, which had been quite jubilant on
the receipt of his letter, were sal and depressed. I felt like anything
rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long
and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause
was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought and one
for which there was the least excuse. * * * When Lee and I
separated be went back to his lines and I returned, to the house of
Mr. McLean. Here the officers of both armies came in great numbers,

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and seemed to enjoy the meeting as much as though they had been
friends separated for a long time while fighting battles under the same
flag. For the time being it looked very much as if all thought of the
war had escaped their minds."

THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

These are generous words, written in the true spirit of an
American soldier. No good is done by belittling our brave foes of
other days; and I am proud to be of the same race and country as the
soldiers who thus fraternized while the bloody dew of battle was on
the field; of the soldiers who fell before the fires of Marye's Heights
and Cold Harbor, and climbed the heights of Missionary Ridge.
There is something noble and touching in the way the old warriors
met and treated each other. When Gen. Richard Taylor met Gen.
Canby at the last surrender the Federal band played "Hail Columbia."
Gen. Canby retired a moment, ''Hail Columbia" ceased and "Dixie"
burst upon the ear. "No gentler courtesy," says Gen. Taylor, "has
been recorded since Froissart's time." When the guns were shotted
for a salute of victory at Appomattox, Gen. Grant said to a member
of his staff: "Stop those guns ! It has taken us four years to capture
those 8000 men — let no salute be fired." Gen. Meade and Gen. Lee
met after the surrender. "Gen. Meade," remarked Gen. Lee, ''you
are getting a little gray, are you not?" ''It is not the work of years,"
replied Gen. Meade, "it is you, Gen. Lee, who have made me gray."

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SOUTH SINCE THE WAR.

If you did great things under the flag of the Southern cross
you and yours have done still greater things under the old flag that
your fathers helped to make illustrious in the brave days of yore.

Uprising from the grave of the old South — uprising from finan-
cial failure, from battle failure, from independence failure, from insti-
tutional failure — from every manner of failure but heart failure, rose
the New South, her chastened face pale with suffering, but illumined
with sublime hope and resolution.

What a scene was there in all the land from 1865 until recon-
struction was ended. From Virginia to Texas all of the eleven States
lay stricken in a seething caldron of ruin and corruption over which

"Chaos umpire sat
And by decision more embroiled the fray."

Character and intelligence disfranchised. The bottom rail on
top. The slave become master. The carpet-bagger going about, not
a roaring lion, but like a sneaking hyena, ravaging the land, crunch-
ing the bones of the dead. Public office the opportunity for plunder.
Penitentiaries and capitols undistinguishable by their inmates. Good
faith a ribald jest. The middle ages squatted down on the nineteenth
century. Tragedy and comedy played the antics of frenzy. Taxation
the instrument of robbery. Governors, judges, legislators, commis-
sioned robbers under the prostituted great seal of the people. Cor-

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porals of the guard in Legislative chambers. Cannons and sergeants
at the polls. The official coterie — one vast iVJardi Gras of the imps of
darkness — government a mixture of sheol, hades, hell fire, the blsick
death and pandemonium.

With indignant stroke the New South shook off the incubus and
stamped it under foot. Up from the black deluge — as peak by peak the
mountains stood forth when the water of the flood abated — rose State
by State, until from old Virginia to Texas the American of the South
stood conqueror on the land of conquest — a free man rejoicing- — and
the South was glad, and the North was glad, and the world was
glad, and the morning stars sang together over the bans of the new
Union over the birth of the New America, over the latest and the grand-
est *triumph of the Anglo-Saxon-American race. The generation
that had fought and lost in the civil war had well-nigh fulfilled the
text of the Anglo-Saxon Bible that the father shall transmit to his
son the heritage of liberty undiminished.

It was the victory of civilization.

It was the victory of Christianity.

It was the victory of republican institutions.

It was the victory of all America.

It was the victory of the race that is destined first to domin-
ate this continent, and then to rule the globe, making its language
the base of human language, making its institutions the institutions
of mankind, making its freedom the benison of the world.

Lee at Washington College is to me a sublimer spectacle than
Lee at Gettysburg.

Davis vindicating the honor of his people with his latest
breath is as grand as the renowned President at Richmond.

And our friend, Gen. Kirby Smith here, teaching the youth
of the South is no less admirable than the gallant General who fell
riding to the rescue at Manassas.

Old Confederates all along the line won laurels brighter than
those of war. Kemper and Withers, in Virginia; Ransom, Vance and
Scales, in North Carolina; Hampton and Butler, in South Carolina;
Gordon and Colquitt, in Georgia; Perry, in Florida; Morgan, Forney
and Wheeler, in Alabama; Lamar, George, Walthall and Hooker, in
Mississippi; Berry and Jones, in Arkansas: your one-armed and one-
legged hero, Nicholls, and Gibson, in Louisiana; Coke, Reagan and
Mills, in Texas; Faulkner and Kenna, in West Virginia; Blackburn
and jBuckner, in Kentucky; Cockerill, Marmaduke and Vest, in
Missouri. These and hundreds like them — I but take the names
"that come uppermost''— won back the lustre of the stars that shine
for their States on the flag of the Union.

Before coming from Washington I took a glance at the Sen-
ate. There are eleven of the States which seceded entitled to rep-
resentation there, and thes-e would have twenty-two Senators present.
On the first bench are seven Confederate brigadiers, and, all told,
twenty- three Confederate soldiers; so they have a full quota and a

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little more, b^ing reinforced from non-seceding States by ex-Con-
federate soldiers.

The scene bespeaks the magnanimous sentiments and the lib-
eral policy of this great republic, which is no place for little policies
and little men: — and it bespeaks as well the fidelity of the South to
those who fought for it.

GENEROUS MEN OF THE NORTH.

Nor will we forget the brave, true, noble men of the North
who helped us — who were Union soldiers with us in this new strife
for the purity of our Constitution, for the purity of our race, for the
virtue of our reunited Union.

First among the men who have shown their generous senti-
ment was Greeley. Yes, Horace Greeley, when he put his name
upon the bond that set Jefferson Davis free — that stroke of his pen
wiped out forever every ill-thought I ever had against him. Then
there were Seymour, Cox and Tilden, of New York, Adams and
Winthrop of Massachusetts, McClellan and Randolph of New Jersey,
Black and Randall of Pennsylvania, Bayard of Delaware, Voorhees of
Indiana, Thurman of Ohio, Blair of Missouri; these and thousands
like them — thousands of whole-hearted, true-hearted Americans,
helped us, without whose help our work had all been vain. And
second to none reckon I him — Hancock of America — the American
soldier, the American citizen, the American statesman, the intrepid
champion of our oppressed people and of our reunited land, who here
uttered the words which made him one of the immortals.

And now I am done. I came from old Virginia, where were
fought so many battles, whose vrry dust is quick with your heroic
blood, to have the pleasure of looking again upon your faces, of shak-
ing once more your hands, and to '-timulate myself for the remaining
battles of life by quaffing of the noble spirit of this reunion in your
society. We owe it to ourselves and our children, to justice and to
truth, that the sacrifices made, the glorious deeds done, and the great
names of our history shall not perish from earth, but be handed down
as an heritage to our race, our children and to mankind.

MONUMENT TO JEFFERSON DAVIS.

And, first, it seems to me fit to build a monument to him, the
foremost Confederate — to Jefferson Davis, our civil magistrate, our
commander-in-chief — who is buried in New Orleans, the city which he
loved and in which he died, but whom we hope will soon be removed
to the city around which rolled so many waves of battle, which was
the capital of the Confederacy, and which fell only when our armies
were worn out, and the cause was lost.

Let there be reared no unmeaning shaft but a temple, in which
his own figure shall be the central object, and around which shall be
grouped the heroic relics of the battles of the Confederacy and the

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pictured faces and the sculptred forms of the great and true and brave
men who fought them. This is not yet accomplished, but I hope to see
the movement grow until that temple shall stand — the Battle Abbey
of the South — the undying memorial of the people who fought their
own battles, in their own way, for their own liberty as they
conceived it, for their own independence as they desired it, and who
need give to the world no other reason why.

OLD COMRADES, FAREWELL.

We may never meet again. God bless you ! May you bear
ever with you the guerdon of Lee's words. "The consciousness of
duty faithfully performed." Gently may you glide adown the stream
of time, and when life is ended may you rest in peace and honor in the
land you loved so well.

[NOTE. — The orator was greeted by applause (loud 'and long) at the
conclusion of nearly every sentence of this grand oration, and it was so fre-
quent that notice is omitted at points where it occurred in the body of the
oration, as it would mar its beauty, and interfere with its reading.

Adjutant General.]

[NOTE. — As this publication is only intended to give a history of the
official proceedings of the Reunion; no attempt is made to give a descrip-
tion of the distinguished audience of noble men and beautiful women, the
notable gathering on the stage of the surviving Generals of the 'Lost Cause,"
the scene of enchantment as the lovely daughters of the Southern States,
moved forward with their bannerets, nor of all the admirable arrangements at
the French Opera House, where the oration by Senator Daniel was delivered.
This belongs more properly to the duties and report of the Local Committee
of Arrangements, whose chairman Col. Chas. G. Johnson, is entitled to the
highest credit, as he displayed exquisite taste in all his conceptions and the
greatest ability in the. perfection of all of his arrangements, and was ably
seconded in all the details and execution of his plans by Col. A. A. Maginnis,
and Col. Thos. L. Macon.

Adjutant General.]

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Evening Session, Apbil 8th, 1892.

Gen. Gordon called the convention to order at 8 p. m., and an-
nounced it ready for business. The following resolutions, etc., were
read and referred to the Committee on Resolutions.

General J. F. Shipp submitted a resolution requesting the
Commanding General to inquire into the practicability of holding the
next annual convention at Chicago .

General J. F. Shipp offered a resolution authorizing the Com-
manding General to appoint a Central IMemorial Committee for the
erection of a memorial building, to cost not less than five hundred
thousand dollars, to the Hon. Jefferson Davis, etc.

Comrade Wm. E. Mickle, of Mobile, Ala., offered the following
motion:

Moved: That this convention desires to express its sense of
satisfaction at the extremely able and eminently thorough manner in
which the multifarious and arduous duties of the Anjutant General's
office have been discharged by Gen. George Moorman, and that said
officer be informed of this action of the convention.

The rules were suspended and the motion was taken up and
unanimously adopted, by a rising vote, and amidst great cheering.

Adjutant Gen. Moorman thanked the convention in the follow-
ing words:

"Fellow Comrades — I thank you for the high appreciation you
have shown of the services I have rendered in the capacity in which I
have been placed. It is but just for me to say that I could not have
done less, as I have always felt that the honor of having been placed
upon the staff of the illustrious man whose glorious deeds and fame
fills such a conspicuous place in our history, and whose name is so
securely enshrined in the hearts of every old Confederate, has been to
me an inspiration, and a stimulus to urge me to renewed efforts in the
cause of the United Confederate Veterans. [Applause and cheers.J
This mark of your approbation and esteem will always be cherished
by me with the greatest pride and gratification. Out of the fullness
of my heart I thank you and I shall continue to do everthing in my
power for the old veterans and the widows and orphans of our fallen
comrades in arms." [Applause.]

A delegate from Texas arose and stated that he moved that
Gen. Longstreet be invited to the platform, thus enjoying the courte-
sies of the convention; that it was well understood his feelings had
been hurt and that some attention should be shown to prove that any
oversight of the morning had been accidental rather than intentional,
and that further, it would be proper for Gen. Gordon and Gen. Long-
street to remain on the stand after the convention should have ad-
journed, to shake the hands of their former old comrades-in-arms, so
many of whom were in the audience.

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Gen. Schaumburg opposed the latter suggestion, saying that
a reception had been arranged for Saturday night, and that there was
sufficient business of grave importance to engross all of their time.

Gen. Gordon then said that he did not believe Gen. Longstreet
was present to express his wishes on this subject, but that he could
say, so far as the present occupant of the chair is concerned, that he
felt highly flattered and would gladly respond to the request made,
and would always remember and esteem it the proudest privilege
of his life to take by the hand any man who pulled a trigger from 1861
to 1865. [Loud yells and cheers.]

Several speakers addressed the convention in most laudatory
language regarding the superb services rendered the Confederacy by
the old hero, Gen. Jas. Longstreet, and severely denouncing any differ-
ence of political creed effecting a chasm between men who nobly
served their country a quarter of a century ago.

Gen. Gordon then extended a most cordial invitation to Gen.
Longstreet (if present) to take a seat on tbe platform, but as he
had retired early in consequence of the fatigue of the day, a mo-
tion was made by comrade R. H. Phelps, of Texas, that a committee
of thirteen, one from each of the Southern States, be appointed to go in
search of Lee's ''old war horse" and bring him into their midst, which
motion was heartily seconded by Alabama, Mississippi and other
States. An amendment, however, was offered by a delegate, "as a
Confederate soldier, one who fought for the Confederate cause, who
was led by such a man as James Longstreet, and not as an Alabamian,
or a Texan, or a Mississippian, should this motion be seconded, but
by a Confederate soldier, to ask him as a Confederate soldier to come
here and participate with us in this love feast." Motion with amend-
ment was carried, with cheers.

Gen. Wm. Miller Owen had meanwhile telephoned to Col. Wm.
Blake's residence to know whether General Longstreet was there, and
upon learning that being very feeble and fatigued by the exercises of
tbe day he, had retired, Gen. Owen returned and communicated the
fact to the convention.

Here several delegates stated that inasmuch as he had retired,
it would prolong the session too late, and that the reception had
better be deferred.

Gen. Gordon, nevertheless, at once appointed the committee to
wait on Gen. Longstreet and request his presence, remarking at the
same time that he would bold the convention until the arrival of Gen.
Longstreet. The committee was composed of the following comrades:

Texas, Gen. W. G. Blaine; Louisiana, Hon. Walter H. Rogers;
Georgia, Gen. W. L. Calhoun; Arkansas, Major Gen. Ben. T. DuVal;
Indian Territory, Capt. R. B. Coleman; Virginia, Hon. J. Taylor Elly-
sou; North Carolina, Col. E. D. Hall; Florida, Major Gen. J. 3. Dickison;
Alabama, Gen. F. S. Ferguson; Mississippi, Capt. C. Humphreys; Ten-
nessee, Col. Jno. W. Morton; South Carolina, Gen. Ellison Capers;
Kentucky, Major Gen. Jno. Boyd; Washington, D. C, Major Albert-
Akers.

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The chair announced that he would be pleased to have reports
from the committees.

Gen. Wm. L. Thompson, on the part of the Committee on Cre-
dentials, asked further time to report, also'requesting that the report,
when submitted, should not be made public (inasmuch as it was in-
complete), which was granted.

The Committee on Order of Business then reported, as follows:
The Committee on Order of Business, consisting of Hon. B. F. Jonas,
chairman, of Louisiana; Gen. A. T. Watts, of Texas; Major Gen. W.
H. Jackson, of Tennessee; Gen. Jos. K. Davis, of Mississippi; Gen. W.
L. Calhoun, of Georgia, report the following as the result of their
labors:

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

1st. Convention called to order.

2d. Prayer by the Chaplain General.

3d. Address by the General Commanding.

4th. Appointment of Committee on Credentials.

5th. Appointment of Committee on Resolutions, to which all
resolutions shall be referred without debate.

6th. Annual Oration.

7th. Report of Committee on Credentials.

8th. Reports of Officers and Standing Committees.

9th. Reports of Special Committees.

10th. Unfinished Business.

11th. New Business.

12th. Election of Officers.

13th. Installation of Officers.

14th. Adjournment.

The following resolutions were read and referred to Committee
on Resolutions. Resolution by Baton Rouge Camp No. 17, to estab-
lish a similar memorial day throughout the South.

Resolution by Col. Price Williams, Jr., of Raphael Semmes
Camp, asking the cordial co-oporation of the Confederate veterans, in
New Orleans convention assembled, in the completion of the monu-
ment in Mobile, Ala., to Admiral Raphael Semmes,

Gen. T. N. Waul, of Texas, Chairman Committee on Reso-
lutions here asked further time to prepare resolution relative to the
Davis Memorial. Granted and presented following.

Resolution by Army of Tennessse, Camp No. 2, through
Gen. John Glynn, Jr., to appoint a committee on constitution and
by-laws, to be composed of one representative from each of the thir-
teen Confederate States, and one to represent the camps outside of
the thirteen States. An amendment to the original was made as
follows:

"I desire to make an amendment which may be adopted—
that is to give representation to each of the States having active
membership in this convention.

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This convention lias just asked that the thirteen States make an
appropriation to pension Mrs. Davis.

The motion provides that there shall be a committee com-
posed of one member from each of the thirteen Confederate States
and one to represent the camps outside of the thirteen States, and a
member can be added from each one of those fifteen States having
representation in this convention, and I offer this not as an objection,
but as an amendment."

Genl. J. A. Ohalaron the originator of the resolution accepted
the amendment on the part of the Louisiana Camps who presented
that resolution.

The chair then placed the resolution as amended before the
convention, and there being objections it was referred back to the
committee on .Resolutions.

By Camp No. 2, Louisiana, through Gen. John Glynn, Jr.:
Amendments to Articles 2, 3 and 5 of the constitution. Objected to
by Genl. J. Henry Behan and referred back to committee on
Resolutions.

By comrade J. F. Shipp: Resolution to appoint a central
memorial committee to procure necessary funds to build a memorial
building, etc. Objected to and referred back to committee on Reso-
lutions.

Resolution by W. H. Brooker, of Albert Sidney Johnston
Camp, San Antonio, Texas: To compile and publish a correct history
of the war, etc. The committee report this resolution adversely, be-
cause they have already considered and reported a resolution cover-
ing the same ground. Report adopted.

Under a suspension of the rules, the following resolution
offered by Gen. G. W. Gordon of Tenn. was read for final action:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that the late
Confederate States each grant a small pension to Mrs. V. Jefferson
Davis, widow of the president of said Confederate States, and we
earnestly recommend to the legislatures of the following States to
vote her an annual pension of $500 each during the remaining years
of her life, to wit: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro-
lina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and for the
five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory $100 each.

Resolved further, That the governors of each of the States
named, and the governors of each of the five civilized tribes of the
Indian Territory, be requested to lay this matter before their respec-
tive legislatures at their next meeting in a special message.

Adopted unanimously with great enthusiasm.

"The chair will not put the opposite to this question."

The resolution was carried, but no sooner had the chair made
the announcement formally declaring the motion adopted than a
Texas delegate arose to object. It was the same gentleman whose
objection caused the first resolution to be recommitted, and when

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lie ai'ose be was greeted with cries of "Down, down," from all parts
of the h ill.

The gentleman, whose name was not announced either by the
chair or himself, declared that he did not rise with any desire to
obstruct. He then continued (the chair insisting on his recognition)
as follows:

''With all due deference to the chair, I arise to raise a point
of order on the passage of these resolutions about to be put. It
should lay open for discussion and not be run through in the man-
ner it was. I respectfully and out of all due respect to you, insist
on the point of order that has been raised heretofore.

"It is certainly correct that a resolution can be taken from the
table without referring it to the Committee on Resolutions, but, sir,
organize your body. Did we not have the same right to pass these
resolutions this morning within two minutes after the calling to
order of the convention that we have now ? I maintain that we had,
and why ? Because then we had no report from the Committee on
Credentials. "We had no accredited delegates here. Have we got
any now ? I maintain that we have not and will not have until that
committee makes its report. After it makes its report as to who are
delegates then I will believe, and I will not believe until then, that
we can proceed in the manner that you suggest. I do not want to
appeal to this House, but I think I am right."

"Sit down," "sit down," came from every cpiarter.

The comrade speaking took his seat, remarking at the same
time, "I will sit down because I am through."

Gen. Gordon said : "The chair will be glad to submit an appeal
from the position taken at any moment. The present occupant of
this chair not only protests against rulings which are not maintained
by parliamentiary bodies, but is a strict constructionist, and in
every assemblage of this kind believes in adhering to the letter of
the law. The chair is not an autocrat, and there is no
one within the sound of his voice who will the more readily
yield to the voice of the convention, but the chair must maintain
the correctness of its ruling until it is overruled by the vote of this
convention.

"To the gentleman's point of order, from Texas, that we are
not organized and therefore unable to transact this business, the
chair would say that the same point of order would apply to the
appointment of any committee whatever. The body is in existence;
it is here; we have delegates, who they are is immaterial until the
point of order be made, a vote be taken and the ayes and noes be
ordered, that this body is not competent to pass any resolution.
(Loud cheers.) Let the chair be correctly understood. The chair
distinctly announces, and repeats, and reiterates the announcement,
that the voice of one single delegate raised in protest against the
adoption of a resolution, carries it over until the organization is
complete; but where there is no opposition to a resolution it is un-

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questionably parliamentary that a body of delegates, who are recog-
nized as a convention, are competent at any si age of the proceed-
ings to pass by unanimous cousent any measures they see proper,
and certainly if they are competent to appoint committees and put
them in action, they are sufficiently so to adopt resolutions by unan-
mous consent, but only by unanimous consent." (Cries of good,
good.)

A motion was submitted to take from the table each resolu-
tion which had been reported back by the Committee on Eesolutions.

The chair ruled the motion was in order, but insisted that if
an objection was raised to any resolution that it would go over.
The resolutions as they are presented may be passed by the body by
unanimous consent only.

Gen. Schaumberg raised the point of order that the passage
of resolutions in such a manner was contrary to parliamentary usage,
inasmuch as the Committee on Credentials had not yet reported, and
until their report was made it would be impossible to determine
which of the camps might enjoy the privilege of voting.

Gen.Gordon ruled the point was well taken, but added that "the
point raised by the chair is that any body capable of appointing com-
mittees and placing them in full action has the power to pass upon
resolutions without being referred to the committee; but that one
objection raised against the adoption of any resolution, a single voice
raised in' opposition, will have the power to send the resolution back
to the committee.

"The point made by my friend who has just taken his seat
against submitting the resolutions to the convention may be taken
up, but it will expedite matters materially to allow immediate action
of the convention on all resolutions. Still one objection to an indi-
vidual resolution carries it back to the committee, but where no ob-
jection is made it may be passed by the unanimous consent of the
convention." .

The Adjutant General next took up the substitute resolution
offered by the committee for the one introduced by Gen. Chalaron.
The substitute was to the effect that for the purpose of compiling a
true history of the war, all matter appertaining to the subject be
referred to a committee of seven, to be appointed by the chair, and
that it formulate a plan to secure the object intended. Further, that
it select a proper history of the United States to be used in the pub-
lic and private schools of the South, and that it put the seal of con-
demnation on all such books which are not true.

An amendment was made to this resolution by Dr. J. Wm.
Jones, of Georgia, whereby the committee was not restricted to one
history. There were five or six already written which ought to be
taught in the schools, and the committee might choose from or decide
upon the comparative merits of those already written. It was a mat-
ter of vital importance and should have immediate attention to coun-

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teract the untruthful stuff about the war that was now being taught
in our schools.

Before the announcement of the passage of the resolution was
made Gen. Claiborne, of Texas, rose to object, and began to discuss
his objection.

Another delegate from the same State raised the point of order
that under the precedent adopted an objection to a resolution meant
its reference back to the committee. The chair ruled the point well
taken, and Gen. Claiborne said that if he could not discuss his objec-
tion he would not make it.

On motion unanimous consent was granted the General to
state his objection, which he did by saying: "The question raised by
this resolution is a dangerous one for us, as we are on the eve of a
great political campaign. I want the Democracy to come out on top,
three, four or five deep. I want it to go to the Committee or; Reso-
lutions."

Gen. Gordon: "The resolution comes up from the committee
in the shape of a substitute."

The objection was then withdrawn, and the resolution was
carried.

Judge Burke, of Texas, announced that he differed with Gen
Claiborne, and did not think it well to inject politics into the business
of the association. "I protest against the sentiment expressed. We
vote here our honest sentiment, and let political expediency go to the
winds."

On motion of Col. J. M. Harrell, of Arkansas, a vote of thanks
was tendered to Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, for the masterly
oration which he delivered at the Opera House.

A resolution ordering that 25,000 copies of the address with
that of the general commanding be printed for distribution among the
members of the United Confederate Veterans, was sent to the Com-
mittee on Resolutions.

A motion by Comrade W. K. Chandler, of Florida, authorizing
the chair to appoint a committee to consider the place for the next
annual reunion was referred to Committee on Resolutions. •

An invitation from E. Overbeck, vice-president and acting
president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, extending the free-
dom of the Cotton Exchange rooms to all visiting Confederate vet-
erans during their stay in New Orleans, was read and accepted with
thanks.

Gen. Cabell said: "With the unanimous consent of this House
I ask we defer our thanks in reference to the oration of Hon. John W.
Daniel. We have not had the time to draft a suitable resolution, and
after consulting with our Honorable President of this House, we de-
sire to present it as soon as a proper one can be drafted, and there-
fore desire the unanimous consent to present it when the time comes."

No objection being made the chair granted the request.

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By Comrade Robert Campbell (submitted by courtesy, as he is
not au accredited delegate), of Yhzoo Camp No. 19, Mississippi State
Association, resolution to provide for the maimed and helpless United
Confederate Veteran comrades. The Committee on Resolutions rec-
ommended the following substitute: That the general commanding
be requested to appoint a committee of five, who stall prepare and
submit to the governors and legislatures of the several States that
have not made adequate provisions for the support and maintenance
of her wounded and helpless soldiers and their widows, a memorial
requesting that such be done; which was unanimously adopted.

General J. Henry Behan called the attention of the chair to
the fact of the lateness of the hour and the non-report of the Com-
mittee on Credentials. A motion was offered by Gen. Schaumberg to
adjourn until the following morning at 9:30, but objection was raised
to this as it was known Gen. Longstreet would be with them in a few
minutes, and besides there was an abundance of business to engross
their attention.

Gen. Schaumberg at once withdrew his motion. At this point
the Committee on Credentials was announced and Major Gen. John
C. Underwood, the chairman, before presenting the list of camps en-
titled to vote, explained that it was possible, and even probable, that
many of the remittances of the per capita tax might then be in the
hands of the Adjutant General who had just received and had
not sutficient time to examine an exceedingly heavy mail. The com-
mittee had only acted upon the returns furnished by the Adjutant
General, and its members proposed making a supplementary report in
the morning (should the convention be willing) so that camps that
had been dilatory in sending forward their per capita could secure
representation on the floor of the convention. He further explained
that it was impossible to present the names of the delegates to the
convention, as many of the camps had elected a larger delegation than
they were entitled to, and it was impossible ^for the committee to de-
termine which of the names furnished should be excluded. They had
therefore reported by camps, giving the name and address of the
camp, and the number of votes to which it was entitled. This would
enable the proper number of delegates to be on the floor of the con-
vention; votes could be taken viva voce, and in case of a call for the
yeas and nays, the roll could be called by camps.

The report was then read by the chairman, Major Gen. Jno. C.
Underwood, as follows:

New Orleans, La., April 8th, 1892,
Gen. Jno. B. Gordon,

President Convention United Confederate Veterans :

Sir — The Committee on Credentials of the Delegates to the
General Convention of the United Confederate Veterans have the
honor to make the following report:

The committee has examined the credentials presented to it
and find the following camps entitled to representation in the con-

of the united Confederate Veterans.. 55

vention in the number of votes reported opposite their names respect-
ively. Many of the camps have made returns of a greater number of
delegates elected to represent their bodies than is allowable under
provision of <the constitution, and the entire roster so returned is re-
ported herewith, ,with the recommendation that each camp be required
to vote through a selected chairman, the camp having the privilege
of dividing its accredited vote according as its delegates shall deter-
mine.

ALABAMA .

Raphael Semmes Camp No. 11.. Mobile 8 votes

W.J.Hardee " No. 39. .Birmingham 14 "

Sanders " No. 64. .Eutaw 2 "

Lomax " No. 151 . .Montgomery ... 5 "
Bessemer " No. 157. .Bessemer 3 "

Total, 32 votes

FLORIDA.

Ward Conf'd. Vet. Ass'n Camp No. 10 . . Pensacola (5 votes

W. W. Loring " No. 13. .Brooksville 3 "

Hillsboro " No. 36.. Tampa 5 "

Indian River " No. 47 . . Titusville 3 "

Orange Co. " No. 54. .Orlando 2 "

Marion Co. Conf'd. Vet. Ass'n " No. 56..0cala 5 "

Pasco Conf'd. Vet. Ass'n " No. 57. .Dade City 5 "

R.E.Lee " No. 58. .Jacksonville 4 "

Nassau " No. 104. .Fernandina 2 "

Milton " No. 132..Marianna 6 "

D.L.Kenan " No. 140..Quincy 3 "

Geo. T, Ward " No. 148. .Inverness 2 "

Gen. Jos. Finnegan " No. 149. .Sanford 2 "

Columbia County " No. 150. .Lake City 6 "

Stewart " No. 155.. Jasper 2 "

Lamar " No. 161. .Tallahassee 3 "

Total, 59 votes

GEORGIA.

Jos. E. Johnston Camp No. 34 . . Dalton 3 votes

Fulton County, Ga. " No. 159. .Atlanta 26 "

Total, 29 votes

DIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST.

Ex-Conf'd. Ass'n Chicago Camp No. 8. .Chicago, 111 .. < . 3 votes

INDIAN TERRITORY.

Jeff. Lee

J no. H. Morgan

Camp No. 68 . . McAlester 6 votes

" No. 107 . . Ardmore 5 "

Total, 11 votes

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KENTUCKY.

Paris Camp No. 95 . . Paris 2 votes

Harrodsburg " No. 96. .Harrodsburg . . . 2 "

Versailles " No. 97 .. Versailles 2 "

Georgetown " No. 98. .Georgetown. ... 2 "

Cynthiana " No. 99 .. Cynthiana 2 «

Lexington " No. 100. .Lexington .... 9 "

Lawrenceburg " No. 101. . Lawrenceburg . . 2 '■

Jno. W. Caldwell " No. 139 . . Russellville . . - . 4 "

Bowling Green " No. 143. .Bowling Green . 2 •'

Total, 27 votes

LOUISIANA.

Army of Northern Va. Camp No. 1. .New Orleans ... 12 votes

Army of Tenn. " x\o. 2. .New Orleans ... 18 "

Gen. Le Roy Stafford " No. 3 . . Shreveport 3 "

Jeff. Davis " No. 6. .Alexandria 6 "

Ruston " No. 7..Ruston 7 "

Veteran Confd. States Cavalry " No. 9 . . New Orleans ... 8 "

R.E. Lee " No. 14. .Opelousas 7 "

Washington Artillery " No. 15. .New Orleans ... 12 "

Henry St. Paul " No. 16. .New Orleans .. . 3 "

Baton Rouge " No. 17. .Baton Rouge. . . 5 "

Iberville " No. 18 . . Plaquemine 3 "

R.L.Gibson " No. 33 .. Evergreen 4 "

Major Victor Maurin " No. 38. .Donaldson ville. . 3 "

Natchitoches u No. 40 . . Natchitoches ... 4 "

Mouton " No. 41. .Mansfield 3 "

Calcasieu Confd. Vets. " No. 62. .Lake Charles .. . 4 «

Amite City " No. 78 .. Amite City 3 "

Isaiah Norwood " No. 110. .Merrick 2 "

Richland " No. 152. .Ray ville 3 "

Total, 110 votes

Natchez

J. J. Whitney

Walthall

Isham Harrison

Vicksburg

Woodville

Montgomery

Beauvoir

John M . Stone

MISSISSIPPI.

Camp No. 20 . . Natchez 6 votes

" No. 22 . . Fayette 3 "

" No. 25.. Meridian 5 "

" No. 27.. Columbus 2 "

" No. 32 . .Vicksburg 4 "

" No. 49.. Woodville 3 "

" No. 52..Rosedale 2 "

•« No. 120 . . Mississippi City . 3 "

'• No. 131.. Tupelo 2 "

Total, 30 votes

of the United Confederate Veterans.

Barnard E. Bee

N. B. Forrest

Fred Ault

Turney

Conf d. Hist. Ass'n

Frank Cbeatham

Jno. Ingram

Stonewall Jackson

Felix K. Zollicoffer

Dibrell

Forbes

Joe B. Palmer

Wm. Frierson

Shackelford -Fulton

Jno. L. McEwen

Sterling Price

Jno. C. Upton

J. E. B. Stuart

Col. B. Timmons

Joseph E. Johnston

Granbury

Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidoey Johnston

Kockwall

Albert Sidney Johnston

Jno. Pelham

Bedford Forrest

Wm . L . )Moody

Grayson Co. Texas

Bob Stone

Joe Johnston

Pat Cleburne

Magruder

Jeff Davis

Collin Co. Texas

Albert Sidney Johnston

Col. Dud Jones

Bell Co. Ex-Confd. Ass'n

Camp Bee

James L . Hogg

Albert Sidney Johnston

CM. Winkler

Wood County

SOUTH

CAROLINA.

Camp

• No.

84.

TENNESSEE.

Camp No.
" No.

No.

12.

No.

35.

No.

37.

No.

42.

No.

46.

No.

55.

No.

77.

No.

81.

No.

83.

No.

114.,

No.

134.

TEXAS .

Camp

No.
No.

31.
43.

No.

45.

No.

61.

No.

63.

No.

67.

No.

70.

No.

71.

No.

74.

No.

75.

No.

76.

No.

86.

No.

87.

No.

90.

No.

93.

No.

94.

No.

102.

No.

105.

• c

No.

108.

No.

109.

No.

113

No.

121.

No.

122.

No.

130.

No.

133.

No.

144.

No.

147.

No.

153.

. Aiken 2 votes

.Chattanooga ... 7 votes

Knoxville 3 "

.Winchester 5 "

Memphis 8 "

.Nashville 17 "

.Jackson 5 "

. McKeuzie 5 "

Knoxville' 3 "

Lewisburg .... 3 "

.Clarksville 10 •«

. Murf reesboro. . . 4 "

. Shelby ville 10 "

Fayetteville 6 "

. Franklin 8 "

Total, 94 votes

Dallas 15 votes

.Huntsville 3 "

.Terrell 5 "

. La Grange 2 ■'

Corpus Cbristi.. 3 "

.Granbury 4 "

.Paris 3 "

. Kingston 3 "

.Rockwall. 4 "

.Beaumont 2 "

. Coleman 5 "

.Seymour 2 "

.Fairfield 4 "

.Sherman 11 "

.Montague 7 "

.Mexia 5 "

.Navasota 4 "

Galveston 9 "

. Wax%hachie .... 4 "

.McKinney . . 30 " '

. Colorado 2 "

. Mt. Pleasant .... 3 "

.Belton 13 "

. Forney 4 •'

. Canton 2 "

.San Antonio. . . 2 "

. Corsicana . 5 ,l

.Mineola 4 "

Total, 160 votes

58 Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

The following camps owe per capita and are not entitled to
vote under the constitution, though some have forwarded returns of
delegates elected, and a great many of them, we are informed, have
their remittances of per capita in the mail just received by the Adju-
tant General, and a good many have the money in hand to pay over
at once, all of which will be reported to us by the Adjutant General
and embraced in our supplemental report to be made in the morning,
viz:

AKKANSAS.

Camp Cabell Camp No. 89, Beutonville.
Ben T. DuVal Camp No. 146, Fort Smith.

FLORIDA.

Geo. T. Ward Camp No. 53, Palmetto.
Patton Anderson Camp No. 59, Monticello.

GEORGIA.

John B. Gordon Camj) No. 50, Spring Place.

LOUISIANA.

Camp Moore Camp No. 60, Tangipahoa.

MISSISSIPPI.

Ben Humphrey Camp No. 19, Crystal Springs.
Hattiesburg Camp No. 21, Hattiesburg.
Kit Mott Camp No. 23, Holly Springs
Robert A. Smith Camp No. 24, Jackson.
W. A. Montgomery Camp No. 26, Edwards.

MISSOURI.

Kansas City Camp No. 80, Kansas City.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Sampson Camp No. 137, Clinton.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Stephen Elliott Camp No. 51, St. George's.

# TEXAS.

Ben McCulloch Camp No. 29, Cameron.

Ben McCulloch Camp No. 30, Decatur.

Palestine Camp No. 44, Palestine,

Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 48. Tyler.

Howdv Martin Camp No. 65, Athens.

R. E. Lee Camp No. 66, Lampasas.

Taylor Co. Camp No. 69, Abilene.

Abilene Camp No. 72. Abilene.

W. J. Hardee Camp No 73, Wichita Falls.

Merkel Camp No. 79, Merkel.

Rosser Camp No. 82 Mount Enterprise.

of the United Confederate Veterans. 59

Erath and Comanche Camp No. 85, Dublin.
Pat Cleburne Camp No. 88, Cleburne.
Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 91, Atlanta.
E. C. Walthall Camp No. 92, Sweetwater.
Jno. B. Hood Camp No. 103, Austin.
K Q. Mills Camp No. 106, Frost.
W. P. Townsend Camp No. Ill, Calvert.
Shropshire-Upton Camp No. 112, Columbus.
Albert Sidney Johmston Camp No. 115, Meridian.
Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 116, Hamilton.'
Jeff Davis Camp No. 117, Goldthwaite.
Stonewall Jackson Camp No. 118, Brownwood.
Joseph E. Johnston Camp No. 119, Gainesville.
Camp Moody Camp No. 123, Buffalo Gap.
J. B. Robertson Camp No. 124, Brvan .
Camp Cabell Camp No. 125, Vernon.
Robert E. Lee Camp No. 126, Ladonia.
Young County Camp No. 127, Graham.
John G. Walker Camp No. 128, Madison ville .
Sul Ross Camp No. 129, Denton.

Ex-Confederate Ass'n Coryell Co. Camp No. 135, Gatesville
Tom Green Camp No. 136, Hempstead.
F. R. Lubbock Camp No. 138, Lubbock.
Crockett Camp No. 141, Crockett.
Camp Rogers Camp No. 142, Caldwell.
Geo. D. Manion Camp No. 145, Kaufman.
W. W. Loring Camp No. 154, Roby.
Gonzales Camp No. 156, Gonzales .
R. E. Lee Camp No. 158, Port Worth.
Alvarado Camp No. 160, Alvarado.
All of which is respectfully submitted.

JNO. C. UNDERWOOD,

Chairman,
JNO. P. HICKMAN,
FRED. L. ROBERTSON,
WM. L. THOMPSON,
E. M. HUDSON.

Gen. Longstreet, accompanied by the committee specially
appointed to escort him to the convention entered the hall (during
the reading of the report of the committee, which was suspended) and
he was received by the veterans standing, amidst the wildest enthu-
siasm. He was seated on the stage next to Gen. Gordon

Gen Stephen D. Lee moved: That after the close of the evening
session of the convention, that the comrades call on and shake hands
with Generals Longstreet and Gordon.

Seconded by Comrade A. T. Watts, of Texas, and unanimously
adopted amidst great cheering.

60 Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

The reading of the report of the Committee on Credentials was
then resumed, and after it had been completed, Gen. Jackson moved
its adoption.

A representative from Young County Camp of Graham,
Texas, arose ami said that his camp had sent $2.00 and per capita
for three representatives, but that the Committee on Credentials had
not given them recognition in their report.

The chair called upon the chairman of the committee to ex-
plain to the delegate from Young county, Texas camp the standing
of his cnmp.

Gen. Underwood— This report is signed by the committee, who
have personally examined every single paper that has been turned
over to it by the Adjutant General. Many of the camps handed in
their list of delegates made out on a scrap of paper, not even putting
the name of their camp, therefore the duties of the committee have
been very arduous and complicated.

The committee has fuund that nearly two-thirds, or perhaps a
greater number of camps would be excluded from taking part in these
proceedings if the constitution be followed to the letter, so many
having failed to pay up their per capita tax by the 1st of April; why,
sir, had we adhered rigidly to the constitution only one camp in the
Louisiana Division, the Confederate States Cavalry Camp No. 9, would
have the privilege of voting, it having complied with the provision to
pay the per capita tax on or before the 1st of April.

We, however, strove to be as liberal iu the construction of the
constitution as justice would permit, and agreed to allow representa-
tion to all camps bringing their per capita with them, as this would
be carrying out the purposes of the constitution in all its legitimate
sense.

With your permission, I would ask the convention that the
committee be allowed to make a supplemental report in the morn-
ing. Delegates having their per capita with them can come to head-
quarters a little earlier and pay it to the Adjutant General, who has
promised to be on hand, and they will have no trouble whatsoever.
It has been rather hard on the Adjutant General to keep his returns
open even as long as he did and receive the per capita of delinquent
camps; he was not compelled to do it, but through the goodness of his
heart, he has kept the returns open long past the prescribed time,
when he had other duties to perform, and which has delayed him very
much in making up his report.

When a wrong can be remedied it should be done; the right
will be done to-morrow when all camrs now present at this conven-
tion, but not entitled to representation, can pay in their per capita
and thus establish their true standing, and allow the committee to
make a subsequent report, which I trust the convention will accept,
and be satisfied with the labors of the committee.

A delegate from Camp No. 19 asked why his camp had
not been called upon either list — the one giving the names of camps

of the United Confederate Veterans. 61

entitled to vote or the one containing the names of camps in default.
The names of our delegates were handed in to this committee this
morning, and I should like to know why they have made no report on
our camp.

Gen. Underwood — Your camp was reported in default because
of non-payment of per capita tax, but (with the permission of the
convention) you have until to-morrow morning to secure for your
ctimp the right to vote.

Here a delegate asked the ruling of the chair on the question
of eligibility of camps that had not paid their per capita tax on or
before April 1st.

The chair decides that to strictly construe the constitution
would exclude all delegates as proper representatives on this floor
who had not paid their per capita by the first day of April; and added
"I want it distinctly understood that the chair is a strict construc-
tionist in all things relating to Southern rights, but in all those
things relating to the rights and liberties of a Confederate soldier,
the chair is a latitudinarian. (Wild cheers and applause.) The
chair, therefore, rules that every camp which brings its per capita to
the Adjutant General of the United Confederate Veterans before the
completion of this session, or before the expiration of the additional
time allowed by the convention, will be under the spirit of the consti-
tution and within its meaning."

The delegate from Camp No. 19 again asked why representa-
tion had been denied his camp as he had paid his per capita tax.

Gen. Underwood — If you have paid it, the committee was given
no record of it, and your camp was, therefore, reported in default.
As previously stated, the Adjutant General may have the tax of some
of the camps by this evening's mail, and the committee have, therefore,
asked that additional time be granted camps to qualify, of which you
can take advantage.

The delegate replied: "Camp No. 19, Ben Humphreys, paid
the Adjutant Genei-al a few minutes ago.''

This provoked a general laugh, Gen. Underwood remarking
that the camp would have its full representation in the morning.

Mr. Robert Campbell, a delegate through courtesy from Yazoo
City Camp No. 19, Grand Camp of Mississippi, arose and said: "I do
not know whether I have any rights upon this floor. I do not
wish to reflect upon the committee, but they have gotten our name
and number mixed. Our camp does not appear on either list read
to the convention, and I, therefore, ask what is the true status of
Camp No. 19 of Yazoo City, Mississippi? The committee read out
Camp No. 19 as Ben Humphreys, of Crystal Springs, Mississippi."

Adjutant General Moorman, at the request of the chair, ex-
plained Jt'hat the camp from Yazoo City, Miss., was not, nor never
had been, admitted into the United Confederate Veterans, and that
their number, nineteen, was the one given them by the State Associa-
tion, Qf Mississippi, and that Jfo. 19 of tbe United Confederate Vet§«

62 Third Animal Meeting and Reunion

rans was Ben Humphreys Camp of Crystal Springs, and that his Yazoo
City camp had never joined the United Confederate Veterans.

Mr. Campbell said papers from their camp had been forwarded
to Adjutant General E. T. Sykes ; but Gen. Moorman assured him
that such papers had not been received at bis office.

Gen. Jackson — "I move that this report of the Committee on
Credentials be now received and adopted and that the camps in de-
fault shall be given until nine o'clock to-morrow morning to pay their
dues, enabling the committee to make such corrections as will entitle
them to representation. I, therefore, move that the report submitted
be received and adopted, together with the suggestions of the com-
mittee that the Camps have until 9 o'clock to-morrow morning to pay
their dues to the Adjutant General; and that the committee confer
with the Adjutant General to see who have paid, and submit an
amended report of the camps which have qualified."

Objection was raised to the hour as being too early, and it was
suggested that the hour named should be 12 o'clock. This also was
objected to, as the camps when assembled would like to exercise their
right to vote.

The hour was then suggested to be set at 10 o'clock, as being a
convenient one in every way.

A delegate from Alabama referred to the suggestion of the
chairman of the committee to take the votes of the convention viva
voce, unless & division be called for, when the votes by camps should
be taken.

Too much time would be consumed if the roll call would have to
be made for every vote as there were some 160 or 170 camps present,
and he therefore moved that the vote in the first instance simply be
taken viva voce, and, if necessary, then by camps. Continuing, he said,
"you will recognize that if on every resolution the roll is called for
votes by camps we shall consume time which could and should be
better employed, and therefore I hope the convention will allow only
accredited delegates on the floor vote viva voce in the first instance,
and if a division is called, then by camps."

Gen. Jackson — When I moved the adoption of the report I un-
derstood the votes of the convention should be taken by ayes and
noes. T certainly understood the committee, and I think I am right, to
mean that the ayes and noes should determine the pleasure of the con-
vention; and that in case of a division, voting should be by camps.
It would take us a week if we had to call the vote on each resolution
or question.

Then the delegate from Alabama asked the ruling of the chair
on the voting of camps having more delegates than they were entitled!
to.

"The chair will inform the gentleman from Alabama that irv
all questions submitted to the house the chair will first put the question
for the ayes and noes viva voce; if a division shall be called then the,
camps would necessarily be called in order."

of the United Confederate Veterans. 63

A delegate from Texas offered as a substitute that the report
be returned to the committee for reconsideration. The reason for this
motion was because of the incompleteness of the list, whereas all
camps could be qualified in the morning. A second was at once found
to this motion to recommit to the Committee on Credentials the re-
port submitted for further consideration, but a subsequent motion to
lay that motion on the table was immeditely offered. Some one asked
what effect such amotion would have. "The chair will inform the
convention that the motion, if it prevails, to lay the motion of the
gentleman from Texas on the table, does not affect the position of the
report as made to the House by the committee."

The question to lay the motion on the table was put and
carried.

Gen. Jackson — "In order to expedite business, Ithink it would
be well to accept and adopt this report, together with the recom-
mendation to give the committee further time, say until 10 o'clock to-
moiTow, to receive from the Adjutant General the rejDort of the dues
of the delinquent camps just received by him."

A delegate from Texas arose and said: "Mr. President and
Comrades: If you adopt the report of the committee, and vet give
them further time to correct their report, it appears to me that you
place the committee in a very embarrassing attitude. You say their
report is correct now, and then you give them time to correct it.
That is absurd, simply absurd. This report should not be adopted
from the fact that there are a number of camps that have paid their
per capita, and yet cannot vote because they have not been announced.
In other instances camps were not aware that they would be taxed
at this meeting; others have brought their per capita with them,
their certificates have come to them within the last two weeks, and
some since the 1st of April; those since the 1st of April are they not
entitled to representation ? The question is yes or no, and in justice
to the report of the committee leave it until to-morrow and then
adopt it."

Gen. Underwood, chairman of committee — "It is impossible for
the committee to do anything else other than that which they have
reported. They for five hours have been hard at work; went without
eating dinner, having had to lock the door of my room to keep friends
out, so as to go through this pile of manuscript — some of it not being
legible — and to ask us to go through it again is an imposition. But
the motion of Gen. Jackson covers the case entirely, that those
camps that have paid and not been reported, and that those bringing
their per capita with them, shall have the right up to ten o'clock to-
morrow morning to qualify, and that the committee be allowed to
make a supplementary report or as an amendment to this report; but
to again go over and solve out the names (which we did not attempt
to do, some of them cannot be read), is asking too much of us. This
is the first great meeting you have ever had, and it is absolutely nec-
essary to organize the convention properly so as to allow you to go
ahead with the great work."

64 Third Annual Meeting and Reunion

Gen. Cabell — "As a substitute, I ask that the committee be
allowed 'till 11 o'clock to-morrow to complete its report. There are
many camps which have been organized since the 1st of April, and
some so remote as 800 miles west of that mighty river; and many
here have come even further to sit in this convention in New Orleans.
The committee have doubtless bad much to do, and I am sorry they
lost their dinner, but the question is most serious, to right a wrong,
and I believe in every Confederate soldier here being recognized on
the floor of this convention. It is time, sir, that some common sense
and less technicality should rule. (Cheers.) This is a love-feast,
where old Confederates meet each other and talk over those stirring
times."

"I tell you, gentlemen, do not let Gen. Jackson talk you into
voting unless you know what you are doing. I am certain my sub-
stitute is right; it would be unjust to accept the report as submitted.
Many of the camps' per capita is doubtless in the hands of the Adju-
tant General or will come in by to-night's mail.

"Give the gentlemen from the Far West additional time and
adopt the substitute offered by the gentleman from Alabama. This
is a grand reunion, and those who have come to it believing they had
complied with the necessary conditions, I ask you, gentlemen, to deal
with them most kindly. Give them until ten or eleven o'clock to-
morrow morning, and let the Committee on Credentials make their
report then."

Gen. Jackson — "No man living has greater love for the old
Confederate soldier, and as a representative of Tennessee, the 'Volun-
teer State,' that furnished to the Confederacy one hundred and
eighteen regiments and over one hundred thousand men, one-sixth of
all the troops furnished the Confederacy, and an unpardoned rebel, I
yield to no man on this floor in regard to the rights and liberties of
the Confederate soldier. (Great cheers.)

"I have no desire to cut off any camp from representation for
irregularity, more especially those which have been admitted since
the 1st of April. Time can be granted them and a subsequent report
made; it does not affect the acceptance of the report to adopt it with
the recommendations, to give them 'till ten o'clock, or until any hour
that this convention may see proper. I respect the rights of every
man, and I do not intend to be placed by my friend (only I do not
believe he intended to place me) in a wrong position in regard to the
Confederate soldier.

"I nave been through this business before, and we must pro-
ceed with regularity and properly organize our body. This subse-
quent report can be brought in supplementary to the one they have
already compiled, and the camps will be entitled to all the privileges
of the floor, except that of voting, until such report shall have been
made. Far be it from me to wish to deprive any one here from rep-
resentation, much less any of the Texan s. I love the Texans, and am
proud to remember that I had many of them in my own commanc*
during the entire war/1 ■-•■....». ,

of tfie United Confederate Veterans. 65

Gen. Stephen T>. Lee — "I differ from my old friend, Gen. Ca-
bell; I do not see that any injustice whatever can be done any camp
or comrade by the adoption of Gen. Jackson's motion.

"Now, the committee has reported to the convention, so much
of their work is completed, and what would be the utility of going
over all this mass of completed work; but it would be an easy matter
for camps to pay in their per capita by to-morrow morning at nine
o'clock, or a short time thereafter, and the Adjutant General can
make a brief return as to those camps paying up. I, therefore, move
to lay the substitute on the table, and accept the motion as offered by
Gen. Jackson."

The chair — The substitute has already been laid on the table.

Motion was made that for those camps which have not paid
their money in by the proper time to have the time extended until
to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, and, therefore, that this conven-
tion shall not be called to order before that hour, so no advantage
can be taken.

Gen. Underwood — "I desire to move, since it has come to my
knowledge that some of the camps have paid in their per capita this
evening since our arrival in this convention, which could not have been
reported to the committee, their names appearing in the list of delin-
quent camps, that the report' of the Committee on Credentials would
not be made public through the press until after ten o'clock to-mor-
row, when complete returns could be made."

The motion offered by Gen. Jackson with amendment was next
in order and was carried. Motion was then put to adjourn until 10
o'clock to-morrow morning, which was unanimously carried.

The moment the convention adjourned the delegates made a
rush for the platform, and amidst the wildest cheers grasped the
hands of Generals Longstreet and Gordon. This ovation to the two
distinguished generals lasted for some time and uutil the last old sol-
dier had shaken the hand and looked into the faces of their old lead-
ers, who had stood by their side at Appomattox, so faithfully and
heroically where the flag went down to rise no more forever.

Saturday April 9th, 1892 — Morning Session.

Saturday was the second and last day of the convention of the
United Confederate Veterans. During the continuance of the session,
from 10 a. m. until 2:30 p. m., Washington Artillery Hall was crowded
to its utmost capacity with a most thoroughly representative and dis-
tinguished assemblage, in which there were many ladies present. The
gallant veterans and the chiefs under whom they fought were present
in full force, and were most enthusiastic in the advocacy of any and all
measures tending to the perpetuation of the association.

A few minutes after 10 o'clock the meeting was called to order
at Gen. Gordon's request by Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Gen. Gordon
being present, but very unwell, from the effect of the great labors
of yesterday, and the fatigue of the reception of the veterans by Gen.

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Longstreet and himself, his voice not being able to stand the strain
of makiog itself heard in the large hall. Gen. Gordon here requested
Gen. Lee to lend him his voice, act as his spokesman, and assist him
in making announcements, during the remainder of the session.

Immediately after calling the meeting to order, Gen. Lee stated
that there had been some question as to the standing of the veterans
of the Navy iu the association. He desired to have it understood that
the veterans of that department of the Confederate service were on
an equal footing with the other veterans and were entitled to all the
privileges enjoyed by them on the floor of the convention.

On motion of a delegate from Alabama to appoint a committee
of one from each of the thirteen States to recommend a place at which
the next annual meeting would take place, Gen. Waul, chairman of
the Committee on Resolutions, interrupted the motion by saying a
similar resolution had already been received and acted upon by the
committee who was ready to make its report to the convention on this
as well as other matters.

The delegate making the motion then amended the previous
one by including one member from the Indian Territory and one from
the District of Columbia. Question was raised as to the eligibility of a
representative from the latter place, but upon the assurance of the
chair that the District of Columbia had fulfilled the requirements of
the constitution, the matter was dropped.

It was moved and seconded, in order to expedite matters, that
all resolutions be referred to the Committee on Resolutions for their
consideration, and not read to the convention as had been previously
done. Carried.

On motion of a delegate from Texas the courtesy of the floor
was extended to a delegation from Corpus Christi, Texas, and they
were invited to the courtesies of the floor and to participate in the
proceedings, without the privilege of voting.

Gen. Waul announced that the Committee on Resolutions was
ready to report, and reported as follows:

Resolution offered by Col. Watt T. Cluverius, Army of Tennes-
see Camp No. 2 :

Inasmuch as the badge now worn by the Association United
Confederate Veterans is made and worn by irresponsible persons and
without the authority of the said association, be it

Resolved, That the present badge be changed or altered so that
it be reduced in size one-sixteenth of an inch and the letters U. 0. V.
be added to it as in design presented with this resolution, the design
to remain as it is, and that the proper authorities be authorized or
ordered to have the badge registered in the office of the Government
Librarian at Washington, D. C .

of Hie United Confederate veterans.

Size of Old Badge.

Size of New Badge.

The committee have considered and report the following substi-
tute for the above resolution in reference to the badge of the associa-
tion offered by Comrade Cluveiius:

Resolved, That if by so doing a copyright can be secured, the
letters U. C. V. be placed on the badge, and that the Quartermaster
General be authorized to make the change; but if no copyright can
be secured, that there be no change in the badge, which was unani-
mously adopted.

By the Committee — Recommending the appointment, as pre-
viously suggested, of a committee to report upon a place of meeting
for the next annual reunion. Adopted.

The chair appointed the following committee, to-wit:

Gen. "VV. H. Jackson, of Tennessee, chairman; Gen. W. L. Cal-
houn, of Georgia; Major Jos. Briggs, of Kentucky; Capt. R. B. Cole-
man, of Indian Territory; Major Albert Akers, of Washington, D. C. ;
Col. Watt T. Cluveiius, of Louisiana; Maj. Gen'] Ben T. DuVal, of Arkan-
sas; Col. W. L. Goldsmith, of Mississippi; Col. E. D. Hall, of North Caro-
lina; Gen. W. G. Veal, of Texas; Col. Fred. L. Robertson, of Florida;
Capt. G. H. Cole, of Alabama; J. B. Talbott, of Tennessee.

To whom was referred also the resolution of comrade K. D.
Chandler, of Florida, lor consideration and report, which was as
follows:

Resolution of comrade K. D. Chandler, of Florida that the Com-
manding General appoint one member from each State and one from
the Indian Territory, and also one from the District of Columbia, to
select the place of meeting of the next annnal reunion.

Resolution offered by Comrade H. L. Bentley, of Abilene Camp
No. 72, Texas, is as follows:

The delegates from Abilene Camp No. 72, U. C. V., of Abilene,
Taylor County, Texas, respectfully submit, by order of their camp,
^resolutions as follows:

Resolved — First. That the general organization United Con-
federate Veterans shall include all camps in the Southern States, un-
der the command of an officer to rank as general and commander-in-
chief.

Second. That there shall be two departments as now — the
East Mississippi Department and the Trans-Mississippi Department
— each to be under the command of an officer to rank as lieutenant-
general.

Third. That each State shall constitute a military division; to
be under the command of an officer to rank as major general, to be
elected aunually at the State encampments.

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Fourth. That each congressional district shall constitute a
military district, to be under the command of an officer to rank as
brigadier general, to be elected annually at district encampments.

Fifth. That the commanders of these military districts shall
by proper orders divide their respective territories into regimental
districts, so that ten camps shall be located in and constitute a district,
to be under the command of an officer to rank as colonel, who, to-
gether with a lieutenant-colonel and major shall be the regimental
held officers.

Sixth. That each camp shall be under the command of officers
as now, viz: captain, first and second lieutenants, etc.

Seventh. Ttiat the major-general of the Military Division of
Texas sh-ill be elected at this, the first meeting of the State encamp-
ment, to hold his office one year or until the next annual meeting.

Eighth. That the delegates present from the several con-
gressional or military districts shall recommend to the major-gen-
eral persons to be appointed by him as commanders in and for their
respective districts. These district commandeis (brigadier gen-
erals) to hold their offices until not less than fifteen camps or two
regiments are organized in their said respective districts, when they
will order district encampments to assemble, at which time their
succesors will be elected. If any congressional districts in the State
are not represented in this meeting, the major general shall appoint
officers to command in said districts, without waiting for recom-
mendations.

Ninth. That each brigadier general shall, on or before the
1st day of June, 1892, issue orders dividing his district into regi-
mental districts, and he shall at the same time appoint one colonel,
one lieutenant-colonel and one major in each of said districts, who
shall proceed to have organized the ten camps to constitute their
respective regiments.

Tenth. That said colonels, lieutenant-colonels and majors
shall after consultation determine where the ten camps in their re-
spective districts shall be located, and they shall select and appoint
to organize each camp the said camp officers, viz: Captain, first and
second lieutenants, who shall pledge themselves to organize said
camps when they accept said appointments. •

Eleventh. That the 4th day of July, 1892, shall be desig-
nated by the major-general of the State organization as the day on
which camps shall be organized, and that he and said brigadier-gen-
erals and colonels shall issue the necessary and proper orders to
that effect not later than the said 1st day of June, 1892.

Twelfth. That on the 1st day of August, 1892, the captains,
first and second lieutenants of said camps shall assemble on the call
of their respective colonels at places to be determined by them in
their respective regimental district and perfect the regimental or-
ganization by the election of regimental officers.

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Thirteenth. That on the 1st day of September, 1892, the
colonels, lieutenant-colonels and maj >rs of said regiments shall
assemble on the call of their respective brigadier-generals at places
to be determined by them in their respective military districts and
perfect the organization of said districts by the election of brigadier
generals.

The committee on Resolutions have considered the foregoing
resolutions, but inasmuch as they have already reported a resolution
raising a committee to revise, amend and report to the next conven-
tion a new constitution and by-laws, they recommend that these
resolutions be referred to that committee as worthy of their con-
sideration.

Recommendation adopted and referred to new Committee on
Constitution and By-Laws.

Resolution offered by Col. Price Williams, Jr., who stated
that the delegates from Raphael Semmes Camp No. 11, Mobile,
Ala., were instructed under the following resolution, viz :

Resolved, That the delegates from Raphael Semmes Camp No.
11, U. C. V., of Mobile, Ala., be and they are hereby instructed to ask
the cordial co-operation of the Confederate veterans in New Orleans
convention assembled, in the completion of the monument in Mo-
bile, Ala., to Admiral Raphael Semmes.

In obedience to these instructions I most respectfully submit
the following resolution, which will of course go to the Committee
on Rules and Regulations, viz:

Resolved, That this convention, through its delegates here
assembled, deem it a patriotic privilege to cordially respond to the
appeal of Raphael Semmes Camp No. 11, and they recommend to
the camps here represented and to those which may be hereafter
formed, earnest and continued efforts in devising ways and means
to complete in Mobile, Ala., the monument now in partial erection
to Admiral Raphael Semmes.

The committee have considered the foregoing resolutions
offered by Col. Price Williams, Jr., in behalf of the delegates from
Camp No. 11, U. C. V., Mobile, Ala., and whilst they are in hearty
sympathy with any project that would honor the memory of a man
who so gallantly carried the flag of the Confederacy on the high
seas, they are of the opinion that the Association as such should not
select one hero to the exclusion of others for monumental honors.

Raphael Semmes Camp — In offering the resolution we have
regarding the erection of a monument to Admiral Raphael Semmes,
our desire was to afford the members of this Association (compris-
ing as it does every State in the Southern Confederacy) an oppor-
tunity of doing him honor, and not that he should be selected for
monumental honors to the exclusion of others.

It was moved and seconded that the substitute be laid on the
table.

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Gen'l Waul. — "Mr. Chairman, I desire to say that I am in favor
of the substitute. If we were able we would build monuments as
hio-h as heaven for every man who consecrated himself to the service
of ''the South, and by his valor added to her glory in deeds of arms;
but our means are so limited it would not be well, in my opinion, to
make a selection for monumental honors."

The substitute being duly seconded was put before the
House and carried.

It was moved that those present as delegates from camps not
enrolled in the United Confederate Veterans, be accorded the cour-
tesies of the floor, but not to take part in the proceedings, and that
the ladies present would also be given seats, which was carried.

The Committee on Credentials here brought in their supple-
mentary report.

Chairman Underwood reported that with the assistance of
General Moorman the committee had been enabled to prepare a cor-
rect roster of the standing of the camps under the rules. That the
committee expressed the wish and hope that this would be a lesson to
all camps hereafter to send in the per capita within the time pre-
scribed by the constitution on or before April 1st of each year. That
this delay had seriously retarded the business of the convention, had
made the duties of the committee very laborious, and had hindered
Adjutant General Moorman in the discharge of his duties, delayed his
reports, and interfered with all the routine he had mapped out, kept
him away from the convention, and prevented him from meeting old
friends and comrades he had expected to see upon this occasion, all on
account of the dilatoriness of camps in complying with the law. The
patience which Adjutant General Moorman has shown in this matter
and his entire disregard of his own comfort and pleasure is worthy of
the very highest consideration by this body.

The report of the corrected roster was read by Col. John P.
Hickman, and after some minor additions were made, a discussion of
the report was had. The report is as follows:

SUPPLEMENTAL EEPORT.

New Orleans, La., April 9th, 1892.

General J. B. Gordon,

President of Convention, United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La. :

Sir— The Committee on Credentials have the honor to present
this supplemental report, under instructions from the convention in
bession assembled. In obedience to the order of the convention Adju-
tant General Moorman received moneys from delinquent camps until
10:15 a.m. to-day, and then furnished to this committee the roster of those
camps which qualified for representation under constitutional require-
ments, and the list furnished has been examined by this committee,
and is herewith reported approved as follows, to-wit:

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Following are additional camps entitled to vote:

TEXAS.

Ben McCulloch Camp No. 29 ... . Cameron 15 votes

Ben McCulloch " 3l) Decatur 3 "

R. E. Lee " G6 Lampasas 12 "

Pat Cleburne " 88 ... . Cleburne 3 "

R. Q. Mills " 106. . . .Frost 2 "

W. P. Townsend " 111 ... . Calvert 9 "

Albert Sidney Johnston " 115 ... Meridian 8 "

Albert Sidney Johnston " 116... Hamilton 12 "

Jeff Davis " 117 . . . .Goldthwaite 2 "

Stonewall Jackson " 118 ... . Brownwood 2 u

Joseph E. Johnston " 119 ...Gainesville. 5 "

J. B. Robertson " 124 .. . Bryan 8 "

Camp Cabell " 125 . . . .Vernon 4 "

Young County " 127 ... Graham 3 "

John G-. Walker " 128. . . . Madisonville 2 "

Sul Ross " 129 .... Denton 9 "

Crockett " 141 ... . Crockett 11 "

R. E. Lee " 158 .... Fort Worth 6 "

Alvarado " 160 ... Alvarado 3 "

Horace Randall " 163 .... Carthage 4 "

Sul Ross " 164 ... . Bonharn 2 "

Albert Sidney Johnston " 165 Taylor 2 "

Hill County " 166 ... . Hillsboro 10 "

Jeff Davis " 168 ... Paint Rock 2 "

Tom Green " 169.. . Weatherford 2 "

Matt Ashcroft " 170 Sulphur Springs . . 5 "

Sul Ross " 172 Henrietta 2 "

MISSISSIPPI.

Ben. Humphreys
Hattiesburg
Kitt Mott

Camp

No. 19 ..
21..
23..

Robert A. Smith

24 .

W. A. Montgomery
Claiborne

26..
" 167..

Total 148.

Crystal Springs. . . 6 votes

.Hattiesburg 2 "

. Holly Springs 3 "

Jackson 5 "

.Edwards 3 "

.Port Gibson 2 "

Total 21

LOUISIANA.

Camp Moore Camp No. 60 Tangipahoa 2 votes

DISTKICT OF COLUMBIA.

Washington City Confederate Association Camp No. 171, Washington

City, 2 votes.

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Ben T. DuVal

Catawba

AEKANSAS.

Camp No. 146 ... . FortT Smith

NORTH CAROLINA.

Camp No. 162 Newton . . .

2 votes

3 votes

Leaving the following camps not entitled to vote, as no report
of the payment of their per capita has reached this committee up to
this hour.

Palestine

Camp No

.44..,

, .Palestine.

Albert Sidney Johnston

48...

..Tyler.

Howdy Martin

65...

, . Athens.

Taylor County

69..

. . Abilene.

Abilene

72..

. Abilene.

W. J. Hardee

73..

. . Wichita Falls.

Merkel

((

79..

..Merkel.

Rosser

82..

. . Mt. Enterprise,

Erath and Comanche

85..

. Dublin.

Stonewall Jackson

91..

. .Atlanta.

E. C. Walthall

[(

92 .

. Sweet Water.

Jno. B. Hood

((

103..

. . Austin.

Shropshire-Upton

112..

. . Columbus.

Camp Moody

123..

. .Buffalo Gap.

Robert E. Lee

126..

. .Ladonia.

Ex-Cocf. Ass'n Coryell Co.

135..

. . Gatesville.

Tom Green

136..

. Hempstead.

F. R. Lubbock

138..

. .Lubbock.

Camp Rogers

«(

142 .

. . Caldwell.

Geo. D. Manion

W. W. Loring

154..

. . Roby.

Gonzales

GEORGIA.

156..

. . Gonzales.

Jno. B. Gordon

Camp No. 50 . .

. . Spring Place.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Stephen Elliott Camp No. 51 .... St. George's.

Geo. T. Ward
Patton Anderson

FLORIDA .

Camp No. 53. . . .Palmetto.
59 . . . Monticello.

Kansas City

MISSOURI.

Camp No. 80 Kansas City.

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ARKANSAS.

Camp Cabell Camp No. 89 Bentonville.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Sampson Camp No. 137. . . .Clinton.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

JNO. C. UNDERWOOD,

Chairman ;
JNO. P. HICKMAN,
E. M. HUDSON,
FRED. L. ROBERTSON,

with the following recommendations:

That the President of the North Carolina Confederate Veteran
Association, Col. E. D. Hall, who is here present, and has stated that
they are forming camps in his State, but that North Carolina was un-
able to send the representation to this convention, she would have liked
to, but that every energy was being and would continue to be made to
bring every ex-Confederate into line and have the camps to enroll
under our banner.

I therefore ask, that the delegation from North Carolina be ex-
tended the same courtesy as has been accorded the Virginia delega-
tion, without privilege of vote.

Also to Gen. Castleman to have the courtesy of the floor as a
delegate, but not with the privilege to vote. His camp could take no
action until the 12th of the month, which is subsequent to this meet-
ing, and could not be enrolled under this banner.

I move that he be seated upon the same privilege as that given
to Virginia.

Gen. Schaumberg here moved the adoption of the report, with
all the recommendations, which was duly seconded.

A delegate of Ben. McCulloch Camp No. 29 of Cameron,
Texas, rose and asked, ''Is it true that one delegate is allowed for
every twenty (20) members, and one for a fraction over ? If so,
my camp, instead of fourteen (14) should have fifteen votes," This
was agreed to.

Gen. Cabell— 'T want the attention of this House for a few-
moments. A number of camps are reported who paid their initia-
tion fee of two dollars, but they are distributed over such a large
section of country that doubtless their per capita tax has been delayed.
Now I ask you all, shall these delegates who came here in good faith,
believing that they had complied with all the requirements of the
organization, because of the detention of the mails be debarred
entering into full fellowship with the old Confederates here ? If
the camps whose per capita has not yet come to hand be given the
privilege of voting, I feel assured that they will pay every dollar
^hatisdue. (A yoice from, the assembly scouted; "I'll fee v you, !")

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Many of the delegates have come a long way for the pleasure of
meeting old comrades and sharing in these deliberations, and is it
not hard to find that after their long travel that they are denied
representation ? I wish to violate no rules, but I ask that a liberal
construction be put upon the non arrival of their per capita.

"I, therefore, move that the camps which have paid their initia-
tion fee, even if their per capita tax has not been received, that they
be allowed all the rights and privileges on this floor now enjoyed
by other delegates."

This motion received hearty seconding, but before being put
a delegate from Alabama asked that the constitution be read on
that question.

The chair requested the Adjutant General to read the consti-
tution on that question, but Gen. Cabell read the article pertinent
to the subject, which is as follows:

Article 5th of the constitution. Certificates of membership
in the association of United Confederate Veterans will be issued to
organizations applying for admission by the general when their
constitution, by-laws and roll of members has been examined and
found to conform with the requirements of this constitution. A fee
of $2 shall accompany such applications, which fee shall be placed in
the general treasury of the association. Each camp to whom a cer-
tificate is issued, and belonging to this general association, shall
annually in April forward to the adjutant general a true and correct
roll of its members in good standing on that date, and shall at the
same time pay into the the general treasury the sum of ten cents
per capita for each member shown on such roll; and no camp shall
be permitted representation in a general convention of the United
Confederate Veterans until the said camp shall have paid said an-
nual tax and all other amounts due by such camp.

Amendment to the Constitution. Besolced, That no camp,
shall be allowed representation in any meeting of the United Con-
federate Veterans unless the camp shall have on or before the first
day of April preceding the meeting paid all amounts due as initia-
tian fee, $2, and also the amount due per capita.

Gen. Cabell continuing, said: "Now, I ask of you to construe
liberally the article with the amendment I have just read to you. I
ask you to look at it in its proper light, that every old Confederate
soldier that comes here can have a voice in this convention, whether
or not they have paid the per capita demanded under that clause.

"Many of the new camps have not yet received a copy of the
constitution and are not aware that the per capita must be paid by
the first of April, and are, therefore, not to blame for their short-
coming. So I ask you, comrades, to be liberal in your construction
of this, and give them the recognition desired."

Gen. Underwood — "Mr. President, "I dislike very much being
drawn into a discussion, but I think you should know the facts as
they are, and I will preface my remarks by saying that in the per.

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petuation of any organization or any body, strict compliance with
the constitution is the only means to maintain existence, and, there-
fore, while being as liberal as possible, we believed it was absolutely
necessary that we follow the rules of the constitution.

"If we allow the rules to be set aside now, then, by the Eter-
nal God, there will not be another meeting of this Association. We
cannot hold it together unless we are governed by what the consti-
tution expressly commands. When I was instructed by the Adju-
tant General as to what was expected of me, I believed it meant
something, and if I had not believed in the objects and purposes of
this Association I would not have gone to Washington especially to
have seen you, Mr. President, about the Northern States in my divi-
sion, and spent the one hundred dollars for expenses which was
cheerfully given. It is impossible to organize any body, whether a
political institution, a church, a state, an aimy, or an association,
without some kind of rules or regulations governing same, and when
such rules and regulations are accepted, then, by the eternal pow-
ers, they should be rigidly adhered to.

"To show you how liberal the committee was, after we went
in my rooms, I saw that if we ruled strictly, that is, allowing repre-
sentation only to those camps paying their per capita by the 1st of
April, a very large number of camps would be excluded from the
proceedings of this convention; for instance, only one camp in
Louisiana f ulfilled,the requirements, a few from Kentucky and so on,
all of which I know to be correct, for I checked these things myself.
A very large number of the Texas camps had not paid up; so I said
to the committee at the time of making our report last night, that
the most liberal thing we could do was to allow all camps that had
paid their per capita up to the holding of this convention the privilege
of voting, with the recommendation that additional time be allowed
delinquent camps to pay up their dues. This would give all camps
present an opportunity to secure representation, especially those ad-
mitted since the 1st of April.

"Ail have had an opportunity of paying up this morning, and
those camps not availing themselves of the additional time cannot
expect to be accorded anything but the courtesy of the floor, and
certainly not the privileges enjoyed by the camps which fulfilled the
requirements of the constitution.

'•Business is business, and the pity is that we do not do
enough of it. I am an intense Southern man, and the reason is
originally because of birth, but principally because of the education
I received during my service in the Confederacy, not so much in ac-
tive service, for the largest part was spent in the various prisons of
the North (cheers and applause), and, sir, I understand the absolute
necessity of strict regularity, if we are to make something out of
this more than a mere mass meeting.

"We have come here for the consideration of many objects prin-
cipally the preservation of our history, some of which I have begun

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and our proceedings therefore should be characterized by measure8
adopted by men of sense arid business. Therefore I think the com-
mittee's Supplemental report should be accepted as final.

"These are the facts of the case, and I thank you for the courtesy
shown in listening to me, but I think it my duty to tell you the true
state of affairs, and then submit it to the convention, whether our
labors shall stand or not."

The Chair — The motion is before the House, to admit, all camps
present, which have paid their initiation fee, to the full privileges of
the floor.

Gen. Schaumberg — I move to lay that motion on the table;
which was im mediately seconded.

The Chair — It is moved and seconded to lay the motion on the
table to admit all camps present, which have paid their initiation fee, to
the full privileges of the floor. What is the pleasure of the convention ?

The motion was carried.

Gen. Schaumberg — I call for my original motion to adopt the
supplemental report of the committee.

The Chair — The adoption of the supplemental report [of the
Committee is next in order.

The Chair — "It is moved and seconded that the supplemental
report of the Committee on Credentials, with all its recommendations,
be accepted . Are you ready for the question ?" which was carried .

The Committee on Resolutions continued their report, through
Gen. T. N. Waul, of Texas, chairman.

Resolution by Baton Rouge Camp No. 17, to establish a simi-
lar memorial day throughout the South.

The committee are informed that in a number of States
memorial day has been made a legal holiday by statute, and as these
States have not adopted the same day, it is impracticable to fix the same
day in all the States for observance, which report was adopted.

Resolution by comrade W. H. Brooker, of Albert Sidney John-
ston Camp No. 144, San Antonio, Texas:

Resolved; that the general commanding appoint a committee of
eleven ladies from each Southern State, whose flag was represented in
the Confederacy, to look after the graves of our fallen heroes who lie
on Northern soil, and to devise ways and means to have erected suit-
able monuments in the land where they lie, to commemorate their
heroic fortitude and perpetuate their names from oblivion.

The committee have considered the above resolution, and whilst
the object is one that would gratify every true soldier, thev do not
think it can be accomplished at this time, and report adversely.

Gen Underwood — I move that that resolution shall lie on the
table .

Which was carried.

Resolution by comrade A. D. Cohen, of Indian River Camp No,
47, Florida, Division, is as follows;

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Appreciating the services of Col. G. W. M. Williams of the
gallant Forty-sixth Georgia Infantry, who died in the service, he it
resolved by this convention of bis comrades that his widow be author-
ized to wear the badge of the United Confederate Veterans.

-*-" The committee offered the following substitute:
^ That Confederate soldiers and sailors, their mothers, wives,
widows- and daughters, and none others, shall be authorized to wear
the badge and button adopted by this association.

Which was adopted.

Gen. Underwood — Does it iuclude sons and daughters of vet-
erans as well as mothers and wives?

The chair replied that it did.

Gen. Boyd — I should like to know what disposition will be
made with the resolutions now on the desk; will they not be read
first to the convention, then referred to the committee?

The Chair — By a previous motion, to expedite matters, it was
unanimously agreed to turn all resolutions over to the committee in
the first instance, and submit them after with the recommendation of
the committee to the convention.

Resolution by comrade J. M. Harrell, of Arkansas:

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention be returned to
Senator John W. Daniel for the eloquent, instructive and masterly
oration delivered by him before this convention to-day.

Besoh'ed, That the convention request his permission to publish
the same, that ten thousand copies be printed at the expense of mem-
bers thereof for public distribution.

Substitute for resolution of comrade J. M. Harrell, of Arkansas:

The committee have considered the resolutions in reference to
the speeches of Hon. John W. Daniel and the Commanding General,
and report as a substitute the resolutions —

1st. That the thanks of the association are tendered Senator
Daniel for his able and eloquent address.

2d . That both addresses be published in the pamphlet proceed-
ings of the convention.

Which was adapted.

A delegate arose and moved that ten thousand copies of the
speech be printed .

Dr. J. Wm. Jones — I would like to have at least twenty-five
thousand copies printed so that every old soldier might have a copy.

Motion was then made and carried to have fiity thousand copies
printed for distribution.

The Committee on Resolutions — This association can have
printed a certain number of books, for distribution among the camps,
and every member can order at the same time, as many as he wants,
and get them at actual cost. The funds of the association will not
permit the printing of such a large number. We, therefore, submit,
as a substitute, resolution, offered by comrade, Chipley, of Florida, as,
follows:

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Resolved, That the Adjutant General is directed to notify each
camp of this association the cost per hundred of the proceedings of
this convention, including the addresses of the Commanding General
and Hon. John W. Dauiel and the roster of our dead furnished by
Gen. Underwood, in order that each camp may order as many copies
as they desire, in addition to the copies issued by the association.

Upon being duly seconded the motion prevailed to lay the one
offered, ordering the printing of 50,000 copies on the table.

The chair — The substitute offered by tbe committee, embrac-
ing Comrade Chipley's resolution, now comes up. What will you do
with it?

It was unanimously adopted.

Gen. Underwood — It has come to my knowledge since the
committee submitted its supplemental report that a fine representa-
tion is here from Arkansas. Hon. J. M. Harrell has here some dele-
gates that are not members of our Association, and like those from
Kentucky, desire to have the courtesy of the floor, but without the
privilege of voting. There is also a State senator, from Kentucky,
present, representing the eastern part of the State, who would
like to have the courtesy of the floor, and as chairman of the creden-
tial committee, I would ask for these gentlemen, and one who was my
adjutant general when I was acting governor of Kentucky, that they
be extended the courtesies desired.

The chair — The courtesies are extended them with pleasure.

Gen. Jackson — I would ask the courtesy of this assembly while
I read something pertaining to tbe Veteran Confederate States Cav-
alry Association, Camp No. 9, the list of vice-presidents as follows:

Alabama — Gen. Jos. Wheeier, W. W. Allen, Montgomery; Col.
Joseph Hodgson, Mobile; Sergeant J. B. Head, Birmingham.

Tennessee — Capt. Thomas L. Perkins, Franklin, Capt. George
B. Guild, Nashville; Capt. J. H. Martin, Memphis; Major Moses
Clift, Chattanooga.

Kentucky — Genl. W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington; Major J.
B. Briggs, Russell ville; Private W. L. Delaney, Bowling Green; Pri-
vate J. D. Hunt, Lexington.

Texas — Gen. W. G. Blaine, Fairfield; Judge R. E. Beckhorn,
Fort Worth; Gen. J. M. Claiborne, New Bonham; Sergeant R. H.
Phillips, LaGrange.

Gen. Jackson requested that other States send in their lists of
their vice-presidents as soon as possible.

Gen. Jackson also announced that all cavalrymen should meet-
that afternoon at Memorial Hall at 2:30 o'clock, to form in line for
the review.

The chair — No resolutions on the table, the Committee on
Resolutions will please continue their report.

Gen. Waul — The committee will report a little later with, your
permission,

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Reports to the convention were next in order, and Major-Gen-
eral John C. Unrlerwood, commanding Division of the Northwest was
calltd on to read bis report.

Gen. Underwood on rising, said: "Mr. President and gentle-
men of the convention— I live in Kentucky and reside in Chicago. I
am a member of two camps in Kentucky, and of one (No. 8) in Chi-
cago. It is a much more difficult thing to belong to a camp in a city
like Chicago, where we have to meet in individual offices and hold up
the enthusiasm by Saturday ni«ht meetings on the enemy's ground.

"I received the appointment (which I did not expect) from
the general commanding as major-general of the Northwest, including
the division West of the Alleghanies, which is referred to in General
Orders No. 22. Among other things the major-generals commanding
were directed to proceed to gather the names, compile the names and
commands of all the Confederate dead buried in the various prisons
and cemeteries of the North, put their graves in order and see that
that they are kept in proper condition and to monument their remains.

"I was never sufficiently high in the Confederacy to know how
to make orders, but I had the privilege of obeying. I did the best I
could, and I have this report to make to Gen. Moorman. I have the
books with me, and have got the graves numbered, the number of
their companies, and am happy to give them to those subscribing to
the monumental fund as a bonus, as a gift. (Cheers.) I have never
charged a Confederate soldier for anything that I could spare, and I
know that you will be interested in the report which I shall read.
This first part is only to show you how the officer obeyed the orders
given. I will now read my report."

Headquarters Division or the Nobthwest, \
Chicago, Ills., April 7th, 1892. )

Major General Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff :

Sir — I have the honor to make the following report with regard
to the discharge of certain duties, under orders from the Commanding
General:

I. Pursuant to Paragraph 1 of General Orders ho. 26 from
general headquarters, and after receiving commisson, I on February
2d, 1892, assumed command of the division of the Northwest and ap-
pointed a provisional staff (see copy of General Orders No. 1, Division
Northwest, previously forwarded).

II. In obedience to Paragraph 2 of General Orders No. 26 from
general headquarters, referring to Paragraph 11 of General Orders
No. 22 of the same series, I began the compilation of data relating to
the Confederate dead buried within the territory comprising my di-
vision district; and to date have been so fortunate as to be able to
present herewith, as part and parcel of this report, two pamphlets
containing rosters of deceased Confederate soldiers — one, embracing
4317 names, etc., of the dead originally interred at the prison Camp

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"Douglas," and afterward removed to and buried in the Confederate
quarter of "Oakwoods" cemetery, Chicago, Ills ; and the other, em-
bracing 2400 names, etc., of the dead buried in the Confederate ceme-
tery on Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, and in the Camp Chase prison
cemetery and City cemetery, Columbus, O.

III. I was unable to obtain sufficient data relating to the dead
buried at other points to justify publication thereof iu pamphlet form,
but know that there are the remains of some 1700 Confederates who
died in Camp Morton prison and lie buried in the old cemetery at In-
dianapolis, Ind., the graves and grounds there being in a dilapidated
condition.

IV. The State of Ohio has taken better care of the Confeder-
ate graves within its boundary than the other States reported; and
has, by gubernatorial authority, had compiled complete rosters of such
dead, transcribed and presented herewith in classified pamphlet form;
the dead at "Oakwoods" cemetery, Chicago, number over 6000, but
owing to the loss of some of the registers the names of about two-
thirds of the number, only, could be ascertained, and their graves are
indifferently kept, though in better condition than those at Indianap-
olis. Altogether, the remains of the deceased Confederate heroes re-
ferred to, are neglected and need attention; and, with the view of in-
stituting a systematic reform, I have undertaken the raising of
$25,000, more or less, with which to place both graves and grounds in
good condition and monument the dust of those who gave life to the
"Lost Cause" and who now lie sleeping beneath sod foreign to that of
their nativity.

V. Pursuant to the intent and purpose, expressed in the pre-
ceding paragraph, I have already secured a cash subscription of $900,
a guarantee subscription of $1000, a conditional construction subscrip-
tion of $2000 — all aggregating $3900, which added to the money in
bank to the credit of the treasurer of the F,x-Confederate Association
of Chicago (the net proceeds of lecture by General John B. Gordon
with interest thereou, etc.), $1489.40, makes a total available asset for
Confederate monumental purposes at Chicago of $5380.40; and, from
promises made me and the natural expectation of pecuniary realiza-
tion through personal work done, I feel assui'ed of the ability to erect
a monument over the Confederate dead in "Oakwoods" cemetery,
Chicago, at a cost of from $5000 to $10,000; and at other points, with
different valuations, as after considerations.

VI. On March 5th, 1$92, I was directed by the commanding
general to "pi-oceed at once to the State of Kentucky to organize
camps in the United Confederate Veterans;" and pursuant to such in-
structions, I communicated with many local ex-Confederate associations
within that State, made several visitations to its principal cities, and
to date have merged into the United Confederate Veterans the "Con-
federate Veteran Association of Kentucky," comprising 281 members
organized into seyej} camps located, af, .pexjngtou, Paris, Cynthiaua,

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Georgetown, Versailles, Harrodsburg and Lawrenceburg; have secured
the organization of forty ex-Confederates at Bowling Green into a
camp United Confederate Veterans and have many more promised
and in process of organization, which I shall hereafter materialize un-
less the order of authority is revoked.

VII. Having, in compliance with your suggestion, recommend-
ed a most active, zealous and worthy ex-Confederate worker, it was
my pleasure to receive from you and present to President John Boyd
of the Confederate Veteran Association of Kentucky, a commission
as Major General United Confederate Veterans; and to muster and
install into office in the presence of over 125 members of his command,
who received the information of the introduction of the "United"
Federation in Kentucky and hailed the elevation of their comrade to
the command of the division with unanimity and great enthusiasm.

VIII. As a "Southerner" by birth, education and past service
I am a devotee to the Southern people, of their principles of virtue
and honor, of their chivalrous deeds at arms; and, desiring to pre-
serve and assist in securing a true history of the past, I herewith re-
port the statistical data previously enumerated as the most complete
I could obtain; and, the number of camps formed, as the greatest I
could secure — within the month of operation.

IX. On the whole I have done the very best I could with the
means and opportunities at hand, and fully appreciating the honor
conferred on me, I remain

Your comrade and obedient servant,

JNO. C. UNDERWOOD,
Major General Division Northwest.

Gen. Underwood was frequently interrupted during the read-
ing of his report with applause, and at its conclusion the delegates
evidenced their approbation by the wildest cheers.

During the reading of Major General Underwood's report
Senator John W. Daniel was announced and was received by the vet-
erans standing and was greeted with loud and hearty cheers. The
chair, in welcoming him to a seat on the platform, presented him as
follows to the convention:

"It is my happy privilege to present to you our glorious orator
of yesterday, Senator Daniel, of Virginia."

And three cheers were given by the old veterans for the peer-
less orator.

Delegate Chipley, of Florida, offered the following resolution :

Resolved,, That this report be adopted without reference to the
Committee on Resolutions, viz :

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention are due and are
hereby given Major General Underwood for his faithful performance
of the laborious duties assigned to him by the general commanding.

Resolved, That his report and the rosters of our dead, pre-
pared by Gen. Underwood, be published as an appendix to the pro-
ceedings of this convention.

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And he also suggested that all other commanders emulate his
example.

Seconded and adopted by a rising vote.

Gen. Underwood tnen thanked the convention as follows: "No
officer deserves auy thanks for doing his duty, but I thank you, nev-
ertheless, most sincerely, that you have received my report with such
evidences of appreciation. I would, however, ask you to strike out
one part of the resolution — that which requires the publication of
the rosters of the dead. It will cost you six hundred dollars to pub-
lish anything like the number I have (6000). They were published
at my expense, aud I will give away what I have here with me and
gladly send copies to eacti individual who will write me at No. 64
Exchange Building, Chicago, or leave his name and address with Col.
John P. Hickman, who is a member of the Tennessee delegation. I
have some of the books with me. Of the dead buried in Oakwoods
Cemetery, Chicago, Texas has six or seven hundred dead; Tennessee,
seven hundred and forty-seven; Louisiana, I think, one hundred and
thirty-seven, and so on. Tney are all classified here (touching the
book in his hand) and according to State and regiments. North
Carolina has one regiment that buried there two hundred and ten
men. To think of a regiment being put in that prison by the Lake,
and nearly all of them to die there, lor two hundred and ten men was
a large regiment at one period of the war. The number of books I
have with me is between sixty and seventy, and may be yours for the
asking."

An amendment was offered, as requested by Gen. Underwood,
regarding the publication of the rosters of the dead, and carried.

The rush for books lasted a few seconds, when order was re-
stored and the business of the convention proceeded with.

The chair then called for the report of the Surgeon General,
none of the other major generals having prepared a report to submit
to the convention.

Dr. Joseph Jones, Surgeon General, prefaced his report, in the
following words: -'Mr. President and Fellow Comrades — I have in my
hand a publication which presents my labors during the last three
years in reference to the members of the medical corps of the army
and navy of the Confederate States. There are two objects of great
importance which I have striven to accomplish, the first is as far as
possible to collect and preserve all records of the medical corps of the
Confederate army and navy; and second, to determine by actual
investigation and inquiry the numbers and condition of the surviving
Confederate soldiers who have been disabled by wounds and diseases
received in their heroic defense of the rights and liberties of the
Southern States.

"I have examined rosters, looked into reports, and gathered
what data I could to compile the accompaming report or table of
the surgeons and assistant surgeons who marched with you and
were by your side through all the contingencies of the field. The

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summary I have is rather incomplete, for where there are three thou-
sand or more men, it is hard to be accurate, and I would ask that all
surgeons and assistant surgeons living would please send me a roster
of their medical officers and their place of residence, and if dead, the
time they died. In carryiug out my second object I found the best
plan was to correspond with the governors of the different Southern
States, and have published their replies by States. Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Mississippi,
and Louisiana have not been negligent in preserving authentic rec-
ords of the war; but from the other replies it will be seen how incom-
plete my work necessarily is, but I have published this pamphlet rec-
oi'd at my own expense as the best I could obtain with my limited op-
portunity of securing accurate data.

"These have been the two objects which I have had in view
to accomplish. You will find such data in this report as I think
will enable us to enter upon our future work more easily.

''With me this has been a labor of love, involving as it has a
large expenditure of time, labor and money, but I have cheerfully
responded to my duties, and will be more than compensated if I
accomplish anything in the direction of preserving the records of
the many noble men who followed the fortunes of the Southern
army. Even if I never accomplish any other result than to excite
sympathy for our old soldiers, their widows and orphans, I will feel
that I have not labored in vain. I have always tried to do what I
could for every Confederate soldier, and any of them who have been
to me since the war have always found me ready to aid him in every
way in my power.

"This work I expect to continue, as I consider it amongst the
holiest duties of my life. It is a labor of love for me to aid in the
advancement of our sacred cause, and I thank the general com-
manding for his univeisal kindness and courtesy to me in this
position."

[This useful, invaluable and grand report, which is a monument to the
ability, labor and patriotism (he having previously published and paid for a large
number of copies himself at an expense of over $150.00) of the distinguished scient-
ist physician, surgeon, and peerless citizen, Dr. Joseph Jones, Surgeon General
of the United Confederate Veterans, will be found in the appendix to this book.]

Adjutant General.

Dr. J. B. Cowan, of Tennessee — I move the adoption of that
report, with thanks, and that it be published in connection with the
other reports which have just been passed.

The Doctor is right, the medical faculty ought to gather data
in every direction, and he is doing the work intelligently, and dis-
charging a sacred obligation in gathering that data as history to this
association.

I am in hearty sympathy with that endeavor. The surgeons,
sir, are a class of men that in the struggle of the "Lost Cause" dis-

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tinguished themselves in the midst of conflict, ministered to your
needs, and that comrades, shared the common dangers with you; and
it is said, Mr. Chairman, that the greatest character is the man who
sacrifices himself for the good of his fellow-man, and if that be true,
no class sacrificed more than the surgeons that followed the fortunes
of war. I am prouder to-day of having served on the medical staff,
from 1861 till the 10th of May, 1865, than of anything that could be
given me in this wide world.

I am in sympathy with the Doctor, and I move that a vote of
thanks be tendered him, and that his report be published with the
other reports, the one by my friend from Kentucky, just now submit-
ted, and the others to follow.

The motioD was heartily seconded and passed unanimously.

Adjutant General Moorman then read the following report:

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, )
New Orleans, La., April 8, 1892. j

Gen. John B. Gordon, Commanding United Confederate Vet-
erans: General — I had the honor to receive the appointment from
you of Adjutant General of the United Confederate Veterans on the 2d
day of July, 1891. It was some time after before I received the papers
and documents, and about the 6th day of September, 1891, I com-
menced the work of organizing camps in earnest.

In revolving plans to accomplish success I conceived the idea of
reviving interest through the medium of your eloquent and convinc-
ing address made at the time of your election as General command-
ing, Sept. 21, 1889.

I used the newspaper directory and sent your address accom-
panied by a circular letter in the nature of an appeal to the press of
the South requesting every paper in fifteen States to publish it on
Sunday, the 6th of September, and to write an editorial, and to send
me copies of the papers. My effort met with quick and patriotic re-
sponse. Your address was placed in the hands of every veteran in
the South. It acted like magic. Responses and applications came
pouring in from nearly every State and success was assured. [Cheers.]

At this time thirty-three camps had joined the organization; to-
day it numbers 160, (great cheers,) distributed as follows: Division of
the Northwestl, North Carolina 1, Missouri 1, South Carolina 2, Indian
Territory 2. Arkansas 2, Georgia 3, Alabama 5, Kentucky 9, Mississippi
14, Tennessee 14, Florida 17, Louisiana 20, Texas 69; total, 160 camps
(loud cheers and applause]. As is usual with all new organizations,
there being so many details and explanations, has made the work very
laborious. This office has sent out about 1400 letters and commission
receipts. Most of the letters were written by me personally, and I have
received about 1300 letters; have besides issued and distributed about
5000 circulars, 1500 constitutions, and 1500 copies of minutes of re-
unions at Chattanooga, Tenn., Jackson, Miss., and organization in

of the United Confederate Veterans. 85

New Orleans; also about 1000 commissions, and had printed 500
copies each general and special orders and circulars, making a total
of 22,500. Also 2000 special orders and 1500 circular letters, out of
which about 15,000 have been distributed. [Cheers.]

The officers of all camps which have sent in lists of officers
have been commissioned, besides all the general officers and their
staff, and charters have been mailed to every camp, and copies of all
general and special orders, circulars, minutes, etc., also furnished each
camp.

The following membership fee and per capita tax received-
$1312.83; expenditures, $778; cash on hand, $534.83, itemized state-
ment of which is hereto attached and is as follows:

The Adjutant General's department is now fully supplied with
a complete outfit of all necessary books, blanks, stationery etc. There
is a complete registry kept of all commissions, charters and everything
sent out of the office, and a receipt required for the same, which is
kept on file. The books of the office show a record of even thino-
done. °

The orders issued by your direction in regard to giving rank
to general officers and their staffs, appointment of brigadier generals,
and additional rank of captain to commanders of camps, the issuance
of commissions and the adoption of a seal have all met with almost
universal approval. Also your order creating the division of the
Northwest and division east of the Alleghanies; also partitioning
Texas into five divisions on account of its size and being so difficult of
access in some portions, have been approved from nearly every direction.
I have found it impracticable to carry out the provision of article 5 of
the amendments to the constitution, both on account of the ^reat ex-
pense attached thereto, and no funds on hand to pay with until lately,
and also because its requirements delay the admission of camps so long-
it causes them to withdraw their application for membership; I there*
fore suggest its repeal.

Every State has organized camps except Virginia, and your ap-
pointments for Major Generals have been made in every State except
Alabama; and there being five camps now formed in that State, there
will be no necessity for an appointment bv you, as you can issue an
order for an election of Major General.

In the organization of so many new camps, I have, of course,
encountered many difficulties, but I am happy to say there has been
no friction in any quarter, but the utmost harmony has prevailed.
[Cheers.]

In conclusion, I desire to say I feel proud to place in your
hands my report, showing the great advance the organization has
made under your leadership and direction, and at the same time de-
sire to greet and thank the veterans from all the States who have been
in correspondence with the Adjutant General's office, and have shown
me so much consideration and courtesy. There is also another pleas-
ant duty which I desire to perform, and that is, to thank Gen. J. A.

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Chalaron, assistant Adjutant General, for valuable counsel and assist-
ance in my arduous duties.

With great respect,

GEO. MOOKMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

At the conclusion of the reading of the report the delegates
cheered and applauded for some time.

For itemized statement of receipts and expenditures referred
to in foregoing report, see appendix.

The Chair — Before the adoption of this report Hon. J. Taylor
Ellyson, delegate from R. E. Lee Camp of Virginia and Mayor of the
city of Richmond, wishes to be allowed the privilege of speaking to
you. What is your pleasure?

Consent being unanimous, Mayor Ellyson was asked to come to
the stand .

He spoke as follows:

Mr. President and Comrades — The Adjutant General in his re-
port makes a statement which is true, as he intends it, but which un-
explained might be misunderstood.

We have been received with so much courtesy, not merely that
which always exist between old soldiers, but have received marks of
such distinguished consideration, that we feel more than honored by
the attention that has been shown us by the convention, and all the
people of this goodly State.

Therefore, what I shall say is not said in a spirit of criticism,
but rather that Virginia may have her position properly presented.

Virginia has organized no camps under the jurisdiction of
the United Confederate Veterans, but Virginia has not been back-
ward in this respect, and was the first to organize a camp of ex-Con-
federates, end in all the years since the war no people in all the South
have been more loyal to every memory of the Confederacy than the
old soldiers of Virginia (cheers). They have been not only loyal to the
memory of the dead, but through her devoted daughters have provid-
ed for the marking of their graves and the keeping green of their
memories and decorating the places where they lie buried. In Oak-
wood, where there are 18,000 Confederates buried, those graves once a
year are decorated by the fair daughters of old Virginia [cheers].
Virginia provided one of the first homes for the care of the old sol-
diers, and we have there now more than five hundred old soldiers,
some from every State in the South, it matters not from what State
he came, and the first man to seek admittance was not a Virginian,
he was a Mississippian [cheers]. No State has made more ample
provisions for the maintenance of the old soldier than Virginia, and
no one coming to the Home for admittance, if they were deserving,
have been turned away, no matter from whence he came we have
given him the right hand of fellowship and bade him enter [cheers].

of the United Confederate Veterans. 8?

We are not here as delegates of the United Confederate Vete-
rans, but we are here to look into your organization, to assist you in
your labors, if possible, and we have come in order that 30U might
know what we feel, and that is, that we regard it an honor, and privi-
lege, and pleasure everywhere and anywhere to keep step to the
music of the Confederate march anywhere in the line. [Cheers.]

So we have not come to unite with your organization at this
time, because we have a grand camp of our own composed of twenty-
five camps, aud we could not and would not, with strict regard to pro-
priety, enter into this organization without the consent of the grand
camp, which will not have a meeting for some time, as our action
would be more or less binding on the grand camp; but we can
tell you that even whilst we cannot at this time enter into organic re-
lation, we can bring you something, — we give you our hearts, and
wish you to know our hearts beat in sympathy with every purpose
that you have in view, and I can give you the assurance that the time
will not be very far distant, when every camp in Virginia will be
united with this organization; and at your next meeting, Virginia will
have all the rights and privileges as she has had all the delights of
this reunion. [Loud cheers.];

I thank you for your attention to my remarks concerning the
true position of Virginia. [Cheers.]

The Chair — What will you do with the Adjutant General's
report ?

Comrade R. D. Hugely, of Bob Stone Camp No. 93 of Texas,
moved that the report be received and adopted, and that the rules be
suspended and the thanks of the association be again (this being the
second time during the session) tendered Adjt. Gen. Geo. Moorman
for his untiring devotion to the interests of the Confederates and the
efficiency with which he had performed the duties of his office. [Car-
ried with cheers and applause and by a rising vote.]

Dr. Jos. Jones — I would like to make the request of all the
surgons in this convention, that they meet this afternoon at my resi-
dence, corner Camp and Washington avenue. Please take notice and
act accordingily.

Report of Quartermaster General Shipp was next in order,
which was as follows:

Office of the Quartermaster General, )

United Confederate Veterans, >

Chattanooga, Tenn., April 5th, 1892. )

General John B. Gordon,

Commanding United Confederate Veterans.

My Dear General — I have the honor to report that the duties
of this department have been mainly limited to furnishing a society
pin or badge to the various camps, bivouacs and associations belong-
ing to the United Confederate Veterans, for such members as they

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in their sovereign capacity deemed worthy to wear the same. The
method adopted for the distribution of said badges is as follows:

The commander, adjutant, or quartermaster of the respective
associations make a requisition on me for the number and
quality of badges wanted, accompanying the same with a remittance
of five cents per badge to meet the expenses of this department. On
receipt of said requisition I issue an official order on the manufac-
turer for the number of pins wanted. I have a written agreement
with the manufacturer to make the pins in two grades, gold at $1.25
and gold plated at fifty cents each. Also that none shall be fur-
nished except upon the order of the Quartermaster General.

I have issued since our last meeting at Jackson, Miss., June
2d, 1891, orders for 747 United Confederate Veterans society pins,
which have been distributed among the following camps:

Army of Northern Virginia, Louisiana Division, Camp No. 1.

Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division, New Orleans, Camp No. 2.

Benevolent Association, Shreveport, La., Carup No. 3.

N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, Teun., Camp No. 4.

Jeff Davis Camp, Alexandria, La., Camp No. 6.

Confederate Veterans Association, Chicago, 111., Camp No. 8.

Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association, Louisiana.* Di-
vision, New Orleans, Camp No. 9.

Ward Confederate Veteran Association, Pensacola, Fla., Camp
No. 10.

W. W. Loring Camp, Brooksville, Fla , Camp No. 13.

Washington Artillery Camp, New Orleans, Camp No. 15.

Henry St. Paul Camp, New Orleans, Camp No. 16.

Baton Rouge Camp, Baton Rouge, La., Camp No. 17.

Iberville Camp, Plaquemine, La., Camp No. 18.

Natchez Camp; Natchez, Miss., Camp No. 20.

J. J. Whitney Camp, Fayette, Miss., Camp No. 22.

Kit Mott Camp, Holly Springs, Miss., Camp No. 23.

Robert A. Smith Camp, Jackson, Miss., Camp No. 24.

Isham Harrison Camp, Columbus, Miss., Camp No. 27.

Confederate Historical Association Bivouac, Memphis, Tenn.,
Camp No. 28.

Ben McCulloch Camp, Decatur, Texas, Camp No. 30.

Vicksburg Camp, Vicksburg, Miss., Camp No. 32.

R. L. Oibson Camp, Evergreen, La., Camp No. 33.

Major Victor Maurin Camp, Donaldson, La., Camp No. 38.

Natchitoches Camp, Natchitoches, La., Camp No. 40.

Indian River Camp, Titusville, Fla., Camp No. 47.

Orange County Camp, Orlando, Fla., Camp No. 57.

Col. Ben Timmons Camp, LaGrange, Texas, Camp No. 61,

Calcasieu Camp, Lake Charles, La., Camp No. 62.

Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Kingston, Texas, Camp, No. 71.

Mississippi City Camp, Mississippi City, Miss., Camp Mo. 120.

I have just perfected arrangements to get the society pin or

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badge from one of our comrades in Chattanooga, which will enable
me to send them direct to the respective organizations on receipt of
requisition without the former delays. For the accommodation of
our comrades belonging to the United Confederate Veterans in
attendance upon the Reunion, who may wish to provide themselves
with society pins while here, I have arranged to supply them from
Memorial Hall on Camp street, but only upon a requisition from
the commanders, adjutants or quartermasters of camps, bivouacs
and associations belonging to the United Confederate Veterans. In
the absence of the above named officers at this Reunion, a requisi-
tion from the chairmen of accredited delegations to this convention
will be recognized, but only for members of their respective camps,
bivouacs or associations.

The receipts and disbursements in this department have been
as follows:

By department fees on 747 society badges at 5c. each, $37.35.

To disbursements for stationery, printing, postage, telegrams,
stenographer, etc., as per vouchers, $36.00. Balance on hand $1.35.

Thus it will be seen, while the duties of this department are
not as laborious as those of some of my predecessors, it is very evi-
dent the office is not as lucrative as it is said was the case with some
of them.

Before closing this report I wish to express my gratitude to
Mr. R. Carroll, general manager of the Queen and Crescent; Major
J. W. Thomas, president of the N., C. and St. L. Railway Company;
Major J. L. McCollum, superintendent of the W. and A. Railway
Company; the Hon. John H. Inman, of the R. and D.; Gen. Alex-
ander, of the Georgia Central, and Judge W. L. Woods, third vice-
president of the L. and N. Road, for courtesies extended this depart-
ment of the United Confederate Veterans in furnishing private cars
for the use and comfort of the general commanding and bis distin-
guished party from Washington, D. C, and the lieutenant general
and party from Chattanooga; and also to thank the railroad officers
south of the Ohio, east and west of the Mississippi, for the liberal
rates of transportation granted our comrades for the purpose of at-
tending this, the Third Annual Reunion and Convention of the
United Confederate Veterans, now convened in the city of New Or-
leans, the home of hospitality and most lovely women.

J. F. SHIPP,

Quartermaster General, United Confederate Veterans.

The Chair — What will you do with the report of the Quarter-
master General ?

Gen. Shipp — I should also liketo^include Judge W. L. Woods,
3d Vice-President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in my ex-
pression of gratitude, who furnished us through tickets to New Or-
leans and return.

It was mpved and seconded a vote of thanks be tendered, the,

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Quartermaster General, and his report be spread on the minutes of
this convention [Carried with cheers.]

Report of the Committee on Selection of Place for next Meet-
ing and Reunion, was called for and was as follows:

Mr. Chairman and Comrades — Your committee appointed to
select and suggest a place for the meeting of the next convention of
the United Confederate Veterans, resppctfully submit the following
report: They suggest Birmingham, Alabama, as the place for the
next meeting of the convention. W. H. JACKSON,

Chairman.

Gen. Jackson, chairman, said as follows:

When the committee met three places put were placed in nom-
ination—Dallas, Jacksonville, and Birmingham. [Cheers.]

Jacksonville early withdrew from the competition, leaving Bir-
mingham and Dallas in the field. Both places were ably advocated
by the parties on each side, the choice being made finally unanimous-
ly in favor of Birmingham, upon the idea that it was a more central
location, not that we were anyways indifferent to the great State of
Texas, yet, in view to enlist the hearty support of many of the States
which have not been fully represented here, we deemed it expedient to
select a place all could reach readily, and that is the reason of the
committee substituting Birmingham as your next place of meeting.
[Cheers.]

The Chair — What will be done with the report of the commit-
tee just submitted?

A delegate from Texas — I move that Birmingham be stricken
out and Dallas be inserted, and the vote be taken by camps.

Gen. Veal, of Texas— I want your attention, comrades, for a
moment. I wish to say as one of the committee to select our next
meeting place, that when Birmingham was in the majority, we made
the selection unanimous, and I have therefore nothing to take back,
but I want to say t ) you that there was a representative on that com-
mittee that did not have a camp on this floor. The majority of the
committee thought it would be more central if the meeting was held
at Birmingham, and that cheaper transportation could be secured to
that point from every part of the South. I believe from this fact alone
that Dallas would be better than Birmingham as Texas is nearly as
large as all the balance of the States put together. [Cheers.] I believe
from the fact that the railroads own two million acres of land in Texas,
that they will give extraordinarily cheap rates, as they are anxious to
bring you there.

I believe, too, from the fact that there is not a comrade on this
floor who has not some relative living in Texas who wants him to
come and see him, that Dallas should be the choice.

No, sir, if you will come to Texas aud hold the convention, we
will give you a welcome as broad as the great State of Texas, and as
free ;as the winds that sweep over it, Therefore I favor the. sub-
stitute,

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Comrade Jos. F. Johnston, of Alabama — I am from Birming-
ham, and having been selected by Camp Hardee to advocate their
place. I ask the convention to bear with me while I tell you why the
report of the committee should be adopted.

Birmingham is a new city on the map of the old country. It
was almost a forest at the beginning of the war, but the old veterans
have built up these iron cities, and have made its iron-producing capa-
city far in excess of other iron-producing sections.

If you come to our midst we will gladly welcome you with a
welcome as big as the State of Texas, and we will give you, not only a
Confederate welcome, but a welcome as broad as the Confederacy
itself. [Cheers.] We do not promise or expect to entertain you on such
a magnificent scale as New Orleans has tendered you her hospitality,
that beautiful metropolis of the South, whose hospitality can be
equalled nowhere on this continent, but we will give you a genuine
welcome, and see that you are provided with an abundauce of the good
things of life, — we will give you a place to lay your head, plenty to
eat and plenty to drink.

The choice of Birmingham has been made by the committee
and by its selection all Alabama has been made happy, and we ask
you for God's sake to let this report be adopted.

A delegate from Texas — Mr. Chairman and Comrades, now when
I look at this State of Texas, which within the last few weeks has
sent in and organized seventy-five camps out of one hundred and
seventy- two, I do think that Texas is entitled to a large voice in this
matter of selecting a place for the next meeting.

It is not because I love Birmingham the less, but I think Texas
ought to have it, if for no other reason than because she has sent such
a large representation in camps. Texas can boast of more old soldiers
than all the country from Virginia to Louisiana, and there are more
that came from those States than soldiers that originally came from
Texas, liviDg as the survivors of the "Lost Cause" within her borders.
I do not think it improper to change the place of meeting, and I think
it is but justice that Dallas should have it, and Louisiana wants to send
it there.

A delegate here rose and said : It will be right to go near the
centre, and 1 think the committee is right to select as the next meet-
ing place either Birmingham or some central place so that all the
South might attend. I ask of Texas that she will not insist on a
change, but leave it to the committee that whatever it may say shall
stand.

I want to say to you Kentucky has the kindest feelings towards
Texas. I love Texas, I love Texas, but I hope Texas will rise superior
to the question and prove the true soldier by abiding by what the
committee has done.

Private J. M. Long, of Paris, Texas, arose in the convention
and said: "Worthy Commander, I wish to give some additional rea-
sons why the convention should select Dallas, Texas, as our next place

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for holding the next reunion of the United Confederate Veterans.
First. Because Gen. Cabell has devoted more time and energy and
organized more camps in the Trans-Mississippi Department than any
of our other worthy commanders. Second. Because Dallas, Texas,
will give the old veterans a more hearty and hospitable welcome than
any other city that has been placed in nomination for such honor.
Third. Because the last remains of Albert Sidney Johnston, who led
the brave sons of the South thirty years ago on Shiloh's bloody hill,
on to victory and down to death, now rests and sleeps beneath the
sunny skies of Texas; and now I want to appeal to the gallant Ken-
tuckian, who has rehearsed the memories of the Alamo and San Ja-
cinto, I want to tell him that I loved Kentucky more than he because
my "blue-eyed Mary" came from Kentucky to Texas, and "she loved
me for the dangers" I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity
them," and the Lone Star State is now our home, hence I appeal to
all the brave Kentuckians to vote for Texas and come to Dallas and
meet the brave little Kentucky woman at Dallas, Texas. I appeal to the
brave soldiers of Tennessee to vote for Texas, as I baptized the soil of
Tennessee with my young heart's blood at Shiloh on that bright Sun-
day morning; and now I appeal to the brave Mississippi soldiers to
vote for Texas, because my right limb was buried and now sleeps be-
neath the soil of Mississippi at Corinth, the spot I know not where.
I also appeal to the brave soldiers of North Carolina to vote for Texas
because my old father was born and raised in the ''Tar Heel State,'' and
is now seventy-eight years of age and is too old to go to Birmingham,
but is young enough to meet and greet the old United Confederate
Veterans at Dallas, Texas, in our next reunion; and I want to appeal
to the brave sons of Georgia to vote for Texas, because many of her
brave sons and daughters now live in the "Lone Star State;" and
especially do I remember one Capt. G. S. Baldwin, of Paris, Texas,
an intimate friend of our worthy commander, and well do I remember
his dying request to Gen. Gordon, which I bore in person, just before
Albert Sidney Johnston Camp laid him away to rest beneath the
sunny skies of Texas, and his last words were, "Tell Gen. Gordon I
will meet him in the grand reunion above; I had intended to meet
him at New Orleans, but God knows best." And now, fellow com-
rades, I make a final appeal to the brave sons of Virginia, Aikansas,
Louisiana and the Indian Territory and Alabama to vote for Texas,
because many of your brave sons and daughters are how living in the
Lone Star State, and as adopted sons and daughters of Texas will
give you a royal and hearty welcome should you select Dallas as the
next place for our reunion.

"And now, in conclusion, fellow comrades, Texas invites all
brave soldiers who wore the blue and the gray and met each other
upon a hundred battle-fields, to use their influence to give us a grand
reunion oi the, United Confederate Veterans away down South in
Dixie, in the Lone Star State, among the brave soldiers who have
emigrated to this la^d of liberty rocked in, tjie cradle, of revolution.

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The history of Texas is full of heroic deeds, from the sacrificing band
of the Alauio, who gave to their State the example of how men should
dire and die to protect the helplpss, in the defense of Sabine Pass,
which has no parallel in the annals of ancient or modern warfare.
Texas, the young giant repuhlie,, boldly striding onward in the con-
quest of peace, Dallas extends to such men a more than hear'y wel-
come, for it is good for us and them to be there on such an occasion.
It is a green spot in a city's as well as a man's life. To all, the high
and low, old and young, humble private and famous leaders, Ditllas
extends a cordial welcome. Good bye; God bless you all till we meet
again away down South in Dixie."

Gen. Jackson. "Gentlnner, — As chairman of the committee to
select a place for our next meeting, I should like to pay a few words.
Of course, it is disagreeable for me to oppose the State of Texas.
I appreciate as highly as any one the enthusiasm of Texas, the heart-
felt enthusiasm and desire on the part of Texas to have the conven-
tion there. All this I would take into consideration on a question
of personal preference, but it is not such. The committee thought
for a continuance of the interest and enthusiasm in this cause they
ought to select a central location, so that they could enlist the co-
operation of the entire Southern States, and swell the next conven-
tion to its greatest proportions, and now after the action of the com-
mittee, after Texas has been so ably advocated by Judge Burke and
others, and I never heard a State more ably advocated, and by Gen.
Veal, also, I submit that after the committee has unanimously reported
in favor of Birmingham it is a question (without reference to places)
will you stand by the action of your committee, or will you not ?"

The chair — The motion is before the House to strike out
Birmingham and insert Dallas.

Comrade Smith, of Alabama — "As a representative of W. J.
Hardee Camp, of Birmingham Ala., I extend a cordial invitation to
all to come within her borders, and I ask Texas to do as Texas has
always done — give her smaller brothers a chance at the good things
of this life. With sixty thousand or more brave men settled within
her borders, we want you to come up to Birmingham, and we will
show you how hieh up man can get when they have got no more room
to spread out below; we will show you that on Alabama's mountain
tops we can entertain all the world, and we wi'l show you, also, how
true we have been to the memory of the Confederacy. We ask these
noble Texans to give to the younger and smaller one a chance.
Alabama wants you in her midst; wants all Texas to be there; and if
they will come we will give them a brotherly welcome, as we are anx-
ious to have them, and we hope the Texas boys will be as generous
now as they were during the war. We want Texa<= to do now just
exactly what Texas would like to have done to it, and treat us just as
handsomely as Texas would like to be treated, by letting the con-
vention come to us while we are in good trim, and we "will see to it

that yon Jme the next chance alter ns."

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Gen. Watts, of Dallas, Texas — "I would call your attention,
Mr. Chairman, to the fact that we entertain at Dallas, two weeks in
every year, from 15,000 to 20,000 people from every part of the State.
We have the capability of entertaining at Dallas, and she will be
able to accommodate more than will be able to get there at the the next
Reunion. With our railroad systems, if we place the Reunion in
Texas, they will give us the very lowest fare. Dallas should have
it. Two reunions have been held right on her borders, one at Chat-
tanooga and another at Jackson, now we want it over on the other
side of the river. After that send it back to Virginia — to Richmond —
for that is where we want to go, but Dallas should have it this time.'

The chair — The convention must come to a decision; we are
losing too much time.

Gen. Watts continued:

"3fr. President, the chairman of the committee gives as the
reason of the selection of Birmingham that it was thought advisable
to hold the convention at a central place; I would like to say that in
going from Western Texas to Dallas, it is as far as a man would
have to travel in coming from Florida to Dallas, and in coming from
the South of Texas to Dallas it would take nearly as long as from
Chicago.

"We have organized and brought with us seventy-five camps to
this Reunion, and we will have two hundred at the next one."

The chair — The motion is still before the House to strike out
Birmingham and substitute Dallas, the vote to be taken first viva
voce, and afterwards if necessary by camps.

Comrade Smith, of Alabama — "That is if the question is called
for."

The chair — Yes, the vote first to be taken by the ayes and noes,
and then by camps if necessary.

The chair — Are you ready for the question?

("Question, question.")

Division called for to vote by camps, which resulted as follows
(Col. Jno. P. Hickman, adjutant genenal Tennessee Division, was
selected by Adjutant General Moorman to call the roll of camps):

CAMPS. BIRMINGHAM. DALLAS.

Kentucky 27

Florida 59

Division of Northwest (Chicago) 3

Mississippi — Camp No. 20 . . 6

" 22 3

" 25 5

" 27 2

" 32 4

" 49 4

" 52 2

" 120 ,.... 3

of the United Confederate Veterans.

CAW P.

Mississippi — Camp No. 19

152

131

Indian Territory — Camp No. 68.

" 107.

Louisiana — Camp No.

14.

15.

17.

18.

38.

40.

41.

62.

78.
110.
152.

BIRMINGHAM.

o
o

18
3
3
7
7
7

12
3
5
3
4
3
4
3
2
3
2
3

90
32

DALLAS.

160

My camp paid

Texas

Tennessee

Alabama

"Mr. Chairman, has Georgia been called yet'
up this morning."

Col. Hickman — "Georgia has not been called yet, but I am call-
ing the camps from the list handed in by the Committee on Creden-
tials last night and will continue with their supplementary list when
I shall have finished with this one."

"Hasn't Texas additional votes outside of the 160 already
called ?"

The chair — The list being called now is the one submitted by
the Committee on Credentials last night and does not include camps
that paid up this morning.

CAMPS.

BIRMINGHAM.

Louisiana — Camp No. 60 .
Texas — Camp No. 29 . . .
30 ... .

DALLAS.

14
3

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CAMPS. BIRMINGHAM. DALLAS.

Texas— Camp No. 66 12

88 3

" 106 3

« 111 9

115 8

116 12

117 2

118 2

119 5

" 121 8

125 4

127 3

128 2

129 9

141 11

158 6

160 3

349 319

Arkansas — Camp No. 146 3

A delegate from Arkansas, our camp has only one representa-
tive here, and cast her 3 votes for Birmingham, not Dallas.

Florida— Camp No. 161 2

North Carolina " 162 3

Dist. of Columbia " 171 Not present to vote.

Texas " 163 4

" 164 2

" 165 2

« " 166 10

Mississippi " 167 2

Texas " 169 2

" 170 2

Dist, of Columbia" 171 Kecalled; still not pre-
sent to vote.

Texas " 172.... 3

Georgia " 34 Not present.

" 159 26

Louisiana " 41 3

385 317

The Chair — According to votes cast, the chair announces that
Birmingham has it, having received 385 votes and Dallas 347.

Gen. Waul — Permit me and permit the State of Texas to
thank, with exceeding great thanks, all camps outside of our terri-
tory who cast their vote in favor of Dallas. Another year and we
will com§ to your midst to ttie'et on. $§ east side of the Mississippi

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as many, and more even than has met from the West at this reunion,
and because of our number, we shall make you do as we want,
rather than as you want.

Again, thanking those who cast their votes in favor of Dallas, I
move that tbe choice of Birmingham be made unanimous. [Carried
amidst loud applause.]

THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS

reported ,.as follows: — favorably on resolution of Comrade W. H.
Brooker of Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, San Antonio, Texas.

RESOLUTION I

To expedite the future organizations of the annual meetings
of the Veterans' Association;

Be %t Resolved, That the Adjutant General of this Association
send out blank muster rolls to the various subordinate camps at
least sixty days before the annual meetings of this Association, to-
gether with blank certificates for delegates from the several sub-
ordinate camps to this Association, with instructions to the Adjutants
of the various camps to send in such muster roll, or roster, of his
camp, with the per capita dues of same, and the names of the dele-
gates appointed by each camp, to the annual meetings of this Asso-
ciation.

Resolved, 2d, Tbat when the annual meeting of this Associa-
tion is called to order, the roll of camps shall be called by States,
and such accredited delegates answering to the roll call of their re-
spective camps, shall be the duly recognized delegates in this body,
and the convention proceed to business on the basis of such organ-
ization.

Resolved, 3d, That this procedure shall not interfere with the
regular form of receiving the delegates of new camps, who shall be
admitted in due form.

The resolution was adopted.

[Note by Adjutant General Moorman — All the requirements
named in this resolution, blanks sent out, etc . , had been complied
with, and repeated requests made for compliance for months before
the reunion by letters, circulars, and General Orders Nos. 32, 34, 39
and 40. The dilatoriness of the camps occasioned the trouble.]

By the Committee on Resolutions, following resolution by
Comrade R. B. Burroughs, Surgeon General of Florida:

Whereas, It may have been so ordained that to not a few of
us the privilege has been extended for the last time of visiting New
Orleans as a representation of the Confederate Union;

Be it Resolved, That we to-morrow, as many of us as can, under
the leadership of our Commanding General, proceed to the grave of
Jefferson Davis, that we may there at that hallowed spot, with bowed and
uncovered heads and reverent mein, pay tribute to his character, his

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services and his worth, that we may thereby show to the peoples of
the world that though we hold honest and true allegiance to the
government of the United States, that the principle of State sover-
eignty and self-government for which he fought and the devoted at-
tachment to his memory will ever live in the hearts of his followers.

Which was reported adversely by the committee, inasmuch as
the resolution, meritorious as it is, was presented at such a late peri-
od of the convention that it was impossible, on account of the pub-
lished programme, to deviate from it, without the greatest injustice to
all, therefore it was impossible to comply with the sacred request.

By General J. A. Chalaron :

Resolved, That an Historical Committee be appointed by the
General elect, immediately or as soon as possible after the adjourn-
ment of this convention, which committee shall be composed of one
representative from each of the thirteen Confederate States, and
one to represent the camps outside of these States, of which commit-
tee one of the Lieutenant Generals shall be appointed chairman.

This committee shall have charge of all matters pertaining to
the collection and preservation of historical data, facts and material.
It shall seek how best to stimulate the writing of a history or histo-
ries of the Confederate struggle and States; it shall apply itself to
the elucidation and vindication of obscure and controverted points
in the annals of our great struggle, that a proper presentation, re-
cording and perpetuation of the glorious deeds, heroism and virtues
of the Confederate soldiers, statesmen and people, may be taught to
our children and handed down to posterity. This committee shall
have their report ready, printed and laid before each camp of the
United Confederate Veterans at least three months before the meet-
ing of the next annual convention, in order that each camp may then
be prepared to discuss and act upon it.

Resolution by comrade W. H. Brooker, of San Antonio, Texas :

Wheeeas, Time in its flight is fast consuming the participants
in the great irrepressible conflict, and its corroding elements hang
like a pall over the existence of our arms, the chivalry of our de-
fenders; the heroic deeds of our brave; and the meritorious forti-
tude of the women of the South; and,

Whereas, No concerted action has been taken to write our
history, and place our time, the age in which we live — and fought,
save by those who are antagonistic to us and our posterity, who are
always prone to moderate our valor, and the victories we won;
therefore, be it

Resolved by the United Confederate Veterans' Association,
that the General Commanding appoint a Committee on Statistics and
History— one from the Army of Northern Virginia, one from the
Army of Tennessee, one from the Trans-Mississippi Department, one
each from the navy, artillery and cavalry service; whose duty it
shall be to report to the next annual meeting of this association

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such compilation of statistics and history that they can gather, and
to find out as near as practicable what further procedure will be
necessary to complete the compilation and history and the probable
cost of the same per volume of five hundred pages, the publication
to be done by some Southern publishing company, State or associa-
tion.

Resolved, 2d, That every commander of any and all depart-
ments, and commands of whatever kind in the service ot the Con-
federate government; all privates, and individuals be requested to
write and compile, in condensed form, every act worthy of note oc-
curring in the great historic-dramatic conflict of a nation's woes,
and transmit them to any member of said committee for supervision
and compilation.

Substitute offered in place of the above resolutions by General
J. A. Chalaron, of Louisiana, on the subject of the true history of the
civil war, and by comrade W. H. Brooker, of San Antonio, Texas,
as follows:

By Committee on Resolutions —

Resolved, That the subject of a true and reliable history of the
late civil war be referred to a permanent committee of seven comrades,
skilled and experienced in such matters, to be appointed by the Com-
manding General and that the said committee formulate a plan of
securing the objects intended.

Resolved, 2d, That said committee select and designate such
proper and truthful history of the United States, to be used in both
public and private schools of the South, and that said committee shall,
as soon as possible, put the seal of their condemnation upon such as
are not truthful histories of the United States.

Which substitute was accepted and adopted.

By comrade M. J. Sherrill, of North Carolina:
Besolution recommending the purchase of Jefferson Davis'
History of the Confederate States by all friends of the Lost Cause, not
only because it is the best history, but because it should be in every
Southern home. Adopted.

By comrade G. H. Cole, of Sanders' Camp, Eutaw, Ala. :
Resolution providing "that certificates of membership be pre-
pared and given to members so that they may be handed down to
their children and treasured as mementoes when the veterans are all
gone. Adopted.

By Gen. Ben. T. Du Val, of Arkansas:

Resolved, That the Louisiana Historical Association, having a fire-
proof building, built expressly for the purpose of storing away relics,
papers, etc., relating to the civil war, be designated as a safe reposito-
ry of all historical data, archives, etc., that may be collected by the
various camps of the United Confederate Veterans.

Resolved further, That Gen. W. Miller Owen, now Secretary,
Custodian and Treasurer of the Louisiana Historical Association, be

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appointed custodian of such documents and papers, and be appointed
the Historian of the United Confederate Veterans. AdojDted.

By comrade W. D. Cbipley, of Florida:

Resolution providing for a badge or button for the sons of vet-
erans, was referred to the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws.

Resolution by Gen. J. F. Shipp, of N. B. Forrest Camp, Chat-
tanooga, Tenn. :

Whereas, One of the most sacred duties of the United Confed-
erate Veterans is to erect a grand memorial building to the memory
of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, late President of the Southern Confeder-
acy, to the honor of our fallen heroes; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the General Commanding be authorized to ap-
point a Central Memorial Committee, whose duty shall be to take charge
ot the patriotic and noble work of raising the necessary money and
perfecting the plan for said memorial building, not to cost less than
tive hundred thousand dollars, and that the committee be directed to
enter upon the work at once and report progress to our next annual
convention

The Committee on Resolutions recommended, as a substitute,
the following by comrade A. T. Watts, of Dallas, Texas:

Resolved, That a permanent committee, consisting of one com-
rade from each of the States, Indian Territory, District of Columbia,
and the Division of the Northwest, constituting the late Confederate
States, be appointed to solicit and secure funds with which to erect a
suitable monument to the memory of our late Ex-President Jefferson
Davis, to be erected at such place as may be determined at the next
annual convention of this association.

Resolved, That the Commanding General is authorized and di-
rected to appoint a committee of fifteen, who shall consider and report
to the next annualj meeting a plan to erect a suitable memorial to
the late President Davis and our fallen heroes.

Gens. Cabell and Veal — Does that provide for one from each
State?

The Chair — One from each State represented in this conven-
tion.

The Chair — Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, of Richmond, Va., would
like to address the convention on this subject.

Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, of R. E. Lee Camp, and Mayor of
Richmond, Va. — "Mr. President and Comrades — There is not a people
sincerer to the memory of President Davis than the people of Vir-
ginia. He was to others a great soldier, profound statesman and a
grand leader of men, but he was more to us; he was our honored fel-
low-citizen and cherished friend, and we felt and feel to-day that
there was no American more steadfast or more loyal to the principles
of free government than Jefferson Davis [cheers].

"I say that when this country compiles a list of those men who
were loyal to those principles of free government that there will be

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no name more, more deserving of being placed upon it than the name of
Jefferson Davis, and so we felt when we came to consider how to per-
petuate the memory of such a man and recognized that it would be a
proud privilege of erecting a monument to him in the capital city of
the Confederacy. J

"The disposition of Presideut Davis' remains was left with Mrs
Davis. We deferred to her wishes, and it was not until she had set-
tled the question of a final resting place for the remains that we
inaugurated an active movement for the erection of a monument to
his memory. It should be something more than a local monument
more than a mere tribute from the people of Richmond, and we hope
that it will be erected by all the lovers of the Confederacy throughout
all the South, so it may be in every sense the Confederate monument.
"We have organized with that end in view, and we want the
endorsement and hearty co-operation of the United Confederte Vete-
rans, and we should like to present some reasons why we should have
the endorsement of this grand reunion of Confederate camps.

"We believe that as time passes there will be found more and
more difficulties in the way of completing this purpose. Whatever
measure is decided upon let it be carried into effect at once This
movement should have been started immediately after his death and
the time passing only increases the difficulties in our way, and every
year it will become more and more diffiult to secure the money for
such a monument as Mr. Davis deserves.

''The last resting place of Mr. Davis was settled and finally
disposed of when Mrs. Davis made her decision, which should meet
hearty approval from all the old soldiers of the South, and they
should join in pushing forward this great work, for we are honoring
ourselves by first erecting a- monument to the President of the
Confederacy.

"What others may do, wherever you may erect your monu-
ments, Richmond and Virginia will be found there, ready to lend a
hand, but we should first honor the memory of Mr. Davis, who in
our opinion, was one of the greatest statesmen of his generation
[cheers].

"I appreciate, Mr. President, that you cannot give me more
time to speak on this important subject, but I thank you for the
recognition and courtesy extended us by every member in this organ-
ization from the general commanding down to the private, and every-
where we have met with the most earnest consideration and kindest
cordiality." [Cheers.]

Gen. Cabell— "I move to strike out the number three in the
resolution and substitute one from each State and one from the In-
dian Territory, District of Columbia and Division of the Northwest."
(Accepted.)

Resolution by Gen. Geo. W. Gordon, of Tennessee:
Resolved, 1st, That it is the sense of this convention that the
late Confederate States each grant a pension to Mrs. V. Jefferson

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Davis, the widow of the late Jefferson Davis, President of said Con-
federate States, and we earnestly recommend to the legislatures of
the following States to vote her an annual pension of five hundred
dollars ($500) each during the remaining years of her life, viz:

Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Car-
olina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Ar-
kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, and for the five civilized
tribes of the Indian Territory one hundred dollars ($100) each.

Resolved, 2d, That the governors of each of the States named,
and the governors of each of the five civilized tribes of the Indian
Territory, be requested to lay this matter before their respective
legislatures at their next meeting in a special message.

Reported favorably by Committee on Resolutions and unani-
mously adopted.

Additional resolution by Gen. Geo. W. Gordon, Tennessee:

Resolved, That the chairman of this convention designate one
person from each of the States and Territories mentioned in the reso-
lutions heretofore passed, recommending that Mrs. V. Jefferson
Davis be pensioned by said States, to constitute a committee, whose
duty it shall be to memorialize the governors and legislatures of the
same, and urge that each grant her a pension in accordance with the
provisions and purpose of said resolution.

Reported favorably by Committee on Resolutions and unani-
mously adopted.

Following resolution was offered by Gen. J. F. Shipp, of N. B.
Forrest Camp No. 4, Chattanooga:

Whereas, One of the objects of the United Confederate Vete-
rans is to promote a fraternal feeling among the people of our com-
mon country, and whereas the coming National Columbian Exposi-
tion, to be held in the city of Chicago during the next year will be
conducive to that end;

Be it Resolved, That the general commanding be requested to
inquire into the practicability of this organization visiting the said
Exposition in a body during the holding of the same, and that he be
given full power in the premises.

Dr. J. Wm. Jones, of Georgia — "Mr. President^ I am opposed
to the United Confederate Veterans visiting the World's Fair in a
body. I do not believe in Confederate veterans visiting any place
where they cannot carry the battle flag of the Confederacy unfurled
to the breeze and at the head of their columns. The gentleman who
framed the resolution doubtless meant well, but I am opposed to it,
and I think every true ex-Confederate ought to be the same."

The chair — The resolution simply leaves it to the general com-
manding, and if he thinks well of it he is to see into the practica-
bility of visiting the World's Fair in a body. It is left to nim
entirely.

Dr. J. Wm. Jones — "No one holds the general commanding the
United Confederate Veterans in greater regard than I do, and in the

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brave old days I was willing to follow him in all that he said, but
after Gen. Palmer, of the Grand Army of the Republic, issned his
celebrated orders, I am not willing to leave this question of visiting
Chicago even to our commander [cheers]. I say that such an action
on our part will be accepted by him as an intimation that we should
do so, and, therefore, I oppose the resolution and move that we lay it
on the table."

The chair — The motion before the House is to lay the resolu-
tion regarding the United Confederate Veterans visiting the World's
Fair in a body on the table. "What is your pleasure ? (Laid on the
table.)

Resolution by Gen. Underwood regarding certain changes in
the constitution, etc., was handed him to read, as the chairman was
unable to decipher it. Gen. Underwood laughingly read it, remark-
ing; "If I am able to read it myself it is only because I know the sub-
ject, otherwise I would not be able to read it myself," it is as
follows:

Resolved, That article 1 of the revised Constitution be amend-
ed by adding the following:

The United Confederate Veterans shall be considered a Fed-
eration of various Ex-Confederate Associations, without interfering
in any manner whatsoever with the local organization, or privileges
thereunto belonging, of any of the Camps and Associations compris-
ing such general Federation.

That for the better organization of the United Confederate
Veterans the territory of the United States shall be divided into
Departments as follows:

I. The States and portions thereof east of the Mississippi
River and south of the connected southernly boundaries of Ken-
tucky, West Virginia and Maryland shall comprise the First Depart-
ment.

II. The States and portions thereof west of the Mississippi
River shall comprise the Second Department.

III. The States and portions thereof east of the Mississippi
River and north of the connected northwardly boundaries of Ten-
nessee and Virginia shall comprise the Third Department.

IV. That each State or major portion thereof, wherein there
are five or more Camps of the U. C. V, shall be designated a Divis-
ion District and may be subdivided into two or more Brigade Dis-
tricts.

V. The Commander of a Department shall determine the
necessity for forming Division and Brigade Districts; and, shall
otherwise organize the Camps under his command as he shall deem
to be most expedient.

Resolved., That the first paragraph of article 2 of the revised
Constitution be so amended as to read : The officers of the general
headquarters shall be as follows: A General, Commander-in-Chief;

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a General, second in Command; a Lieutenant-General to command
each military Department; such honorary Lieutenant-Generals as the
Federation shall authorize; a Lieuteaant-General who shall be Chief
of Staff and act as Adjutant-General, and the following Chiefs of
Staff Corps, to rank as Major Generals: An Inspector- General, a
Quartermaster-General, a Commissary-General, a Judge-Advocate-
General, a Surgeon-General, a Chaplain-General; and an Assistant
to each Chief of Staff Corps with rank of Brigadier-General; other
Staff Corps officers with rank of Colonel; such Aids-de-Camp as may
be deemed necessary, with rank of Colonel; and a Banneret, with
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The General, Commander in-Chief ;
General, second in Command and Lieutenant-Generals, Commanders
of Departments, shall be elected by the members of the Federation
in session assembled. The General, Commander-in-Chief, shall ap-
point the Chief of Staff and other officers comprising the general
staff of the Federation.

The Quartermaster-General shall be Treasurer at general
Headquarters and the Commmander-in-Chief shall select from among
his Aids-de-Camp. a military secretary, who, for the period of occu-
pancy, shall rank as Brigadier- General. The General, second in
Command, shall appoint a personal staff consisting of a Chief with
rank of Brigadier-General and as many Aids-de-Camp with rank
of Colonel as he shall desire, The General, Commander in Chief,
shall be president and the General, second in Command, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Federation. The Chiefs of Staff Corps will recommend
Comrades to the Commander in Chief, for appointment as their
Assistauts, with rank of Brigadier-Generals, respectively. The Chief
of Staff shall in the name of the General, Commander-in-Chief,
commission all officers; and for a commission, a fee of one dollar
shall be charged, collected and covered into the Headquarters
Treasury and be applied in payment of general expenses.

Which resolutions were referred to the Committee, on Besolu-
tions, and by it refered to Committee on Constitution and By-Laws
when appointed without indorsement. Which was adopted — also.
The following resolutions, offered by General Jno. C. Underwood,
were refered to the Committee on Besolutions by it appproved, and
were recommended to the attention of the Committee on Constitu-
tion and By-Laws, when adopted.

Resolved, That the second paragraph of article 2 be amended
by adding the following:

The Major-Generals of Divisions may, at their discretion,
divide their Division Districts and form two or more Brigades each
of their Commands, reporting the same and recommending suitable
comrades for commanders thereof, to the Commander-in-Chief for
approval and appointment, as Brigadier-Generals.

Resolved, That the last paragraph of article 2 be amended by
adding the following:

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The relative grade of the officers of a Camp will be as follows:
The Commai'der shall rank as Major, the Lieutenant-Commanders,
Adjutant and Surgeon shall rank as Captains and the other commis-
sioned officers of the Camp shall rank as Lieutenants.

Resolved, That article 6 of the revised Constitution shall be
amended as follows:

The relative grade and rank of officers comprising the various
staffs of Departments, Divisions and Brigades shall be.

FOB A DEPARTMENT.

A Chief of Staff, with rank of Brigadier-General; an Adjutant-
General, an Inspector-General, a Quartermaster General a Commis-
sary-General, a Judge-Advocate-General, a Surgeon-General and
a Chaplain-General with rank each of Colonel; and an Assistant to
each, when deemed necessary or expedient, and as many Aids-de-
Camp as the General may desire, all with rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel; and, a Banneret with rank of Major.

FOR A DIVISION.

A Chief of Staff, with rank of Colonel, an Assistant Adjutant-
General, an Inspector-Qeneral, a Quartermaster-General, a Commis-
sary-General, a Judge-Advocate-General, a Surgeon-General and a
Chaplain-General, with rank each of Lieutenant-Colonel; an Assis-
tant to each, when deemed necessary or expedient, and as many
Aids de Camp as the General may desire, all with rank of Major; and,
a Banneret with rank of Captain.

FOR A BRIGADE,

A Chief of Staff, with rank of Lientenant-Colonel, an Adjutant-
General, an Inspector-General, a Commissary-General, a Judge-
Advocate-General, a Surgeon-General and a Brigade Chaplain, with
rank each of Major; an Assistant to each, when deemed necessary or
expedient, and as many Aids- de-Camp as the General may desire,
all with rank of Captain : and a Banneret with rank of Lieutenant.

Following resolution offered by Gen. J. A Chalaron:
Resolved, That a committee on constitution be appointed by
the general-elect immediately, or as soon as possible after the ad-
journment of this convention, which committee shall be composed of
one representative from each of the thirteen Confederate States, and
one to represent the camps outside of the fifteen States, of which
committee the general shall be chairman. To this committee shall be
referred all suggestions, resolutions proposed, amendments and all
matters ger main to the constitution and the better organization and
perpetuation of the United Confederate Veteran Association.

This committee shall perfect a new constitution and by-laws,
and have their report and the draft of the new constitution ready,
printed and laid before each camp of the United Confederate Vete-
rans ftt least three months before the meeting of the next annual

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convention, in order that each camp may then be prepared to dis-
cuss and act upon it.

Passage recommended by Committee on Resolutions. Adopted.

Following resolution offered by Gen. Jno. Glynn, Jr., of Camp
No. 2, Army of Tennessee, New Orleans, La. :

Resolved, That Article 2 of the constitution be amended by
inserting after the words "that of the General" the following words:
"and brigadier generals may be appointed wherever the necessity
therefor may arise."

Resolved, That the amendment to Article 5 of the constitu-
tion adopted June 2d, 1892, be repealed.

Resolved, That Article 5 of the constitution be amended by
adding after the words "due by such camp" the words "and this per
capita amount shall be apportioned as follows, to wit: 7-10 to gen-
eral headquarters, 1-10 to department headquarters, and 2-lo to
division headquarters."

Resolved, That Article 3 of the constitution be amended by
adding after the words "members of the convention" the words:
"and provided further that no member shall be entitled to repre-
sention in more than one camp; if he be a member of two or more
camps he to elect in which camp he is to be represented."

Objected to by General J. Henry Behan, and referred to
committee on constitution and by-laws when appointed.

Following resolution offered by Gen. W. H. Jackson, of
Nashville, Tenn. :

Since the preservation of the history of the Confederate States
is so closely connected with our honor and self-respect as a people,
for by the study of such a history can the youth of our Southland
obtain a clear and adequate comprehension of that great sectional
conflict through which we have passed — the greatest event of this
century — which is to occupy so prominent a page upon the history
of this country; therefore be it

Resolved, That in order to obtain such a history our com-
manding general, in conjunction with the historical committee of
this Association, be hereby authorized and empowered to employ an
historian at an annual salary of two thousand dollars ($2000), and
the States composing this Association be requested to appoint an
assistant historian for their respective States at their first annual
meeting, to the end that the historian, together with the assistant
historian, who shall be compensated by the States, shall constitute
an historical board of this Association for the purpose of collecting
and collating historical data to be used in preparing an accurate
history at such time as this Association may direct.

Which was reported adversely by the Committee on Resolu-.
tion. There are no funds on hand for the purpose indicated.

By Comrade Claiborne of Texas:

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Whereas, There are present many soldiers of the late Confed-
eracy who have never grasped the hands of Generals James Long-
street, John B. Gordon, Stephen D. Lee, E. Kirby Smith, G. T.
Beauregard, Gen. T. N. Waul and others now present;

Be it Resolved, That these gentlemen grant an audience so
that the old boys may shake their hands and wish them long life
and success.

Amendment by T. P. Waller, of Alabama: Add the names of
Mrs. V. Jefferson and Miss Winnie Davis.

Reported adversely by Committee on Resolutions as a recep-
tion has already been arranged.

By Baton Rouge Camp No. 17:

Resolved, That in order to establish a particular date for the
general observance of the day upon which proper respect shall be
paid to our Confederate Dead, this convention select same, to be
known as Memorial Day for the entire South.

Reported adversely by Committee on Resolutions, as some
States had already adopted different days as legal holidays.

Following resolution reported adversely by Committee on
Resolutions:

Be it Resolved, That the local camps of this Association are
hereby authorized to empower any lady to wear the button badge
of this Association, provided she is either the wife, widow or daugh-
ter of a member of a camp in good standing, or tb,e mother, widow or
daughter of a deceased soldier of the Confederacy.

Gen. Stephen D. Lee, acting president, announced that the
business of the convention having been completed, the next in order
was the election of officers.

Gen. Wright Schaumberg — On the part of the Louisiana Divi-
sion I ask the privilege of nominating one who since our great loss of
President Davis occupies the most conspicous place in our love and
esteem, therefore, I move the re-election of John B. Gordon, of
Georgia, as general commanding.

Major Geu. John C. Underwood — Mr. President: I rise for the
purpose of painting a word picture by citing a passage of history,
possibly known to others than myself who are present. During one
of the memorable battles of the late civil war, enriched with charges,
counter-charges and deeds of valor culminating in victory, there was
a thin single line of the "grey" being pressed back by overpowering
numbers of the enemy, yet the onslaught of the "blue" masses was
for a time heroically withstood; and, not until it was absolutely necessa-
ry to retreat, because of the depleted battalions and no reinforcements,
was the command formed in two lines for the purpose of withdrawing
from the field. No sooner had the retrogade movement begun, than
the enemy discovering themaneuvre pressed forward its columns, made
ready for the charge, and hurled the masses with a forest of bayon-
ets against the centre of the retreating division. The Confederate
line wavered, but being rapidly supported in the centre from its

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flanks, clospd gaps from gun shots, withstood and repulsed the
charge. Rejoining the sub-divisions it again commenced the
ordeilv retreat, first one sub-division and then t^e other passing
through the intervals made for it and rejoiuing in the rear of the pro-
tecting sub-division presenting a battle front.

Such tactics prevailed until the two retreating lines neared the
crest of a small hill, when the retreating sub-division could not be
halted, but without restraint passed over the top of the hill and
sought the protecting cover of mother earth. The sub-division formed
in line of battle, discovering that it was no longer supported and
plainly seeing the preparations for an overwhelmning charge by the
enemy with almost certain capture, turned and in some disorder also
sought cover beyond the crest of the eminence. The efforts of the officers
to allay excitement and stop the too hasty and unguarded retreat were
fruitless; and, disorder, broken lines and capture seemed inevitable.
When the commanding officer came to the front and through his per-
sonal presence and influence endeavored to stay the disorderly retreat
and prevent a possible rout. The men looked at their General, and
though no cowards, as many hard fought battles could attest, still
through temporary panic hastened to the rear; when, losing patience,
the commander ceased his futile attempt to re-establish tbe lines of
battle and turning faced the advancing host, sword in hand, head erect
and bare, with the eye of an eagle and an indescribable determina-
tion in his facial expression, seemed to be willing to meet and defy
the enemy with his single arm rather than suffer the disgrace of igno-
minious defeat. A tall, thin color-sergeant, reaching the hill top,
looked over his shoulder as he ran and saw tbe advancing lines of the
enemy; and comprehending the predicament in which his General was
placed, he gave the well known battle cry of the South, turned and
running to the front placed the battle cross standard beside the com-
mander; the movement and example was electrical and, before the
enemy could take advantage of the temporary panic, the line was
formed dressing to the centre upon a Mnjor-General and a battle flag;
and, with the aid of opportune reinforcements, the enemy was re-
pulsed. When a few of the nearest veterans turned to give homage
to such a commander, it was discovered that he had been wounded,
and, the trickle of blood across his cheek, falling upon and staining
the clothes, plainly marked its fountain source; and, the scar that re-
mains to this day constitutes a decoration, gloriously won on the field
of battle, which far surpasses the most ornate jewel that could possi-
bly be bestowed upon the military hero graced by the bullet mark.

There sits the man, Jno. B. Gordon, the hero of this thrilling
and historic scf ne, the "Marshal Ney" of the war", a civil ruler in the
Senate of the now united country, a combined soldier and statesman
whom we in honoring, honor ourselves.

Therefere, I second the nomination of General John B. Gordon
for re-election as Commander of the United Confederate Veterans^
and, trust that bis election may be unanimous,

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This speech was greeted with loud and prolonged applause,
and the name of Gordon, Gordon, Gordon, shouted by every delegate.

Di\ J. B. Cowan — On behalf of Tennessee, I also second the re-
election of our President, the "Gordon of Georgia."

Comrade Wbittington, of Alexandria — "Louisiana moves that
his re-election be made unanimous. To-day, as Southern soldiers, I
say in the name of Louisiana, of Texas, of the departments east and
west of the Mississippi, God grant that we may unanimously re-e'ect
our old commander of this association, Jno. B. Gordon. I ask that
with grateful and swelling hearts, that with a standing and a rising
vote we re-elect our present and distinguished officer, glorious Jno.
B. Gordon.

Comrade W. L. Delaney, of Kentucky, seconded the motion
that the election be made unanimous, and by a rising vote, and
amidst the wildest cheers and with the greatest enthsiastn the motion
was carried by acclamation.

General Gordon replied as follows: "My beloved comrades, I
will not attempt to imitate the example of the great Marshal of France,
who directed in his last will to his people, that his body should be
buried in Paris, and his heart upon the battle field with his dead
comrades; but I will say, that while I live my heart and my services
are yours [cheers], and when I am dead I trust that beneath the sunny
skies of our loved Southland, to be laid to rest by the hands of my
loving and consecrated brethren." [Loud and prolonged cheering.]

Gen. J. A. Chalaron, of Louisiana — I move that all the preseut
officers of this association be re-elected unanimously, and by a rising
vote. [Carried amidst cheers.]

Lieut. Gen. W. L. Cabell — I wish to thank you, my comrades,
for this mark of your estppm, and let me assure you my services and
heart are at your feet, and I will come to Birmingham next year, not
with seventy-five camps, but I am going to bring one hundred and
seventy-five camps. [Cheers.]

Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith — I thank you, my comrades, with
a heart swelling with pride, for the great honor you have conferred
upon me. As one of the first to enter the war in Virginia, and the
last to lay down my arms, I can say that none, be he private or officer,
have been more faithfully devoted to the South than I, and I promise
to be worthy of your regard by remaining as true in the future as I
have been in the past. [Cheers.]

Brig. Gpn. J. Henry Behan, of Veteran Confederate States
Cavalry Camp No. 9 of New Orleans, La. — Mr. President, there is one
department that has been neglected and I rise to speak on behalf of
that department. To make an after report, I allude to Commis-
sary General, "Wheeler's Department.

"We enlisted in the service of our corps the sympathies of the
women of New Orleans — the daughters, and mothers, and sisters and
wives of old veterans. Some opposed me when I suggested getting
the ladies' assistance, others eniorg you here to-day thought noy plan

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visionary, but these ladies for the last few days have been standing
up waiting upon you like servants, but they esteemed it a sacred duty
and privilege to minister to the noble men who have come here.

The Commissary Department that we have established in the
next room, has been entirely under the management of these ladies,
who know not what work is, but who have labored from early in the
morning until late at night with that devotion characteristic of the
women of the South. They are there to cheer you if you are depress-
ed in spirits, and to provide for you if you are faint, and to do every-
thing that Southern women would delight in doing for a Confederate
soldier. [Cheers.]

I think some recognition should be bestowed upon them for
their indefatigable efforts in contributing so largely to the successful
workings of this convention, and therefore move that a vote of thanks
be tendered them.

Gen. Underwood — I was about to do the same, and now beg to
offer this resolution:

"Whereas, the ladies of New Orleans, mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters of Confederate soldiers and citizen sympathizers, have
through their personal efforts entertained and dined daily the mem-
bers of this convention and attendant associates; therefore, be it

"Resolved, That the thanks of this convention are hereby ten-
dered to the ladies of the Crescent City for their hospitality, thorough
home-like courtesies and open-hearted liberality in their daily admin-
istrations toward the inner man, as equalled only by their lovely char-
acteristics, as beautiful and true women.

"Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be adopted by a rising
vote."

Adopted.

It was carried by a rising vote, the delegates waving their hats
and shouting, "Hurrah for the ladies of New Orleans."

Gen. Gordon stated it was not necessary to call the question.

When quiet was finally restored, an old veteran in the rear of
the hall arose and said: "We don't want Gen. Behan to tbiok we were
about to forget the ladies. Remembering their hospitality and kind-
ness to us in this way, is a sweet morsel that we saved for the last of
the feast."

Appointment of date for holding of next reunion at Birming-
ham, was next in order.

Gen. Chalaron — I move that the Commanding General be au-
thorized to fix the date of our annual convention some time in June
or July.

Substitute was offered to fix the date a year hence.

A delegate from Texas objected to this as the farmers could
not leave at that time.

Gen. Underwood then offered the following: That this matter
be left to the General Commanding and to the Department Con}-
manders, Gens. Smith and Cabell.

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Gen. Veal — I have a substitute to offer, it is that we fix the
second Wednesday in July as the date for our reunion next year.

My reasons are these — and the farmers of the West can deter-
mine it to-day — the wheat season is over and the corn, too, and about
that time is the most leisure for them. Therefore, if the chair is will-
ing, let it be moved that the second Wednesday in July be fixed as the
day.

A delegate from Alabama said that while it misrht suit Texas
better to hold the reunion in July, it would not suit Birmingham so
well, as most of the residents leave for the watering places about that
time and would not be present.

The question was put to the house and laid on the table. Then
the original motion, as offered by Gen. Underwood, came up, and was
carried.

Immediately thereafter a delegate rose and suggested to fix
the date for the third Tuesday in April, saying he did not think a bet-
ter time could be selected. As the question had already been passed
upon, the suggestion was out of order and at once withdrawn.

Chaplain Gen. Thos. K. Markham — I desire, with the permis-
sion of the President, to call the attention of this convention to a work
done by the Confederate camps of New Orleans and the State of Lou-
isiana. We have a soldiers' home. It has not yet been brought to
the attention of this order. It is on Bayou St- John, just below
Esplanade, the street cars will bring you within a block of it, and it
will be well for you to visit it to-morrow afternoon at four o'clock.
At the Soldiers' Home a crayon of Dr. Witherspoon, late Chaplain
of the Army of Tennessee, will be presented to the Home, and a
cordial invitation is extended to all to come .

The following resolution was then submitted to the convention:
A cordial invitation is extended to the members of this conven-
tion to visit the Soldiers' Home on Bayou St. John, below Esplanade
street. Bev. Dr. Markham, Chaplain General of the United Confed-
erate Veterans, will hold service at the Home to-morrow (Sabbath)
at 4. o'clock, and will present from the Association of the Army of
Tennessee, to the Home, a portrait of its late Chaplain, Bev. Dr . A.
J. Witherspoon.

Beceived and accepted.

The Chair — The hour for the review has arrived, and the bu-
siness of the convention having been completed, adjournment is in
order .

Chaplan General Markham pronounced the benediction:

"And now may grace, mercy and peace from God the Father,
God the Son and God the Holy Ghost abide with you always. Amen.

A motion prevailed to adjourn until 8 o'clock when the recep-
tion tendered Gen. Gprdon. and Other distinguished Generals would
he held/

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[NOTE. — It is not in my province to give a description in these proceed-
ings of this grand parade and review which was unparalled in the annals of the
Country, in time of peace. And which will never be forgotten by the thirty
thousand old veterans and glorious leaders who marched in the parade, nor by
the two hundred thousand citizens of New Orleans and visitors who witnessed a
scene which rivals romance — the remnant of a conquered army, receiving the
wildest demonstrations of love and affection from their people, over a quarter of
a century after their flag was furled forever. This more particularly belongs to
the duties and labors of the Local Committee of the Reunion.

Adjutant Gexeeal ]

Evening Session.

Washington Artilleky Hall, )

New Orleans, April 9th, 1892. j

The convention was called to order by Gen. Stephen D. Lee,
as Genl. Gordon's voice was still affected, who read the following
resolutions on the death of Gen. Robert Ransom, of North Caro-
lina, which were written by Gen. J. B. Gordon and offered by him;
and whose death was announced by Gen'l Lee to the convention in
very eulogistic remarks:

Whereas, In the mysterious dispensations of Providence our
comrade, Gen. Robert Ransom, of North Carolina, has been called
from this world to the better land; therefore

Be it Resolved, That we have learned with deepest sorrow of
the death of our late comrade, and place upon the minutes of this
Association this brief record of his services in testimony of our
sincere appreciation of his patriotism, and of devotion to his State,
his section and people; as well as of his courage and consecration, and
skill as a soldier and commander.

Gen. Robert Ransom was educated at West Point. With
prompt and commendable patriotism he resigned his commission in
the army of the United States when North Carolina passed the ordi-
nance of secession, and with all the ardor of his nature gave his
services to the Southern Confederacy.

His first service was as a gallant officer with the cavalry.
From this he was promoted successively for gallant services to the
rank of brigadier general of infantry and then to that of major
general.

He participated in nearly every great battle of Virginia and
won for himself and his State a bright and enduring fame.

His last years were passed in peaceful retirement among the
poeple he loved and had so faithfully served, and he died a consistent,
devout Christian in the hope and assurance of a blissful immortality
beyond tfee grave,

of the United Confederate Veterans. 113

On motion of Gen. James H. Cosgrove, of Louisiana, the
resolutions were adopted and ordered spread on the minutes.

Gen. Lee here announced that the business convention had
concluded its labors and it was in order to adjourn sine die.

Before adjournment a motion was adopted that the conven-
tion organize a reception to be tendered to Gen. Gordon and the
other officers present, together with our honored guest, Senator
John W. Daniel.

Major Ed. D. Manning called attention to the fact that pres-
ent here with Gen. Gordon was one who had proven herself, on one
occasion at least, and so vividly remembered by Hays' Louisiana
Brigade and the other troops there engaged, to be a better general
than her gallant husband. He referred to Mrs. John B. Gordon,
who, with her daughter, Miss Carrie Gordon, would be much grati-
fied to receive with the general and greet the United Confederate
Veterans and their many friends — the good people of Louisiana.

This announcement was received with the wildest enthusiasm,
and the ladies were escorted to the stage and placed by the side of
Gen. Gordon, where they shook the hands of the thousands who
passed in review upon that memorable reception by Gens. Gordon,
Kirby Smith, Senator John W. Daniel and other distinguished
general officers, which finally swelled into the proportions of a
mighty ovation as the thousands and tens of thousands of old vete-
rans and citizens, men, women and children, passed rapidly in review,
grasping the hands of these two ladies and of their idolized leaders,
and representatives of one of the most glorious epochs for valor and
devotion in the history of the world.

Chaplain General Rev. Dr. Thos. R. Markham here asked a
benediction, and on motion of Comrade J. A. Chalaron, the conven-
tion adjourned sine die, to next meet at Birmingham, Ala.

GEO. MOORMAN,

Ed. T. Manning, Adjutant General.

Reading Clerk.

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APPENDIX.

Following is itemized statement of receipts and expenditures
referred to in Adjutant General's report page 85.

Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General in account with

United Confederate Veterans.
1891.
Nov. 19. — Amount received from Gen. Clement A. Evans, as per his

statement, by sight draft on Atlanta $202 35

Less exchange 25

$202 10

Following amounts of per capita received are for the year
ending April 1st, 1892:
Army Northern Virginia Camp No. 1, per capita. . .

Army of Tennessee .
General Le Eoy Stafford . ,

N. B. Forrest

Fred Ault

Jeff Davis

Huston

Ex-Conf. Ass'n, Chicago . . .
Vet. Conf . States Cavalry . ,
"Ward Conf. Veteran Ass'n .

Raphael Semmes

W. W. Loring

E. E. Lee

Washington Artillery

Henry St. Paul

Baton Rouge

Iberville

Natchez

J. J. ; Whitney

Walthall -

Walthall ...

Isham Harrison

Sterling Price

Vicksburg

Vicksburg ,

R. L. Gibson

Jos. E. Johnston

Frank Cheatham

Hillsboro

Jno. Ingram

Major Victor Maurin

4, "

5, "

6, "

7, "

9, "

10, "

11, "

13, ad per capita . . .

13, "

14, per capita

15, "

16, "

17, "

18, "

20, per capita

22, per capita

25, membership fee .

25, per capita

27, per capita

31, per capita

32, membership fee.

32, per capita

33, "

34, "

34, membership fee .

35, per capita ......

35, membership fee .
36,

37,
38,

$22 20
34 40
5 40

12 30

5 60

11 20

13 00

6 00

14 90
10 30

15 70
70
50

12 60
22 60

4 20
8 80

5 70
12 70

4 40
2 00
8 40
4 00
29 00
2 00

6 60

7 80
6 00
2 00

32 50
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00

of the United Confederate Veterans.

Major Victor Maurin

W. J. Hardee

Natchitoches

Mouton

Stonewall Jackson

Jno. C. Upton

Palestine

J. E. B. Stuart

Felix K. Zollieoffer

Indian River

Albert Sidney Johnston

Woodville ,

Woodville

Jno. B. Gordon

Montgomery

Geo. T. Ward

Orange Co

Dibrell

Marion Co. Conf. Vet. Ass'n . . .
Marion Co. Conf. Vet. Ass'n. . .

Pasco Conf. Veteran Assn

R. E. Lee

Patton Anderson

Camp Moore

Col. B. Timmons

Calcasieu Confederate Veterans
Calcasieu Confederate Veterans

Jos. E. Johnston

Sanders

Howdy Martin

Granbury

. Camp No. 38, per capita

" 38, ad per capita . . .

"38,

" 39, membership fee .

" 39, per capita

'• 40, membership fee.

" 40, per capita

" 41, «•

" 41, membership fee.

" 42,

" 42, per capita

" 43, membership fee .

" 43, per capita

" 44, membership fee .

" 45,

" 45, per capita

" 46, membership fee .

" 46, per capita

'• 47, membership fee .

" 47, per capita

" 48, membership fee.

" 49,

" 49, per capita

" 50, membership fee .

" 52, membership fee .

" 52, per capita

" 53, membership fee .

" 54,

" 54, per capita

" 55, membership fee .

" 55, per capita ......

" 56, membership fee.

" 56, per capita

" 57, membership fee.

" 57, per capita

" 58, membership fee.

" 59.

" 60,

" 61,

" 61, per capita

" 62, membership fee .

" 62, per capita

" 63, membership fee.

" 63, per capita

" 64, membership fee.

" 64, per capita

" 65, membership fee.

" 67, membership fee.

115

$ 3 60
6 00

1 30

2 00
27 00

2 00
6 80
5 10

00
00

6 10

00
00

2 00
2 00
8 30

00
50
00
O'O
00

2 00

60
00
00
30
00
00
70

2 00

60
00

10 00
2 00
8 80
2 00
2 00

00
00
50
00

8 00
2 00
4 50
2 00
2 80

2 00
2 00

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Granbury Camp No.

Jeff Lee

Taylor Co

Albert Sidney Johnston "

Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston "

Abilene "

W. J. Hardee

Kockwall

Eockwall

Rockwall "

Albert Sidney Johnston "

Jno. Pelham "

Forbes "

Amite City

Amite City "

Merkel "

Kansas City "

Joe B. Palmer

Rosser "

Wm. Frierson

Barnard E. Bee "

Barnard E. Bee

Bedford Forrest ''

Bedford Forrest

Wm. L.Moody

Pat Cleburne

Camp Cabell "

Grayson Co. Texas "

Grayson Co. Texas

Stonewall Jackson

E. C. Walthall

Bob Stone

Joe Johnston

Paris

Pit
aris

Harrodsburg

Versailles

Georgetown

67, per capita 7 60

68, membership fee. 2 00

68, per capita 10 50

69, membership fee.

70, membership fee.

70, per capita

71, membership fee.

71, per capita

72, membership fee .
73,
74,
74, per capita

74, ad per capita ....

75, membership fee.

75, per capita

76, membership fee.

76, per capita

77, membership fee.
78,

78, per capita

79, membership fee.
80,
81,
82,
83,
84,

84, per capita

86, membership fee

86, per capita

87, membership fee

87, per capita

88, membership fee
89,
90, " 2 00

90, per capita 20 70

91, membership fee. 2 00

92, " 2 00

93, " 2 00

93, per capita

94, meinberhip fee.

94, per capita

95, membership fee

95, per capita

96, membership fee

96, per capita

97, membership fee. 2 00

97, per capita 2 20

98, membership fee. 2 00

00
00
40
00
20
00
00
00
30
50
00
00
00
30
00
00
60
00
00
00
00
00
00
60
00
50
2 00
6 90
2 00
2 00

13 70

2 00

10 00

00
60
00
60

of the United Confederate Veterans,

lit

Georgetown Camp No. 98, per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

Cynthiana
Cynthiana

Lexington

Lawrenceburg

Pat Cleburne

John B. Hood

Nassau

Magruder

R. Q. Mills

John H. Morgan

Jeff Davis

Collin Co. Texas

Isaiah Norwood

W. P.Townsend

Shropshire-Upton

Albert Sidney Johnston

Shackleford-Fulton

Albert Sidney Johnston

Jeff Davis

Stonewall Jackson

Joseph E. Johnston

Beauvoir

Col. Dud Jones

Bell Co. Ex-Confederate Ass'n. .
Bell Co. Ex-Confederate Ass'n. .

Camp Moody

J. B. Robertson

Camp Cabell

Robert E. Lee

Young County

John G. Walker

Sul Ross

Camp Bee

99,
99,
100,
100,
101,
101,
102,
102,
103,

104,

104,
105,
105,
105,
106,
106,
107,
108,
108,
109,
109,
110,
110,
111,
112,
113,
113,
114,
115,
117,
118,
119,
119,
120,
120,
121,
121,
122,
122,
123,
124,
125,
126,
127,
128,
129,
130,

1 10

2 00
60

2 00
19 10
2 00
90
2 00
6 30

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

ad. per capita. . .
membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee,

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.
membership fee.
membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

per capita

membership fee.

00
00

3 50

2 00

15 20

2 70
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
6 50
2 00
59 60

00
20
00
00
00
90
00
00
00
00
00

8 10

00
80
00
00
00

24 40

2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00

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Camp Bee Camp No. 130, per capita

John M. Stone.

John M. Stone

Milton

Milton ,

James L. Hogg

John L. McEwen

Ex-Conf. Ass'n Coryell Co.

Tom Green

Sampson

E. R. Lubbock

John W. Caldwell

D. L. Kenan

Camp Rogers

Bowling Green

C. M. Winkler

George T. Ward

Gen. Jos. Finnegan

Columbia County

Lomax

Richland ,

Richland

Wood County

Stewart

Bessemer

Fulton County, Ga

Excess sent by J. M. Stone Camp No. 131
do do J. W. Caldwell Camp No. 139
do do Wood County Camp No. 153.,

131, membership fee.

131, per capita

132, membership fee.

132, per capita

133, membership fee.

133, per capita

134, membership fee
135,

136,

137, "

138,

139,

139, per capita

140, membership fee .
140, per capita

142, membership fee.
143,

143, per capita

147, membership fee.

147, per capita

148, membership fee.

148, per capita

149, membership fee.

149, per capita

150, membership fee .

150, per capita

151, membership fee.

151, per capita

152, membership fee

152, per capita

153, membership fee.

153, per capita

155, membership fee.

155, per capita

157, membership fee.

157, per capita

159, membership fee ,
159, per capita

80
00
60
00

11 40

2
11

2
8
2
4

00
10
00
00
00
00
00
00
70

2 00

60
00
00
00
00

9 00

00
70

2 00

80
00
00
00
20
00
60
00
6 30

00
00
00
20
00

51 80
40
04
40

Deduct Stewart Camp No. 155, short .

$1312 84
01

Total amount received $1312 83

1891.

Nov. 19.
Nov. 20.

Dec. 5.
Dec. 17.

1892.
Jan. 13.

March 14.
March 17.

March 24.
March 25.

March 25.

March 26.
March 28.
March 29.
March 30.

March 30.

March 31.
April 1 .

April

April
April

of the United Confederate Veterans. 119

EXPENDITURES (WITH ITEMIZED BILLS ATTACHED) .

C. G. Schulze, for seal of U. C. V's $ 20 00

Jno. P. Hopkins, on account, for printing con-
stitutions, minutes of annual meeting, circu-
lars, etc 150 00

Sundry small bills, see itemized account 11 75

Sundry small bills do do 10 05

Sundry small bills itemized. . .'

J. J. Hooper, bill stationery and printing

Sundry bills, itemized

A. Runkel, 12 bolts ribbons for commissions and
charters

Natchez Camp returned amount overpaid

Joseph J. Hooper, bill for stationery, printing,
etc. , bill attached

Miss A. C. Childress, on account services as
stenographer

For stamps

Western Union Telegraph Co. itemized

A. Eunkel, for ribboD, etc

For stamps used in sending out Gen. Gordon's
address to 3300 newspapers, circulars, etc. .

Miss A. C. Childress on account services as
stenographer

Miss Childress, for lunch for ladies who volun-
teered to assist in office, make out commis-
sions, etc

For stamps

Paid Picayune for 150 papers with programme
of Reunion to send to Camps

For stamps sending out commissions, charters,
orders, etc

For stamps sending out commissions, etc

Paid salaries for arranging seal and ribbon on
commissions, charters, and making up pack-
ages, orders, etc., five weeks at $5.00 per
week, see voucher

For stamps

A. W. Hyatt, paid for stationery, books, print-
ing, etc., bill attached

Paid Jno. P, Hopkins for printing commissions,
500 copies each order, circulars, envelopes,
etc., etc., bill attached

Paid salaries for services, for Decem-
ber, January, February, March, for attend-
ing to office work, arranging documents and
papers, orders, minutes, etc. ; also attaching
seals, ribbons, etc., on commissions, charters,
etc., 20 weeks, $5 per week see voucher

5 GO

5 90

20 80

6 00
2 00

17 05

10 00
5 00

11 60

8 50

37 60
20 00

10 00
5 00

4 50

20 00
10 00

25 00

7 00

36 40

218 25

100 00

Amount expended $778 00

Balance on hand $534 83

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New Orleans, April 7th, 1892.

Following is supplemental list of amounts received since the
above report was made out, and is up to the adjournment of the
Convention.

Ben Humphreys Camp

Hattiesburg

Kitt Mott

Robert A. Smith

W. A. ^Montgomery

Confederate Historical Ass'n . .

Ben McCulloch

R. E. Lee . . ,

Camp Moore

R. E. Lee

Jeff Lee

Pat Cleburne

Bob Stone

Cythiana ,

R. Q.Mills

Collin Co. Texas

W. P. Townsend

Shackleford-Fulton

Albert Sidney Johnston

Jeff Davis

Stonewall Jackson

Joseph E. Johnston

J. B. Robertson

Camp Cabell

Young County

John G. Walker

Sul Ross

Crockett

Albert Sidney Johnston

BenT. DuVal

Ben T. DuVal

W. W. Loring

R. E.Lee

R E. Lee

Alvarado

No. 19, per capita.
" 21,

23, "

24, "

26, "

28, "

29, "

30, «

58, "

60, "

66, membership fee .

B6, per capita

68, "

88, "

93, ad. per capita . . .
99, ad. per capita. . .

106, per capita

109, ad. per capita . .
Ill, "

114, "

115, "

116, membership fee .

116, per capita

117, "

118, "

119, "

124, "

125, «

127, «

128, "

129, "

141, "

141, membership fee .
144,

144, per capita

146, membership fee.

146, per capita

154, membership fee.
158, membership fee

158, per capita

160, membership fee
160, per capita

$11 20

2 60

6 00
8 70

4 30
12 00
28 40

5 00

7 00
2 00

2 00
21 90

10 00

5 00
30
20

3 40
60

16 20

11 20
16 00

2 00

23 90

2 10

8 25
14 10

6 20

40
50

17 00

21 20

8 60

2 00

4 10

of the United Confederate Veterans.

121

Lamar Camp No.

Lamar . . . . , "

Catawba "

Horace Randall "

Sul Ross

Albert Sidney Johnston "

Albert Sidney Johnston . "

Hill County

Hill County. =

Claiborne ..'••• "

Claiborne "

Jeff Davis "

Tom Green

Matt Ashcroft

Washington City Confederate. "
Washington City Confederate. "

Sul Ross

161, membership fee.$ 2 00

161, per capita 3 90

162, membership fee. 2 00

162, per capita 5 20

163, membership fee . 2 00

163, per capita 8 00

164, membership fee. 2 00

164, per capita 3 00

165, membership fee. 2 00

165, per capita 3 00

166, membership fee. 2 00

166, per capita 20 00

167, membership fee. 2 00

167, per capita 3 90

168, membership fee. 2 00

168, per capita 1 70

169, membership fee. 2 00

169, per capita 1 50

170, membership fee . 2 00

170, per capita 8 50

171, membership fee. 2 00

171, per capita 2 10

172, membership fee. 2 00
172, per capita 4 00

[official.]

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief 'of Staff .

122 Report of Surg eon- General

Official Report of Joseph Jones, M. D., of New Orleans,
Louisiana, Surgeon- General United Confederate Vete-
rans, Concerning the Medical Department of the Con-
federate Army and Navy.

156 Washington Avenue, New Orleans, La., June 30, 1890.

To his Excellency John B. Gordon, General Commanding United Confederate
Vetera'as, Atlanta, Ga.:

General : I have the honor to submit the lollowing:

The Medical Department of the Confederate States was a branch of the
War Department, and was under the immediate supervision of the Secretary of
War. The Surgeon-General of the Confederate States was charged with the
administrative details of the Medical Department — the government of hospitals,
the regulation of the duties of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons, and the ap-
pointment of acting medical officers when needed for local or detached service.
He issued orders and instructions relating to the professional duties of medical
officers, and all communications from them which required his action were made
directly to him. The great struggle for the independence of the Southern
States ended twenty five years ago, and all soldiers in the Confederate Army,
from the Commanding General to the private in the ranks, were, by the power of
the conquering sword, reduced to one common level, that of paroled prisoners of
war.

The objects of the Association of Confederate Veterans of 1890 are chiefly
historical and benevolent. We conceive, therefore, that the labors of the Surgeon-
General relate to two important objects.

First. The collection and preservation of the records of the Medical Corps of
the Confederate Army and Navy. ,

Second. The determination by actual investigation and inquiry the numbers
and condition oj the surviving Confederate soldiers who have been disabled by wounds
and diseases, received in their heroic defense of (he rights and liberties of the Southern
States.

To accomplish the first object, the following Circular No. 1, has been
issued:

1. The Collection and Preservation of the Records of Medical Officers of the
Confederate Army and Navy.

Circular No. 1.
Office of Surgeon General United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La., April 9, 1890.
To the Survivors of the Medical Corps of the Confederate States Army and Navy :

Comrades— The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on this day, twenty-five years
ago, practically ended the struggle tor independence of the Southern States, and during this quarter
oi a century death has thinned our ranks, and our corps can now eppose but a broken line in
the great struggle aga nst humm suffering, disease and death. S. P. Moore, Surgeon-General of
the Confederate Arniy is dead; Chas. Bell Gibson, Surgeon-General of Virginia; Surgeons L. Guild,
A. J. Ford, J. A. A. Berrian, J. T. Darby, W. A. Carnngton, S. A. Ramsav, Samuel ( hoppin, Robert
J. Breckenridge, E. N. Covey, E. S. Galliard, Paul F. Eve, O. F. Manson', Louis D. Foard, S. E. Ha-
bersham, James Bolton, R >bert Gibbea, and a host of medical officers of the Confederate States
Army are dead. The Association of the United (Jonf. derate Veterans was formed in New Orleans
June 10, 188), the objects oi which are historical, social and benevolent. Our illustrious commander.
General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, has ordered the United Confederate Veterans to assemble at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, on July 3, 1890. It is earnestly hoped that every surviving member of the
Medical Corps of tlie Confederate Army and Navy will meet upon this important occasion, and pro-
mote by his presence and his counsels the sacred interests of the United Confederate Veterans. I;
is of the greatest importance to the future historian, and also to the honor and welfare of the med-
ical profession of the South, t at careful records should be furnished to the Surgeon-General of the
United Confederate Veterans, embracing the following data:

1st. Name, nativity, date of commission in the Confederate States Army and Navy, nature and
length of service of every member pf the Medical Corps of the Confederate States Army ftn.4 Navy. *

United Confederate Veterans. 123

2. Obituary notices and records of all deceased members of the Medical Corps of the Confed-
erate Army and Navy. ■

3d. The titles and copies of all field and hospital reports of the Medical Corps of the Confed-
erate Army aud Navy.

4th. Titles aud copies of all published and unpublished reports relating to military surgery,
and to diseases of armies, camps, hospitals and prisons.

The obiect proposed to be accomplished by the Surgeon-General of the United Confederate
Veterans, is the collection classification, preservation, and final publication of all the documents
and lacts bearing upon the history and labors of the Medical Corps of the Confederate States Army
and Navy, during the civil war, 1861-65. Everything which relates to the critical period of our na-
tional history, which shail illustrate the patriotic, self-sacrificing, and scientific labors of the Medical
Corps of the Confederate St tes Army and Navy, and which shall vindicate the truth of
history, shall be industriously collected, file i and finally published. It is believed that
invaluable documents are scattered over the whole land, in the hands of survivors of the
civil war of 1861 -le65, which will form material for the correct delineation of the med-
ical history of the corps which played so important a part in the great historic drama.
Death is daily thinning our ranks, while time is laying its heavy hands upon the heads of
those whose hair is already whitening with the advance of years and the burden of cares. No delay,
fellow comrades, should be suffered in the collection and preservation of these precious documents.

To this task of collecting all documents, cases, statistics and facts relating to the medical
history of the Confederate Army and Navy, the Surgeon-General of the United Confederate Vet-
erans invites the immediate attention and co-operation of his honored comrades and compatriots
throughout the South.

Respectfully, your obedient servant

[Signed] JOSEPH JONES, M. D.

Formation of the Medical Corjis of the Confederate Army and Navy.

The entire army of the Confederate States was made up of volunteers
from every walk of life, and the Surgical Staff of the army was composed of
general practitioners from all parts of the Southern country whose previous
professional life, during the period of unbroken peace which preceded the civil
war, 1861-65, gave them but little surgery, and very seldom presented a gunshot
wound. The study of the hygiene of vast armies hastily collected to repel
invasion, poorly equipped and scantily fed, as well as the frightlul experience
of the wounded upon the battle field, and the horrible sufferings of the sick and
wounded in the hospital, unfolded a vast field for the exercise of the highest
skill and the loftiest patriotism of the medical men of the South. This body of
men devoted solely to the preservation of the health of the troops in the field, and
the preseivation of their precious lives, and the surgical care of their mangled
bodies and limbs, and the treatment of their diseases in field and general hospi-
tal, responded to every call of their bleeding country, and formed upon land and
upon sea one indivisible corps, which penetrated all arms of the service, and
labored for every soldier, however exalted or|however low his rank. When the
stoim of war suddenly broke upon the Confederacy, and the thunders of cannon
were heard around her borders, and her soil trembled with the march of armed
battalions; when her ports where blockaded, and medicines and surgical instru-
ments and works were excluded as contraband of war, the medical practitioners of
the South gave their lives and fortunes to their country, without any prospect of
military or political fame or preferment. They searched the fields and forests for
remedies; they improvised their surgical implements from the common instruments
of every day life; they marched with the armies, and watched by day and by night
in the trenches. The Southern surgeons rescued the wounded on the battle field,
binding up the wounds, and preserving the shattered limbs of their countrymen ;
the Southern surgeons through four long years opposed their skill and nntiring
energies to the ravages of war and pestilence. At all times, and under all circum-
stances, in rain and sunshine, in the cold winter and the burning heat of summer,
and the roar of battle, the hissing of bullets and the shriek and crash of shells, the
arave hearts, cool heads, and strong arms of Southern surgeons were employed but
for one purpose — the preservation of the health and lives and th6 limbs of their
countrymen. The Southern surgeons were the first to succor the wounded and the
sick, and their ears recorded the last words of love and affection for country and
kindred, and their hands closed the eyes of the dying Confederate soldiers. When
the sword decided the cause against the South, and the men who had for four years
borne the. Confederacy upon their bayonets surrendered Prisoners of war, the mem-

124 Report oj Surgeon- General

bers of the. Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and Navy returned to theif
desolate homes and resumed the practice of their profession, spoke words o
cheer to their distressed countrymen, administered to the sufferings ot the sick and
wounded Confederate soldiers, and extended their noble and disinterested charities
to the widows and orphans of their bereaved and distressed country.

Whilst political soldiers rose to power and wealth upon the shoulders of the
sick and disabled soldiers of the Confederate Army, by sounding upon all occasions
"their war records, J the modest veterans of the Medical Corps of the Confederate
Army and Navy were content to serve their sick, wounded and distressed comrades,
asking and receiving no other reward than that "peace which passelh all under-
standing," which flows from the love of humanity, springing from a generous and
undefiled heart. It is but just and right that a Roll of Honor should be formed of
this band of medical heroes and veterans.

Magnitude of the Labors of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and Navy.

Some conception of the magnitude of the labors performed in field and hos-
pital service, by the officers of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army, may be
formed by the consideration of the following general results:

Killed, Wounded and Prisoners of the Confederate Army.

Year. Killed. Wounded. Prisoners.

1861 1.315 4.054 2,772

1862 18,582 68.659 48,300

1863 11,876 51,313 71,211

1864) f

J 22,200 70,000 J 80,000

1865 ) (

Total, 1861-5 53,973 194.026 202,283

During the period of nineteen months, January, 1862, July, 1863, inclusive,
over one million cases of wounds and disease were entered upon the Confederate
field reports, and over four hundred thousand cases of wounds upon the hospital
reports. The number of cases of wounds and disease treated in the Confederate field
and general hospitals were, however, greater during the following twenty-two
months, ending April, 1 865. It is safe to affirm, therefore, that more than three
million cases of wounds and disease were cared for by the officers of the Medical
Corps of the Confederate Army during the civil war of 18611865. The figures, of
course, do not indicate that the Confederacy had in the field an army approaching
three millions and a half. On the contrary, the Confederate forces engaged during
the war 1861-1865 did not exceed 600,000. Each Confederate soldier was, on an
average, disabled for greater or lesser period, by wounds and sickness, about six
times during the war.

Losses of the Confederate Army, 1861-1865.

Confederate forces actively engaged during the war 1861-1865 600,000

Grand total deaths from battle, wounds and disease 200,000

Losses of Confederate Army in prisoners during the warkon account of the policy of non-ex-
change adopted and enforced by the United States 200,000

Losses of the Confederate Army from discharges for disabilities from wounds and disease

and desertion during the years 1861-1865 100, OOq

If this calculation be correct, one-third of all the men actually engaged on
the Confederate side were either killed outright on the field or died of disease and
wounds; another third of the entire number were captured and held for indefinite
periods prisoners of war ; and, of the remaining '200,000, at least one -half were lost
to the service by discharges and desertion.

At the close of the war the available active force in the field, and those fit
for duty, numbered scarcely 100,000 men.

The great Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered by General Robert E.
Lee on the 9th. of April, 1865, could not muster 10,000 men fit for active warfare.
Qf this body of 600,000 men, 53,773 were killed outright and 104,026 wounded on

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tine battle field. One-third cf the entire Confederate army was confided to the Con-
federate surgeons for the treatment of battle wounds; and, in addition to such gi-
gantic services, the greater portion, if not the entire bodv of the 600,000 men, were
under the rare of the medical department for the treatment, of disease.

Well mav it be said that to the surgeons of the medical corps is due the credit,
of "maintaining this host of troops in the field. Such records demonstrate, beyond
dispute, the grand triumnhs and glory of medicine, proving that the physician is
the preserver and defender of armies during war.

These records show that the medical profession, however indispensahle in
the economv of government during peace, become the basis of such economy during
war. These statistics show the importance of medicine and its glorious triumphs,
and elevate it logicallv to its true position in the estimation of not, onlv the physi-
cian, but in that also of the warrior and statesman. The energv and patriotic bravery
of the Confederate soldier are placed in a clear light when we regard the vast
armies of the Federa.ls to which they were opposed.

The whole number of troops mustered into the service of the Northern armv,
during the war of 1861-186-5. was 2.789.893, or about three times as large as the
entire fighting population of the Confederate States. At, the time of the surrender
of the Confederate armies, and the close of active hostilities, the Federal force num-
bered 1,000,516 of all arms, officers and men, and equalled in number the entire
fighting population of the Southern Confederacv.

Opposed to this immense army of one million of men, supplied with the best
equipments and arms, and with the most abundant, rations of food, the Confederate
government could oppose less than one hundred thousand war-worn and battle-
scarred veterans, almost all of whom had, at some time, been wounded, and who
had followed the desperate fortunes of the Confederacv for four years with scant
supplies of rations, and almost without pav ; and vet, the spirit of the Confederate
soldier remained proud and unhroken to the last charge, as was conclusivelv shown
by the battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee; the operations a.ronnd Rich-
mond and Petersburg ; the last charge of the Armv of Northern Virginia; the defense
of Fort McAlister on the Ogeechee river in Georgia, where 250 Confederate soldiers,
in an open earthwork, resisted the assaults of more than five thousand Federal troops,
and never surrendered, bur were cut down at their guns ; at West Point, Georgia,
where ther^ was a similar disparitv between the garrison and the assaulting corps,
where the first and second in command w«re killed, and the Confederates cut down
within the fort: the defense of Mobile in Alabama, and the battle of Bentonville in
North Carolina.

Number of Officers and Ros/er of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army

and Navy.

The destruction bv fire of the Medical and Surgical Record of ihfi Confeder-
ate States, deposited in the Surgeon-General's office in Bichmond Virginia., in April,
1865, has rendered the preparation of a complete Roster of the Medical Corps very
difficult, if not impossible.

A general estimate of the aggregate number of medical officers employed in
the Medical Department of the Southern Confederacy may be determined bv the
number of commissioned officers in the Confederate Army down to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel. Each regiment in the Confederate Armv was entitled to one
Colonel, one Surgeon, and one or two Assistant Surgeons, and a medical officer was
generally attached to each battalion of infantrv, cavalry or artillery. Generals,
Lieutenant-Generals. Major-Genesis, and Brigadier-Generals, frequently, if not
always, had attached to their staff Medical Directors, Inspectors, or Surgeons of
Corps Divisions and Brigades.

We gather the following figures from the elaborate and invaluable "Foster
of General Officers, etc.. in Confederate Service." prepared from official sources by
Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Georgia.*

*Eoster of0eneral Officers. HeSVt aTfPepartrnentB, FepntorR, •Rppre=«>nf»ftvep7 Mili ta ry Orgra n.
iKatl"CS. etc.. etc.. in ConteflerBte Service Purine? the War Between the Ratec. By Oiaijegi C, jTpnePj

jr., ^e T^ut.^lonel of Artillery, JUoJim^no, Ya. So«Uipr» Historical Society. 1916.

126 Report of Surgeon-General

Confederate Stales Army.

Generals

Provisional Army: J
Generals 2

Confederate States Army— Eegular and Provisional :

Lieutenant-Generals 21

Major-Geiprais 99

Brigadii r-Geaerals -. -. 480

Colonels 1319

Total 1927

If it be estimated that for each of these officers, one Surgeon and two Assist-
ant Surgeons were appointed, and served in field and hospital, then the Confederate
Medical Corps was composed of about the following:

Surgeons 1927

Assistant Surgeons 3854

5781

This estimate places the number of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons at too
high a figure, as may be shown by the following considerations:

a. Many regiments and battalions had not more than two medical officers.

b. The casualties of war were much more numerous, and promotion was
much more rapid, amongst the line officers than in the Medical Staff.

A more accurate estimate of the actual number of medical officers actively
engaged in the Confederate Army during the war 1861-1865, may be based upon the
number of regiments, battalions, and legions of infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
furnished by the individual States, during the civil war :

Total number of regiments infantry 536

cavalry 124

artillery 13

Total 673

These regiments were furnished by the individual States, as follows:

Infantry. Cavalry, Artillery.

Alabama 57 3

Arkansas.... 34 6

Florida , 9 3

Georgia 67 10

Kentucky 11 9

Louisiana , 34 1 1

Maryland 1

Mississippi 51 5 1

Missouri 15 6

North Carolina 60 5 4

South Carolina 33 7 3

Tennessee 70 12

Texas 22 32

"Vi ginia 64 19 4

Confederate 8 6

Total..'. 536 124 13

Grand total regiments 673

Total number of battalions infantry 67

cavalry 28

artillery 50

Total 143

Total legions infantry 13,

cavalryj , 3.

artillery

Total ie

Total battalions and legions '.. 161

Total regiments 673

Total regiments, battalions and legions comprising the Confederate Army during the war 1861-

1&65 ..„.., , „.„ 83^

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If one Surgeon and two Assistant Surgeons be allowed to each separate com-
mand actively engaged in tbe field during the civil war, 1861-1865, the number
would be as follows :

Surgeons 834

Assistant Surgeons 1668

Total., 2502

The medical officers of the Confederate Navy numbered :

Surgeons - 22

Assistant Surgeons 10

Passed Assistant Surgeons 41

Total medical officers C. S. N 73

If to the above he added the Surgeons of the general hospitals, recruiting
and conscript camps, the entire number of medical officers in the Confederate
Army during the war, 1861-1865. did not amount to 3000.

The Surgeon-General of the United Confederate Veterans has endeavored
to construct an accurate Roster from his labors in the field and hospital during
the war, and from the official roll of the Confederate armies in the field, and thus
far he has been able to record the names and rank of near two thousand Confed-
erate Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons.

The official list of the paroled officers and men of the Army of Northern
Virginia, surrendered by Gen. Robert E. Lee, April 9th, 1865, furnished 310 Sur-
geons and Assistant Surgeons.

The co-operation in this most important work is solicited from every sur-
viving member of the Medical Corps of the Southern Confederacy.

When perfected, this Roster will be published as a roll of honor and de-
, posited in the archives of the United Confederate Veterans. *

The Determination of the Number and Condition of the Surviving Confederate

Soldiers who were Disabled by the Wounds and Diseases Received in the

Defense of the Bights and Liberties of the Southern States.

To accomplish this important and benevolent work, the following inquiries
have been addressed to the Governors of the Southern States, namely: Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Mis-
souri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia:

Circular No. 1.

Office of Surgeon-General, United Confederate Veterans, 1
156 Washington Avenue, 4th District,

New Orleans, La.. April 9, 1890. )

To His Excellency, Governor , State of :

Th° attention of your Excellency is repectfullv directed to the fact that in the year 1889 the
Association of the United Confederate Veterans was formed in New Orleans for historical, social and
benevolent purposes. Our illustrious Commanding General, His Excellency, General John B.
Gordon, has ordered the assembling of the Confederate Veterans In Chattanooga. Tennessee, 3d of
July, 1890. The welfare of the United Confederate Veterans will be materially promoted if your
Exeelltncy will furnish the Surgeon-General with the following data:

1. The number of troops lurnished to the Confederate States by the State of .

?. Number of wounded during the civil war 1861-1865.

3. Numi er of killed during the civil war 1861-1865.

4. Number of deaths by wounds and disease.

5. Number of Confederate survivors now living in the State of .

6. The amount of moneys appropriated by the State of for the relief and support of

the survivors of the Confederate Army from the close of the civil war in 1805 to the presei t date, 1£90.

7. Name, location and capacity of all establishments, hospitals or homes devoted to the care
of maimed, sick and ind'gent survivors of the Confederate States Army.

8. A detailed statement ol the moneys expended by the State of for the support of

he maimed, disabled and indigent sui vivors of the Confederate Army.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOSEPH JONES, M. D.
Surgeon-General United, Confederate Veteran

128 Report of Surgeon- General

It was earnestly desired that prompt and full reports on the part of the
Chief Executives of the Southern States would have enabled the Surgeon-Gen-
eral to place in the hands of the Commanding General of the United Confederate
Veterans, at the first reunion on the 4th of July, 1890, full statistics of the num-
ber of disabled Confederate Veterans cared for by the individual States. But
replies have been received from only six of the thirteen States of the late Con-
federacy, and in three of these States it appears that no official assistance has
been rendered by the State authorities to the Confederate Veterans of 1861-1865.

The Southern States are morally bound to succor and support the men who
were disabled by the wounds and diseases received in their service, and the
widows and orphans of those who fell in battle. The Confederate soldiers who
engaged in the struggle for constitutional liberty and the right of self-govern-
ment were neither rebels nor traitors; they were true and brave men, who de-
voted their fortunes and their lives to the mothers who bore them, and their
precious blood watered the hills, valleys and plains of their native States, and
their bodies sleep in unknown graves, where they shall rest until the last great
trumpet shall summon all alike, the conquered and the conqueror.

The survivors have no government, with its hundreds of millions for pen-
sions; ill the loneliness and suffering of advancing years and increasing infirm-
ities, they can look alone to the States which they served so fathfully in battle,
iii victory and in defeat.

The noble soldiers who composed the illustrious armies of Northern Vir-
ginia and Tennessee made a gallant fight against overwhelming odds for what
they believed to be sacred rights and constitutional liberty. The contest was
decided by the sword against them.

These matchless soldiers accepted the issue in good faith; they returned
to their homes-, they resumed the avocations of peace, and engaged in building
up the broken fortunes of family and country. These brave soldiers have dis-
charged the obligations of good and peaceful citizens as well as they had performed
the duties of thorough soldiers on the battle field. It has been well said that no
country ever produced braver or more intelligent and chivalric soldiers or more
industrious, law-abiding and honorable citizens than were the soldiers who sur-
rendered with the Confederate flag. The earth has never been watered by no-
bler or richer blood than that shed by those who fell beneath its folds.

I have the honor, General, to remain. Your obedient seivant,

JOSEPH JONES, M. D.,

Surgeon- General United Confederate Veterans.

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Brief Report of the First Reunion of the Survivors of the Med-
ical Corps of the Confederate Army and Navy, July 2, 1890,
in N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, Tenn.— Address of
Surgeon-General Joseph Jones, M. D., United Confederate
Veterans, Containing War Statistics of the Confederate
Armies of Mississippi and Tennessee; also Casualties of
Battles of Belmont, Donnelson, Shiloh, Perryville, Mur-
freesboro, Chickamauga ; Engagements from Dalton to At-
lanta; Battles Around Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin and
Nashville.

The meeting of the Confederate Surgeons, assembled by invitation in N. B.
Forrest Camp, was called to order by Surgeon G. W. Drake ofj Chattanooga, Medi-
cal Director of the Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, who explained its
objects and extended a hearty welcome in a brief but eloquent address.

Surgeon Drake introduced Joseph Jones, M. D., of New Orleans, Surgeon-
General of the United Confederate Veterans, who spoke as follows:

"Comrades, survivors of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and
Navy, we meet for the first reunion since the close of the war between the Northern
and Southern States in this Camp, which bears the name of N. B. Forrest, one of
the greatest cavalry leaders of the American war of 1861-1865. In the midst of this
peaceful and beautiful city, we are surrounded by the mementoes and emblems of
war. Dr. J. B. Cowan, Chief Surgeon, and Dr. John B. Morton, Chief of Artillery
of Gen. N. B. Forrest's Cavalry, and Dr. A. E. Flewellen, Medical Director of the
Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg, and many other distinguished rep-
resentatives of the Confederate Army and Navy, are with us; and we are glad to
welcome once more the noble forms and brave countenances of the Confederate
Veterans.

As the speaker stood this day upon the summit of Lookout Mountain, at an
elevation of 2,678 feet, the mountains and valleys of Tennessee and Georgia pre-
sented a panorama of wonderful beauty and unsurpassed historical interest. At the
foot of the mountain, which stands silent and alone, like the Egyptian Sphinx,
winds the beautiful Tennessee, embracing the growing and active city of Chatta-
nooga; like a crown of jewels, spreading around and over Cameron's Hill, once
crowned with stern battlements and frowning cannon. Here at our feet lies Moc-
casin Bend, as beautiful as a garden with its fields of waving grain. Up this steep
mountain side charged the Northern hosts, and here was fought "The Battle Above
the Clouds." The eye ranges over Waldron's Ridge and Missionaiy Ridge, rendered
historic by bloody and desparate battles. Twenty-seven years ago the soldiers of
General Bragg, ranged along the crest of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge,
held the Northern army closely invested within the military and fortified camp of
Chattanooga, and sustaining npon their bayonets the fortunes of the Southern Con-
federacy in the west, they resisted the southward flow of the red tide of war, and
for a time protected the mountains, hills and valleys of Georgia from the devastat-
ing march of Northern hostile armies.

Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia.

To the south winds the river of Death, along whose densely wooded bank, on
the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, lay thirty thousand dead, dying and wound-
ed Confederate and Federal soldiers.

The battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, is justly regarded as one of the most
bloody conflicts of the war.

General Bragg's effective force on the first day of the battle, September 19,
1863, exclusive of cavalry, was a little over 35,000 men, which was in the afternoon

130 Report of burgeon- General

reinforced by five brigades of Longstreet's corps numbering about 5000 effective in-
fantry, without artillery. The Confederate loss was in proportion to the prolonged
and obstinate struggle, and two-fifths of these gallant troops were killed and
wo*nded.

Dr. A. E. Flewellen, the Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee, who is
with us at this reunion, active and energetic in body and mind, at the age of 70
years, gave the following estimate of the Confederate losses in this bloody battle
of Chickamauga:

Battle of Chickamauga — Confederate Losies.

Corps. Killed. Wounded. Total.

Polk 440 2.891 3,331

Hill 311 2,354 2,065

Buckner 436 2,844 3,280

Walker 367 2,045 2.412

Lougstreet 260 1,656 1,916

Forrest 10 40 50

Grandtotal 1,824 11,830 13,654

The full and revised returns of all the Confederate forces engaged in this
bloody battle show that the estimate of the Medical Director of the casualties was
below and not above the actual loss.

The aggregate casualties of the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, were
officially reported by General Braxton Bragg, as 2012 killed, 12,999 wounded, and
2084 missing ; total, 17.095.

From the original reports in the possession of Gen. Braxton Bragg, we con-
solidated the following:

On the 19th of September, Lieutenant-General Polk's corps numbered 13,313
effective officers and men, artillery. and infantry ; on the 20th, 11,075. Daring the
two days' battle, Polk's corps lost, killed 442, wounded 3141, missing 531 ; total
4114.

On the 19th of September, Lieutenant-General Longstreet's corps numbered
2189; on the 20tb, 7635 ; loss, killed 471, wounded 2887, missing 311 ; total 3669.

Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill's corps numbered, September 19th, 7137; on
the 20th, 8812; loss, killed 380, wounded 2456, missing 168; total 3004.

Major-General S. B. Buckner's corps numbered. September 19th, 9080; on
the 20th, 6961 ; loss, killed 378, wounded 2566, missing 341 ; total 3285.

Major-General W. H. F. Walker's corps; September 19th, 7537; 20th, 5974;
loss, killed 341, wounded 1949, missing 733; total 3023.

On the 19th of September the number of Confederate officers and men en-
gaged were

Infantry officers 3,343

Infantry enlisted men 34,096

Total infantry 37,439

Artillery — Officers 76

Enlisted men 1,791

Total 1.867

Total Infantry and Artillery 39,30b

On the 20th of September the number of Confederate officers and men
engaged were:

Infantry— Officers 3>648

Enlisted men , 35,124

Total Infantry 38,772

United Confederate Veterans. 131

Artillery — Officers 68

Enlisted men 1,617

Total Artillery 1,685

Total Infantry and Artillery... 40,457

Total officers and men killed, wounded and missing, artillery and infantry,
September 19 and 20, 1863: Killed, 2012; wounded, 12,999; missing 2084; total,
17,095.

Right Wing, Commanded by Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk .

Killed. Wounded. Missing. Total.

Polk'scorps 442 3141 531 4114

Hill's corps 380 2456 168 3004

Walker's corps 341 '1949 733 3023

1163 7546 1432 10,141

Left Wing, Lieutenant General James Longttreet.

Longstreefs corps 471 2887 311 3669

Buckner 378 2566 341 3285

849 5453 652 6954

Grand total right and left wing: Killed, 2012; wounded, 12,999; missing,
2084; total, 17,095.

Nearly one-half of the army consisted of reinforcements, just before the
battle, without a wagon or an artillery horse, and nearly if not quite one-third of
the artillery horses were lost on the field; the medical officers had means greatly
inadequate, especially in transportation, for the great number of wounded sud-
denly thrown upon their hands, in a wild and sparsely settled country; many of
the wounded were exhausted by two days' battle, with limited supplies of water,
and almost destitute of provisions.

The fruits of this glorious victory, purchased by an immense expenditure
of the precious blood of the Southern soldiers, were lost to the Southern Confed-
eracy through the indecision and indiscretion of the Confederate commander.

Casualties of the Army of Tennessee, November, 1S63.

The casualties of tke Army of Tennessee during the subsequent disasters
of Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and Knoxville, Tenn., are comparatively
small in comparison to the magnitude of the operations.

The losses of the Confederate forces were :

Knoxville, November 18 to 29— Killed, 260; wounded, 880. Total, 1140.

Lookout Mountain, November 23 and 24 — Killed, 43; wounded, 135. Total,
178.

Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863— Killed, 383; wounded, 1882. Total,
2265.

Tunnell Hill, November 27— Killed, 30; wounded, 129. Total, 159.

Aggregate of these engagements — Killed, 716; wounded, 3026. Total, 3742.

We have, then, as a grand aggregate of the Confederete losses in battle
in the operations around Chattanooga, Tennessee:

Killed. Wounded. Missing.

Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, Sept. 19 and 20 2012 12,999 2,087

Knoxville, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Tunnell Hill, No-
vember 18, 29 716 3,026

Total 2728 16,025

Aggegate Loss 20,840

This estimate does not include the losses in prisoners sustained by General
Bragg's Army at Knoxville, at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, which
would swell the total loss to over 30,000 men.

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The desperate and bloody nature of the Confederate operations around
Chattanooga, in the months of September and November, 1863, will be seen by a
brief view of the preceding great battles fought by the armies of Mississippi and
Tennessee, and ot the subsequent campaigns under General Joseph E. Johnston
and General J. B. Hood, in 1864 and 1865.

At the battle of Belmont, Missouri, on the 7th November, 1861, the Con-
federate forces, under the command of General Leonidas Polk, defeated the Fed-
eral forces untler General U. S.Grant, with a loss to the former of killed, 105;
wounded, 419; missing, 117; total, 641.

The Confederate operations of 18G1 and 1862, as conducted by General
Albert Sidney Johnston, up to the battle of Shiloh, were characterized by the
most appalling disasters.

Fort Henry, Tennessee, fell February 6, 1862, with an insignificant loss of
5 killed, 11 wounded, 63 prisoners.

Fort Donelson, Tennessee, after three days's fighting, February, 14, 15 and
16, 1862, surrendered with a loss of killed 231, wounded 1007, prisoners 13,829;
total Confederate loss, 15,067. With the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson, the
Cumberland and Tennessee were opened to the passage of the iron-clad gunboats
of the Northern Army; Kentucky passed under the Federal yoke; Nashville, the
proud political and literary emporium of Tennessee, was lost, and this noble
State became the common battle ground of hostile and contending armies.

Both sides levied recruits and supplies from the unfortunate citizens of
Tennessee; Columbus, Kentucky, was abandoned, and the fall of Island No. 10,
Fort Pillow and Memphis followed.

The unbroken tide of Federal victory in the west was rudely arrested by
the armies gathered by General Albert Sidney Johnson and General G. T. Beau-
regard near the southern shore of the Tennessee, at Corinth, Mississippi.

The brave Confederate commander, General Albert Sidney Johnston sealed
his devotion to the Southery Confederacy with his life, on the 6th of April, 1B62,
whilst leading to victory the gallant soldiers of the armies of Mississippi and
Tennessee.

At the battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 186*2, the effective total of the Con-
federate forces, comprising the Army of Mississippi, before the battle, numbered
40,355, and after the bloody repulse of the 7th, the effective total was only 29,636.
General Beauregard, in his official report, places his loss at Shiloh at 1728 killed
outright, S012 wounded, 959 missing, making an aggregate of casualties of 10,b99.
The losses at Shiloh were distributed among the different corps of the
Confederate Army as follows:

Killled. Wounded. Missing.

First Corps, Major General Polk 385 1,953 19

Second Corps, Major General Bragg 553 2,441 634

Third Corps.Major General Hardee 404 1,936 141

Reserve, Major General Breckenridge 386 1,682 165

Total 1,728 8,012 959

The sufferings of the Confederate wounded were great, indeed, as they lay
upon the cold ground of Shiloh during the night of the 6th, exposed to the
pitiless rain and the murderous fire of the gunboats. In the subsequent siege
of Corinth, less than 50,000 Confederate troops successfully resisted the advance
of 125,000 Federal troops abundantly supplied with food and water, and armed
and equipped with most approved weapons of modern warfare.

The losses of the Confederate forces from disease during the siege of
Corinth equalled, if they did not exceed, the casualities of the battle of Shiloh.

General Beauregard, by his masterly evacuation of Corinth, eluded his
powerful antagonist. The armies of Mississippi and Tennessee, under the
leadership of General Bragg, inaugurated the campaign of 1862 for the recovery
of Tennessee and Kentucky.

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At the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, the Army of Miss-
issippi, under the command of General Leonidas Polk, lost killed, 510; wounded,
2635; missing, 251; total, 3396.

In the Kentucky campaign of 1862, the Confederate troops under the
command of Generals Bragg and E. Kirby Smith manifested their powers of
endurance on long and fatiguing marches, and their excellent discipline in re-
treating in good order in the face of overwhelming hostile forces.

At the battle of Murfreesboro, December 31, 1862, and January 1,1863, the
Confederate army lost nearly one-third of its number in killed and wounded.

General Bragg, in his official report of this battle, estimates the number
of his righting men in the field on the morning of the 31st of December at less
than 35,000, of which about 30,000 were infantry and artillery, During the two
days' fighting General Bragg's army lost 1600 killed and 8000 wounded; total,
9600 killed and wounded.

From the 6th of April, 1862, to the close of the year 1863, the Army of
Mississippi and Tennessee lost in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro and Chick-
amauga 6,046 killed on the field, and 32,035 wounded; total killed and wounded,
38,081.

We do not include in this estimate the loss sustained at Perryville, in
Bragg's Kentucky campaign, or in numberless skirmishes and cavalry engage-
ments. More than 50,000 wounded men were cared for by the medical officers
of the Army of Tennessee during a period of less than twenty-one months.

The deaths from disease exceeded those from gun-shot wounds, and the
sick from the camp diseases of armies greatly exceeded the wounded, in the pro-
portion of about five to one; and during the period specified, embracing the bat-
tles of Shiloh and Chickamauga, the sick and wounded of the armies of Tenn-
essee and Mississippi numbered more than 200,000.

Surely from this mass of suffering humanity, valuable records and prac-
tical precepts in the practice of medicine and military surgery must have been
evolved. It was and is the solemn duty of every member of the Medical Corps
of the Anmy of Tennessee to place the results of his experience in a tangible
form, accessible to his comrades; and no officer, however important his position
during the Confederate struggle, has the right to withhold for his personal bene-
fit the Hospital and Medical Records of the Army of Tennessee. These views
are applicable to the medical and surgical statistics of the several armies of the
late Confederacy east and west of the Mississippi.

The armies of Tennessee and Mississippi, under the command of General
Joseph E. Johnston, sustained a loss of killed, 1221, wounded, 8229, total 9450 —
in the series of engagements around and from Dalton, Georgia, to the Etowah
river, May 7th to May 30th. 1864; series of engagements around New Hope
Church, near Marietta, June 1, July 4, 1864.

The army of Tennessee (the army of Mississippi being merged into it),
under the command of General J. B. Hood, during the series of engagements
around Atlanta and Jonesboro July 4 to September I, 1864: loss, killed, 1823,
wounded, 10,723; total, 12,546.

During a period of four months the armies of Tennessee and Mississippi
fought no less than six important battles, and sustained a loss of killed, 3044,
wounded, 18,952. Total killed and wounded, 21,996.

During the month of October, 1864, the Army of Tennessee lost killed,
118; wounded, 622 total, 740. During the month of November: Killed, 1089;
wounded, 3131; total, 4220. These casualties include the bloody battle of Frank-
lin, Tenn., fought, November 30, 1864.*

As shown by Colonel Mason's official report, made on the 10th of Decem-
ber, ten days after the battle of Franklin, the effective strenght of the Army of
Tennessee was: Infantry, 18,342; artillery, 2405; cavalry, 2306; total, 23,053.
This last number, subtracted from 30,600, the strenght of General Hood's army
at Florence, shows a total loss, from all causes, of 7547 from the 6th of Novem-
ber to the 10th of December, which period embraces the engagements at Colum-
bia, Franklin, and of Forrest's cavalry. t

*Keport or Surgeon A. J. i'oaid, Medical Director Army ol Tennessee.
| General J. B. Hood, "Advance and retreat," p. 298.

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At the battle of Nashville the Army of Tennessee lost in killed and woun-
ded about 2500, making the total loss during the Tennessee campaign about
10,000.

According to Colonel Mason's statement, there were, including the fur-
loughed men, about 18,600 men, effectives, of the infantry and artillery at Tupelo
after General Hood's retreat from Nashville. Before the advance of the army
into Tennessee on the 6th of November, 1864, the effective strength was 30,600.
inclusive of the cavalry.

Thus we find at Tupelo, 18,500 infantry and artillery, and 2306 Forrest's
Cavalry, to which add 10,000 lost from all causes, and the total sum amounts to
30,806 effectives. General Hood thus estimates his loss in the Tennessee cam-
paign to have been in excess of 10,000.

Of the once proud Army of Tennessee, less than twenty thousand foot-
sore, shoeless, ragged soldiers escaped with Hood's advance into Tennessee; at
the same time a large army (in numbers at least) of sick, wounded and conval-
escents crowded the general hospitals in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

The life of the Confederacy was bound up in its armies, and when these
armies were scattered in the field and their means of substenance and transpor-
tation destroyed, all hope of final success perished. With the Southern Con-
federacy, the problem was one of endurance and resources; and no Confederate
General appears to have comprehended this truth more thoroughly than Joseph
E. Johnston. In his masterly. retreat from Dalton to Atlanta, he opposed suc-
cessfully less than fifty thousand Confederate troops against General Sherman's
powerful, thoroughly armed and equipped army of more than one hundred thou-
sand brave, stalwart Western soldiers. In his slow retreat, General Johnston
was ever ready to give battle, and whilst inflicting greater losses uuon his great
adversary than his own forces sustained, he, nevertheless, during this incessant
fighting maintained the morale, discipline, valor and thorough organization and
armament of his soldiers.

The chief executive of the Southern Confederacy, with all his lofty patri-
otism and burning ardor for the defense of his bleeding country, placed too
high an estimate upon his own individual military genius, and failed to grasp in
all its bearings the problem of tbe terrible death struggle of the young nation.

General Hood combined with unbounded energy and dauntless courage
and glowing patriotism a fiery ambition for military glory which led him to
overestimate his own military genius and resources and at the same time to
underestimate the vast resources and military strategy of his antagonist.

When General Hood ceased to confront General Sherman, and opened the
way for his desolating march through the rich plantations of Georgia, the Em-
pire State of the South, the fate of the Confederacy was forever sealed. The
beleaguered Confederacy, torn and bleeding along all her borders, was in no
position to hurl her war-worn, imperfectly clad and poorly armed and provisioned
battalions upon fortified cities.

The effort to destroy forces aggregating in Georgia and Tennessee near two
hundred thousand effectives by a force of less than forty thousand men, which
had cut loose from its base of supplies, exceeded the wildest dream of untamed
military enthusiasm.

Of the gallant soldiers whose blood reddened the waters of the Tennessee
and enriched the hills and valleys of Georgia, Tennessee furnished 70 regiments
of infantry and 12 regiments of cavalry.

If the soldiers furnished by Tennessee to the Federal army be added, it is
only just to say that she alone furuished more than 100,000 men to the American
war of 1861-65, and won afresh the title of the Volunteer State .

Noble Tennessee! The generous and prolific mother of brave soldiers
and of beautiful and intrepid women.

What changes have been wrought in a quarter of a century! The songs
of birds, the sturdy blows of the woodman's axe have supplanted the roar of can-
non and the rattle of musketry; the soil which drank up the blood of Southern

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soldiers bears its precious burden of golden corn and snowy white fleecy cotton,
the laughter of women and prattle of children, and the merry whistle of the
plowman fill the places of the brazen trumpet and the martial music of the fife
and drum, and the hoarse shouts of contending men, and groans of the wounded
and dying; the entrenched camp and ragged village of 1865 has given place to
the thriving city of 50,000 inhabitants, with its workshops, factories, well filled
stores, electric lights and railways, and its universities of science and litera-
ture.

Here in this historic place, the weary invalids of the Northern clime may
rest in the shadows and bathe their fevered brows in the cool breezes of these
grand mountains.

In this brief record of the herioc efforts of the soldiers of the armies of
Mississippi and Tennessee to defend the Southern States from the Northern in-
vaders, we have time but to make a brief allusion to the defence of the Mississ-
ippi river, by the Confederate Government, which was characterized by a long
chain of disasters.

The fall of Forts Henry and Donelson opened the Cumberland and Tenn-
essee rivers to the iron clads of the Federals and convoyed and protected their
armies as they marched into the heart of the Confederacy. The strong fortifica-
tions erected by General Leonidas Polk, at Columbus, Kentucky, were evacuated
by the orders of the commanding Generals, Albert Sidney Johnston and G. T.
Beauregard.

Island No. 10 fell with a loss of 17 killed and 500 prisoners, on the 8th of
April, 1862, and the navigation of the Mississippi river was secured by the Fed-
eral fleet up to the walls of Fort Pillow, above Memphis, Tennessee.

New Orleans, tSe Commercial emporium of the Confederacy, fell after an
inglorious defense (April 18, April 28, 1862), characterized by indecision, incom-
petence and insubordination, with the trifling loss of 185 killed, 197 wounded,
400 prisoners; total Confederate loss, 782.

Wise statemanship dictated that the entire power* and resources of the
Sothern Confederacy should have been concentrated upon the defense of the
mouth of the Mississippi river. The future historian of this war will find in the
fall of Forts Henry, Donelson and of New Orleans, the first and greatest disasters
of the Southern cause from which unnumbered and fatal disasters flowed, and
which ended in the final destruction of the Confederacy.

The evacuation of Fort Pillow was followed by the surrender of Memphis,
Tenn., June 6, 1862, after a loss of 81 killed and wounded, and 100 missing, in-
curred in the resistance offered by the Confederate flotilla consisting of the gun-
boats Van Dorn, Price, Jeff Thompson, Bragg, Lovell, Beauregard, Sumpter and
Little Rebel.

The defense of Vicksburg includes: The battle of Baton Rouge, August 5,
1862, General J. C. Breckenridge; killed 84, wounded 316, missing 78; total Con-
federate loss, 468. Iuka, Miss., September 19 and 20, General Sterling Price;
killed 263, wounded 692, missing 561; total 1516. Corinth, Miss , October 3 and
4, 1862, Generals Van Dorn and Sterling Price; killed 594, wounded 2162, miss-
ing 2102; total 4806. Port Gibson, May 1, 1863. Major-General John S. Bowen,
killed and wounded 1150, missing 500; total 1650. Baker's Creek, May 16, 1863;
Lieutenant-General Pemberton; killed and wounded 2000, missing 1800; total
3800. Big Black River, May 17, 1863, Lieutenant-General Pemberton; killed and
wounded 600, missing 2500; total 3110. Vicksburg, Miss., May 18 to July 4, 1863,
Lieutenant-General J. C. Pemberton; killed, wounded, missing and prisoners
31,277. Port Hudson, La., May 27, to July 9, 1863; killed and wounded 780,
missing and prisoners 6408; total 7188. Jackson, Miss., July 9 to 26, General
Joseph E. Johnston; killed 71, wounded 504, missing 25; total 600.

During the operations in Mississippi and Louisiana on tbe east bank of the
Mississippi river for the defence of Vicksburg, commencing with the battle of
Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862, and ending with the evacuation of Jackson, Missis-
sippi, July 19, 1863, the Confederate army lost in killed, •wounded and prisoners,

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5*1,415 officers and men — an army equal in numbers to the largest ever assembled
upon any battle field of the war under any one Confederate Commander. If we
add to this the losses occuring in the field and general hospitals, from sickness,
discharges, deaths and desertions, the loss sustained by the Confederate forces
in these operations would equal an army of at least 75,000

The heart of the Southern patriot stands still at the recital of these humiliat-
ing details. The Confederate commander, General J. C. Peinberton, was not merely
outnumbered, but he was outgeneraled by his Northern antagonists.

What medical and surgical records have been preserved of this mass of suffer-
ing, disease and death ? "Who has written the medical history of the sufferings of the
brave defenders of Vicksburg?

Fellow Soldiers and Comrades of the Confederate Army and Navy, I accepted
the honor conferred upon me by one of the most illustrious captains of the struggle
for Southern independence, not because it conferred power or pecuniary emolu-
ments, but solely that I might in some manner further the chosen project of my
life. When my native Stale, Georgia, seceded from the Federal union in January;
1861, I placed my sword and my life at her service. Entering as a private of caval-
ry, I served in defense of the sea coast in 1861, and although acting as surgeon to this
branch of the service, I performed all the duties required of a soldier in the field.
Entering the medical service of the Confederate army in 1862, I served as surgeon
up to the date of my surrender in May, 1865. Through the confidence and kind-
ness of Surgeon-General S. P. Moore, C. S. A., I was enabled to inspect the great
armies, camps, hospitals, beleaguered cities and military prisons of the Southern
Confederacy.

The desire of my soul, and the ambition of my entire life, was to preserve, as
far as possible, the medical and surgical records of the Confederate army during
this gigantic struggle.

The defeat of our armies and the destruction of our government only served
to increase my interest and still further to engage all my energies in this great
work, which, under innumerable difficulties, I have steadily prosecuted in Augusta,
Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and up to this happy
moment when I greet the stern but noble faces of the survivors of the Confederate
Army and Navy,

I hold this position, which has neither military fame nor financial resources,
solely for the right which it gives me to issue a last appeal for the preservation of
the Medical and Surgical records of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and
Navy.

A veteran of more than four years' active service in the cause of the Southern
Confederacy, at the end of a quarter of a century issues his last call of honor and
glory to his comrades, which will be found at length in his report to the General
Commanding, which is now presented for the consideration of the survivors of the
Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and Navy. (See preceding report.)

With the researches and records of the speaker taken during the war and
subsequently, he has in his possession ample material for a volume relating to the
Medical and Surgical History of the Confederate Army of not less than 1500 pages,
and it is to be hoped that the survivors will furnish such data as will enable him to
give accurate statements with reference to the labors, names and rank of the medi-
cal officers.

Insignia of the Medical Corps of the Conjederate Army and Navy.

In conclusion, comrades, the speaker would urge the adoption of some badge
or device which should serve to distinguish the survivors of the Medical Corps of
the Southern Confederacy.

The objects of this reunion and of this association are historical, benevolent
and social, and the medal or seal which marks its realization should embody within
a brief circle these sacred and noble sentiments.

The outer circle bearing the words ''■Medical Corps Confederate States of Amer-
ica, Army and Navy, 1861-1865;" expresses the great historic fact, that within the

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137

circle of these four years a nation was born and exhibited to the world its existence,
power and valor, in its well -organized and efficient Army and Navy. Within the
brief space of time, 18<>1-1865, was enacted one of the greatest and bloodiest revolu-
tion of the ages, and a peculiar form of civilization passed forever away.

Upon the silver field and embraced by the outer circle rests a golded cross
with thirteen stars — the Southern cross — the cross of the battle flag of the Southern
Confederacy.

The reverse of the medal bears at the apex of the circle the letters U. C. V.,
and at the line under, the date 1890. The laurel leaf of the outer circle surrounds
the venerated and golden head of the great Southern captain, General Robert E.
Lee, who was the type of all that was heroic, noble and benevolent in the Con-
federate army and navy. Grand in battle and victory, General Lee was equally
grand and noble in defeat; and his farewell address to his soldiers has been the
most powerful utterance for the pacification of the warlike elements of his country
and the rehabilitation of the waste places of the South by the peaceful arts of agri-
culture, manufactures and commerce.

Whilst the Southern armies were wreathed in victory, the thunderbolts of
war, which made wide gaps through their ranks, inflicted irreparable damage.
When the brave soldiers of the South sank to rest upon the besom of their mother
earth, they rose no more; the magnificent hosts which watered the plains, valleys
and mountains with the precious blood were the typical and noble representatives
of their race.

Whilst the North increased in resources and men, as the war went on, the
Southern Confederacy was penetrated and rent along all her borders; her fertile
plains were overrun and desolated, her gallant sons fell before the iron tempest of
war, and her final overthrow and subjugation followed as the night does the day.

Comrades, survivors of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and
Navy, is it not our solemn duty to commemorate the deeds of our comrades who
yielded up their lives in the struggle for Southern independence, on the battlefield,
in the hospital and in the military prison ? Shall we not adopt a simple but im-
perishable medal which may be handed down to our children ?"

Organization of a Medical Relief Corps During the Reunion of the United Confed-
, erate Veterans, at Chattanooga, July 2, j and 4, i8go.

An organization of a "Medical" Relief Corps was proposed by Dr. Jones, as
accidents werej likely to occur amongst the large army of Confederate Veterans
assembled from the surrounding States in Chattanooga, which would require the
prompt aid of the medical profession.

The following physicians were appointed and requested to go on duty and
act as a Medical Relief Corps, at the places designated, during the 3d, 4th and
5th of July, beginning at 8 a. m. each day. They will be relieved hourly, and
take their turns in the order named:

At L. J. Sharp & Co.'. Drs. E. A. Cobleigb, J. L. Gaston, G. M. Ellis, J. F. Sheppard, W P
Creig, E. E, fCerr, W. B, ^ee, Frederick 8- Stapp, I. S. Dunham, P, E, Nelsop, C. S. Wright, R. F.
WaHaee, ,■..... •..••

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Snodgrass Hill: W. T. Hope, J. L. Atlee, Vaulx Gibbs, C. F. McGahan, W. B. Wells, A. M.
Boyd J J. McConnell, W. C. Towues, Cooper Holtzclaw, A. P. Van Deveer, T. C. V. Barkely.

'Court House: L. Y. Green, J. E. Reeves, G. A. A. Baxter, H. L. McReynolds, H. B. Wilson, F.
M. Leverson. B. 8. Wert, W. B. Bogart, E. B. Wise, H. Berlin, Y. J. Abernathy, J. R. Rathwell.
Joseph Jones, Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans.
G. W. Drake, Medical Director.
P. D. Sims, Chief of Staff.
L. H. Wilson, Register.

All visitin,' physicians and surgeons of the C. S. A. and C. S. K. are requested to register at
L. H. Wilsonls drug store, 829 Market street.

After the Committee was appointed, Dr. Jones read his report to Gen. John B. Gordon, Com-
mander United Confederate Veterans.

Dr. 3. E. Reeves delive ed a short address, in which he complimented Dr. Joness very highly
on the manner and thoroughness of his report, and in conclusion offered a motion to appoint a
committee to draft suitable resolutions in regard to Dr. Jones' report. The following gentlemen
composed the committee: Drs. Drake, Holtzclaw, Hope, Reeves and Howard.

A recess of a few minutes allowed the Committee time to retire and draft resolutions. The
following are the resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, We have been honored by the presence of Dr. Joseph Jones, Surgeon-General of the
United Confederate Veterans; and

Whereas, We have heard his able report to the illustrious Gen. John B. Gordon, Commanding
General of the United Confederate Veterans, whose presence will also grace this reunion occasion;
therefore,

Resolved, That we, surviving members of the Medical Corps of the Confederate Army and
Navy, and the medical profession- tender to Dr. Jones our gratitude for his very able presentation
of the objects to be gained by the assembing of the survivors of the Medical Corps of the Confed-
erate Army and Navy.

Resolved, That he has placed the whole medical profession of the United States under obliga-
tions for his self-sacrificing labors in raising from oblivion the priceless statistics relating to the
medical history of the i onfederate Army and Navy.

Resolved, That we bespeak the earnest co-operation of the surviving surgeons of the Confed-
erate Army and Navy in his efforts to procure the imperishable Roster his unselfish labors have so
auspiciously begun.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the press for publication.
The following insignia, prepared and presented in silver and gold by Surgeon-General Joseph
Jones, well be adopted and worn by the surviving members of the Medical Corps of United Confed-
erate Veterans; Silver disk, one inch in diameter, containing a gold cross, on whic hare thirteen
stars on face inside edge, "Medical Corps C. S. A. and C. S. N., 1861-65." On reverse— "United
Confederate Veterans, 1890." Name and rank of officer on both faces.
After a short discussion, the meeting abjoiirned.

The following chairmen of committees will look after the visiting physicians from the StateB
which they represent:

Alabama— B. S. West, 714 Market street.
Arkansas— G. A. Baxter, 115 East Eighth street.
Florida— F. T. Smith, 10 West Ninth street.
Kentucky — L. Y. Green, Lookout Mountain.
Louisiana— W. L. Gahagan, 10 West Ninth street.
Maryland— E. A. Cobleigh, 729 Chestnut street.
Mississippi— N. C. Steele, 722 East Seventh street.
Missouri— H. L. McReynolds, 638 Market street.
North Carolina— T. G. Magee, 518 G orgia avenue.
South < arolina— C. F. McGahan, Richardson block.
Tei.nessee— P. D. Sims, 713 Georgia avenue.
Texas — E. B. Wise, Georgia avenue.
Virginia— G. W. Drake, 320 Walnut street.
West Virginia— J. E. Reeves, 20 McCallie avenue,
New England States— E. M. Eaton, 20 East Eighth street.
Middle States— F. M. Severson, 826 Market street.
Western States— J. J. Durand, 208 Pine street.
Northwestern States— E. F. Kerr, 709 Market street.
Canada— G. M. Ellis, 826 Mark6t street.

Foreign Countries— H. Berlin, GOO Market street. «»*••.««

W. DRAKE, M. D.,

Medical Diriclor.

The Medical Faculty of Chattanooga, under the able leadership of the
Medical Director, Dr. G. W. Drake, were untiring in their kind attentions and
general hospitality to the survivors of the Medical Corps of the United Confed-
erate Veterans.

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Official Correspondence, 1890.92, of Joseph Jones, M. D.,
Surgeon- General U. C. V., with references to the forces
and losses of the individual Southern States during- the
War 1861-65: and with reference to the number and
condition of the surviving: Confederate Soldiers who were
disabled by the wounds and diseases received In the de-
fense of the rights and liberties of the Southern States.

Office of Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans,)
156 Washington Avenue, [-

New Orleans, La., February, 1892.)
John B. Gordon, General Commanding United Confederate Veterans :

General— I have the honor herewith to submit the results of an extended
correspondence with the Executives of the Southern States which were formerly
united under the Confederate Government.

This correspondence presents many facts of interest to the United Confederate
Veterans.

Immediately after the acceptance of the honorary position of Surgeon-Gen-
eral of the United Confederate Veterans, the author instituted extended inquiries with
the design of determining :

1. The number of troops furnished by the Southern States during the civil
war 1861-1865.

•2. The number of killed and wounded, and the deaths caused by disease.

3. An accurate statement of the moneys appropriated by the innividual
States for the relief of disabled and indigent Confederate soldiers from the close of
the war in 1865 to the time of this correspondence in 1892.

4. The names, rank and services of the medical officers of the Confederate
army and navy.

The nature, and, to a certain extent, the results of these labors. will be illus-
trated by the following facts and correspondence:

STATE OF ALABAMA.

Official communications were addressed to the Governor of Alabama in 1890 and 1891 by the
Surgeon General United Confederate Veterans, but up to the present date, February, 1892, no reply
has been received.

STATE OF ARKANSAS.

Executive Office, Little Rock, June 24, 1890.

Prof. Joseph Jones, M. D„ New Orleans, La. — Dear Sir: Yours of some time since received,
and answer held with view of securing at least some of the information sought, but my time has
been so occupied with official duties that I have been unable to get information. Besides this there
are no records, official, in any of the State departments from which such information can be had,
hence I can not comply witn your request.

We are maaing an effort to organize the Ex-Confederates in this State, and hope to succeed.
We have raised a lu-d and wUl soon have a home at our capital, so as to be able to support such
as are not able to support themselves. Very truly yours, JAMES P. EAGLE.

STATE OF FLORIDA.

Tallahassee, May 19, 1890.
Dr. Joseph Jones, Surgeon General United Confederate Veterans :

Sir : Replying to yours of the 9th ultimo to the Governor, I have the honor to report aa
follows, in reply to your queries :

1. Number of troops furnished to the Confederate States Army from Florida about 15,000.

2. Number of killed ? I have no record showing and no means of estimating.

3. Number of wounded ? I have no record showing and no means of estimating.

4. Number of deaths from wounds and disease 1 No record, etc.

5. Number of survivors ? No meaus of estimating. <

6. Amount appropr ated for survivors to the present time ? $120,934.

7. Name, etc., of hospitals and other institutions for the care of the survivors "> None,

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8, Detailed statement of moneys expended for the relief of the survivors, maimed and dis-
abled ?

During the year 1885 there was expended in pensions, $1,777.50.

During the year 1886 there was expended in pensions, $7,653.80.

During the year 1887 there was expended in pensions, $9,368.83.

During the year 1888 there was expended iu pensions, $32,647.76.

During the year 1889 there was expended in pensions, $34,486.38.

For the year 1890 there has been appropriated $35,000.00.

In the year 1885 there were 58 pensioners receiving pensions at the rate of $5.00 per month.

Iu the year 1886 there were 100 pensioners at the same rate.

In the year 1887 the rate was increased to $8.00 per month, and the restriction that the pension
must be necessary to support and maintenance was removed. Under this law the number of pen-
sions for the year 1887 increased to 167, and by December, 1888, to 318, which number had increased
July 1, 1889, when the law was aga u changed, to 384. The present law grades the pensions accord-
ing to the disability and restricts it to those who are in need and unable to earn a livelihood. Under
this law the pension roll has been reduced to 218.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. LANG, Adjutant General.

Tallahassee, August "29, 1891.

Dr. Joseph Jones Surgn. Gen. United Con fed. Vet.:

Sin: Replying to yours of the 17th inst., to the Governor, I can only make a repetition of
my former letter of May 19, 1890, to you on the same subject, to wit :

1. The number of troops furnished the Confederate States, from Florida, was about 15,000
comprising eleven regiments, and several independent corps of infantry, two regiments of cavalry,
and six batteries of artillery. There are no records of these organizations extant, except an abstract
of the muster rolls of the first eight regiments of infantry, and the two cavalry regiments, with the
several independent companies, subsequently for.ning the other three regiments of infantry.

2. There is absolutely nothing to show the number of killed, wounded, or died of disease.

3. There is no roster of the medical stiff, but from personal recollection the writer can give
the following uam>s:

Dr. Thomas M. Palmer, surgeon second Florida regiment, from May — . 1861. till August — ,
1862. when Florida hospital was organized, and he made chief surgeon at Kichmond, Va. Present ad-
diess, Monticello. Fla..

Dr. Carey Gamble, surgeon of the first regiment, from April 3, 1861, and afterwards, of the
Florida brigade, in the Army of Tennessee; now resides in Baltimore.

Dr. J. D. Godfrey, surgeon fifth regiment, April, 1862; now resides at Jasper, Fla.

Dr. Thomas P. Gary, surgeon seventh Florida regiment. Died at Ocala, Fla,, 1891.

Dr. Richard P. Daniel, surgeon eighth regiment, May, 1862, till April 9th, 1865: now resides
in Jacksonville, Fla.

Dr. Hooper, assistant surgeon eighth regiment; killed at Fredericksburg, Va., in line of

duty, December 12, 1863.

Dr. Theophilus West, assistant surgeon eighth regiment, from December 12, 1863, till April 9,
1865; address Mnrianna, Fla.

Dr. R. W. B. Hargis, surgeon first regiment: address, Pensacola, Fla.

Dr. J. H. Randolph, surgeon Department of Florida; present address. Tallahassee, Fla.

Dr. G. E. Hawes, surgeon second regiment; present address, Palatka, Fla.

4. Acts passed by Florida Legislature, for aid of Confederate Soldiers, see enclosed copies of
same.

5. There are no Soldiers' Homes, Hospitals, or other places of refuge for old soldiers in
Florida.

6. Have not complete records, and cannot furnish copies of such as there are, not being in
print. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. LANG, Adjt. Gen. of Florida.

Chapter 3861, No. 15.

AN ACT to provide an Annuity for Disabled Soldiers aud Sailors of the State of Florida

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida :

Section 1. That any peron who enlisted in the military or naval service of the Confederate
States, or of tais State, during the civil war between the States of the United St tes, who was a citi-
zen of this State, at the time of enlistment, or who was a bona fide c tizen of this State on January
1. 1875, who lost a limb or limbs while engaged in said m litary or naval service, occa-
sioned by reason of such military or naval service, or who may ihus have received
wounds or injuries which afterwards caused the loss »Of a limb or 1 mus, or who may-
have been permanently injured by wounds or d sease contracted while in said service, and who
may be a bona fide citizen of this State at the lime o making applicaiion for the benefits herein
provided for, shall bo entitled to leceive per a num, iu quarterly payment-, the followiu'j allow-
ance, « r pay, to-wit: For total loss of feight. one hundred ai_d fit y dollars; for t tal loss of one eye,
thirty dollars; for b t 1 loss of h aring, thirty dollars; lor 1 ss t>f a foot or loss of a leg, one hun-
dred dollars; for loss of all of a h nd or loss of [an] aim, one huidred dollars; for loss of both
hands or both arms, oi e hundied and titty dollais ; for loss of both feet or both
legs, one hundred aDd fifty dollars; for loss cf'one hand or foot and one nm <r leg by
sa me person, one hundred a* d fifty d' lb r- ; lor pei manent injuries from wound6 whereby a leg Is
repealed substantially ULd cssent ally useless, nueiy d'.U-is; lor pern auept injuries from vpouLdet

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wherebv an arm is rendered substantially and essentially useless, ninety dollars; for other perma-
nent injuries from wounds or diseases contracted durins the service and while in line of duty as
a soldier (or sailor) whereby the person injured or diseased has been rendered practically incom-
petent to perform ordinary manu-1 av cations of life, ninety-six dollars. The benefits of this section
shall inure to the widow of any soldier or sailor win was receiving a pension under tbe provisions
of this act at the time of his death, which pension shall continue during such widowhood.

Sec. 2. That before any person shall be entitl d to any of the benefits of this act, he shall
make oath before some person authorized to adniii ist.er oaths, stating in what company, regiment
and brigade he w s servi-g when the loss w >s sustained or i' jury received, a' d when it was l^st or
received, or when and where he contracted the disease which cau=ed the ampuration or loss of his
limb or limbs, or produced the permanent disabilitv claimed to ex st.

Sec. 4. Th° widow of anv soldier or sailor killed, or who shall have since died of wounds
received while in the line of duty durin the civil war between the States, who h"8 since remained
. unmarried, sh >11 receive a pension of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum during such widow-
hood. Proof of such death and continued widowhood shall be made as in other cases herein
provided.

Sec. 5. That the benefits of this act shall accrue to the Florida State Troops who may be
disabled in line of duty when called into service by the authorities of this State.

Sec. 7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved June 8, 1889.

STATE OF GEORGIA.
We extract the following from the "Report of Madison Bell, Comptroller-
General of the State of Georgia, covering the period from August 11, 1868, to
January 1, 1869, submitted to His Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock, the Governor
January 12, 1869:"

Maimed Soldiers.

By section 28, appropriation act of March, 1886, the sum of $20,000 was appropriated to furnish
artificial limbs to indigent maim°d soldiers; and by section 27 of the appropriation act of December,
1386, the further sum of $30,000 w s appropriat d for the same purpose. By reference to the books
kept by my predecessors, I find that the first-named sum has been aboutexhau'ted, and that some-
thing over $12,000 of the second appropriation has been dr wn. By a resolution of the General
Assemby, maimed soldie'8, under certain circumst^m es, were allowed to draw from the treasury
thevalueof an artifi ial limbin cases wher^ the stump was so sh'rt that such limb cou'd not be
fitted to it, and several applications of this kind have been presented to me since being in charge of
the Comptroller's office, and I have been somewhat perplexed in determining what was the proper
course to pursue. Although the appropriation has not been exhausted, «nd this unfortunate cl"ss of
our fellow citizens has commanded ray deepest sympathv, yet I have, from a stern sense of official
duty, persistently refused to approve any of these claims.

Augusta, Georgia, May 15, 1890.

My Dear Brother— I am this morning in receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, and I regret
it is not in my power to furnish accurate answers to your leading inquiries. General Marcus J.
Wright, of the War Record Office, War Department, Washington, D. 0., will, in my judgment be best
qualified t < impart the desired inf rmation. AH the captured Confederate records are accessible
to him. He is much interested in all matters pertaining to Confederate affairs, having been a brig-
adier general in C -nfederate service, and can, without doubt, turn at once to documents on file in
the department which will satisfy your inquiries. I believe he will deem it a pleasure to respond,
as fully as his leisure will permit, to your inqui- ies.

I enclose a opy of the ate.-t act passed by the Legislature of Georgia providing for the relief
of disabled Confederate soldiers. The provision is not as ample as it should be, but it is better than
nothing, and ministers mea urably to the cemfort of those who are entitled to every consideration.

By public benefaction Georgia has established no hospital or home for the shelter of her dis-
abled Confederate soldiers, but such an institution is now being builded near Atlanta wi'h funds
privately contributed by patrio'ic citizens of tbe State. When that institution is fairly under way, it
is hoped that the General Assembly may be induced to receive it as a public institution, to recognize
it as a necessary charity and lo make provision for its proper sustentation.

Your affecti' n-te brother, CHARLES C. JONES, Jr.

Prof. Joseph Jones, M. D., P. O. Bok 1600, New Or'eans, La.

Appropriating Allowances for Maimed Confederate Soldiers.

No. 48.
An Act to amend an act, approved October 24, 1887. entit'ed "An act to carry into effect the last
clause of article 7, section 1, paragraph 1, of the Constitution of 1877 and the amendments
thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the act approved
October 24, 18*7, entitled "An act to carry into effect the last clause of article 7, section 1. paragraph
1, of the Constitution of 1877, as amended by vote of the people October, 1886," be. and the same is
hereby, amended by striking therefrom the first section of said act, and inserting in lieu thereof the
following, to-wit: "That any person who enlisted in the military service of the Confederate States,
Qi' of. this State, during tjie civil war between the States of the United States, who was a uowfdg

142 Report of Surgeon- General

citizen of this State on the 2fith day of October, 1886, who lost a limb or limbs while engaged in said
m.litary service, occa ioned by reason of such military service, or who may have thus received
wounds or injuries which afterward caused the loss of a limb or limbs," or who may hve been
permanently injured while|in said service, and who may be Abonafide citizen of this State at the time
of making application f"r the benefits herein provided for, shall be entiiled to receive once a year,
the following allowances or pay for the purposes expressed in article 7, section 1, paragraph 1 (and
the amendment thereto), < f the Constitution of 1877, to-wit:

For total loss of sight, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For total loss of sight of one eye, thirty dollars.

For total loss of hearing, thirty doll rs.

For loss of all of a f ot or loss of leg, one hundred dollars.

For loss of all of a hand or li s- of arm, one hundred dollars.

For loss of both hands or both aims, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For loss of both feet or both legs, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For the loss of one hand or foot, and one arm or leg by same person, one hundred and
fifty doll. rs.

For permanent injuries from wounds whereby a leg is rendered substantially and essentially
useless, fifty dollars.

For permanent injuries from wounds, whereby an arm is rendered substantially and essen-
tially useless, fifty dollars.

For the loss ot one finger or one toe, five dollars.

For the loss of two fingers or two toes, ten dollars.

For the loss of ihiee fingers or three toes, fifteen dollars.

For the loss of four fingers or four toes, twenty dollars.

For the loss of four fingers and thumb, or five toes, twenty-five dollars.

For other permane t injury from wounds and disease, contracted during the service, and
while in line of duty as a soldier, whereby ihe person injured or diseased has been rendered practi-
cally incompetent to perform the ordinary manual avoc tions of lite, fifty dollars.

The applicant shall also procure the sworn statements of two reputable physicians of his own
county, showing precisely how he has been wounded and the extent of this disability resulting
lrom the wound or injury or disease described. All of said affidavits shall be certified to be genu-
ine by the Ordinary of the county where made, and he shall in his certificate state that all the wit-
nesses who testify to applicants' proofs are persons of respectability and good reputation, and that
their statements are worthy of belief, and also that the attesting officer or officers are duly author-
ized to attest said proofs and that their signatures theroto are genuine.

Sec. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said act, b°> further amended hy
addin/: That the beneficiaries uuder the Acts of 1879 and the acts amendatory thereof, grant ng
allowances to ex-Confederate soldiers who lost a limb or limbs in the service, "shall be entitled to
the benefits of this act, at the time the next payments are made to other disabled beneficiaries under
the Act of 1887. And the sum necessary to maUe the payments provided by this act is hereby ap-
propriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. V. Be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in con-
flict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved December 24, 1888.

Atlanta, Ga., April 14, 1890.

Jos. Jones, M. D., Surgeon-General, d-c— Dear Sir: As early as possible the information yon
ask for will be obtained and forwarded. Respectfully, your obedient servant,

CLEMENT A. EVANS.
Executive Department, Atlanta, Ga., August 27, 1891.

Dr. Joseph Jones, M. D. Surgeon-General Confederate Veterans, 156 Washington Ave., New Orleans,
La. — Dear Sir: Your letter making inquiry about Confederate veterans has been received. It will
be referred to the Adjutant General of the State, Captain Kell, with the request that he reply to it
as soon as possible. Very truly, etc.,

W. J. NORTHEN, Governor.

Adjutant-General's Office, Atlanta, Ga., August 27, 1891.

Prof. Joseph Jones, M. D., Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans, No. 156 Washington Avenue,
New Orleans, La.*

Dear Sir: Your communication of the 17th inst., headed offical business, addressed to His
Excellency, W. J. Northen, Governor of Georgia, has been placed upon my desk. I at once called
upon the Governor, and informed him that while much of the information desired in your commu*
nication might be obtained by careful research, there was no clerical help in my office, and it was
just impossible for me to furnish it. The Governor desires me to communicate to you the above
information. Regretting that he can not furnish you with the information requested,^
With sincere regard, your obedient servant,

JOHN McINTOSH KELL, Adjutant Inspector General.

STATE OF KENTUCKY.

Executive Department, Frankfort, April 14, 1891.

Dr. Joseph Jones, New Orleans. La.— Dear Sir: In answer to yours of the 9th inst., as to
records of Confederate soldiers of Kentucky, allow me to refer yon to Gen, Marcus J. Wright, Wash,

United Confederate Veterans. 143

ington, D. C. He has in charge the war papers of the Confederacy, and he, if anybody, can give you
the desired information. Respectfully,

ED. PORTER THOMPSON.

Private Secretary to Governor.

P. S. — I can, however, answer as to the 6th, 7th and 8th. T$ft provision whatever is made by
the State for her Confederate soldiers. E. P. T.

STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Baton Rouge, La., March 12, 1890.

Dr. Joseph Jones, New Orleans, La.— My Dear Doctor: Being desirous of obtaining the in-
formation which you are seeking and which you have requested me to obtain for you, I believe i
have obtained the desired information from my last report as Secretary of State, from page 107 to
page 133 inclusive. I have, this day, mailed a copy to you.

I hav also obtained from the Adjutant General's office his last report which contains the ap-
propriations made by the legislature for wounded and disabled soldiers, as well to soldiers' home. I
have also this day mailed a copy to you

I have also obtained from the Register of the State land office that 103 wounded and disabled
soldiers have obt ined land warrants under the provisions of Act No. 96, of 1884, and have actually
located each 160 acres of land. The widows of Confederate soldiers who are in indigent circum-
stances are also entitled the benefits of said act.

There are ilso, up to date, 664 Confederate soldiers who have obtained land warrants under
Act No. 116 of 1886, entitling them to 160 acres of land. I would refer you particularly to the pro-
visions of the last act. You can obtain a copy from the State Library.

In relatian to the names of surgeons who served in the Confederate army. I have been informed
that so ar as the Army of Northern Virginia, you can have the names of the officers at New Orleans.
There has been no record kept of the Army of Tennessee, unless Col. A. J. Lewis can inform you.
I am, very truly, your ob'dt serv't and friend,

OSCAR AROYO.

From the valuable "Roster of the Louisiana Troops Mustered into the
Provisional Army Confederate States," prepared by Col. Oscar Aroyo, Secre-
tary of State.

The total original enlistments were:

louisiana troops mustered into the provisional confederate states

Army.

Total original enrolment of infantry 36,243

Total original enrolment of artillery 4,024

Total original enrolment of cavalry 10,056

Total original enrolment of sappers and miners 276

Total original enrolment of engineers 212

Total original enrolment of signil corps. . . 76

Total original enrolment of New Orleans State Guard 4,933

Grand Total 55,820

Report of the Adjutant General of Louisiana.
Artificial Limbs.

Act 69, approved April 6, 1880, provides substantial artificial limbs for the citizens of this State
who lost a limb or limbs in the military service of the Confederate States, and the adjutant
general is furnished with an official list of those en'itled to the benefits of this act, which list serves
them as a guide as to the number and kind of artificial limbs to be supplied by the State.

Section 5 of that Act provides for the payment of the pro rata proportion of the appropriation
of $12,000 for the year 1880, an ' of $8000 for the year 1881; in case the beneficiaries take oath before
the clerk of the district court of their parish, stating in their affidavits that they do not believe that
the style of artificial limb contracted for by the adjutant general would be of any practical use to
them: in that case the adjutant general fs instructed to approve and indorse on the affidavits the
contract price of the artificial limb to which the beneficiaries would be entitled under this act, which
affidavits, so indorsed and approved, shall be the voucher of the auditor of public accounts for his
warrant on the State treasurer in favor of the beneficiary.

By a later resolution of the House of Representatives, under date of April 15, 18S0, the adju-
tant general is authorized and empowered to supplement the list of disabled soldiers, adopted and
forwarded to him by the house, by the addition of the names of those at this time citizens of the
State, who may forward or carry to him an affidavit made before the clerk of their parish that they
lost a limb or limbs in the service of the Confederate States, approved by either of their Bcpresenta-
tives or Senators, or by the addition of names of persons forwarded to him by eithsr the Louisiana
Diyisipn of Army of Northern Virginia, or Louisiana, Divisiori of Arpay of Tenpessc e.

144 Report of Surgeon- General

Under this act 69, and under the resolution of the honse referred to, the following artificial
limbs are accounted for:

Appropriation for 1880 $12,000 00

Appropriation for 1881 8,000 00

Act 72, approved July 1, 1882, directs that the unexpended balances appropriated by Act No.

69 of 1880, be transferred to and appropriated out of the general f»nd of 1882 and 18b3, to be paid out

according to provisions and regulations of Act 69 of 1880.

For artificial limbs in 1882 $1,300 00

For repairs of same in 1882 1,000 00

For artificial limbs in 1883 1,300 00

For repairs of same in 1883 1,071 77

Under Act 72, the following artificial limbs and repairs to same have been furnished upon
proper affidavits on file in this office:

Appropriation for 1882 $2,300 00

Appropriation for 1883 2,371 77

Act 46, approved July 5, 1884, appropriated eight ^thousand dollars ($8000) out of the General
Fund of 1884, and eight thousand dollars ($8000) out of the General Fund of 1885, or so much there-
of as may be necess'ary to supply and keep supplied with substantial artificial limbs the citizens of
this State who lost a limb or limbs in the military service of the Confederate States.

Section 2 ot this act provides that the list of those entitled to the benefits of the act now on
file in the Adjutant General's office of thi* State, which may be amended by the Adjutant General by
adding the names of other soldiers upon proper proof furnished him, or by striking off tbe names
of those who have died, or who may hereafter die, shall be his guide as to the number and kinds of
artificial limbs to be supplied by the State.

Section 3 of the same act authorizes the Adjutant General of the State, with the Governor's
approval, to contract lor the manufacture of the artificial !imbs required.

The remaining sections of Act 46 provides that the affidavits or certificates for relief, under
this bill, be countersigned by the proper officer of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia
or the Association of the Army of Tennessee. That those who received artificial limbs or the value
of the same in warrants from the State in 1880, are entitled to the benefits of this act in 1884, and
those who were supplied in 1881 to the benefits ot this act in 1885. That all warrants issued under
the same act are made receivable for any licenses or taxes due and payable to the General Fund for
the year in which they are issued.

Appropriation for 1884 '. $8,000 00

Appropriation for 1885 8,000 00

Act 115, approved July 8, 1886, directs that the unexpended balances, amounting to thirty-
seven hundred and sixty-three dollars ($3763), be transferred to and re-appropriated out of the Gen-
eral Fund of 1886, 1887 and 1888, to be paid out according to provisions and regulations of Act 46, as
follows:

For artificial limbs and repairs of same in 1886 $1,500 00

For artificial limbs and repairs of same in 1887 1,500 00

For artificial limbs and repairs of same in 1888 763 00

$3,763 00

Appropriation for 1886 $1,500 00

Appropriation for 1887 1,500 00

Act 32, approved June 29, 1888, directs that the unexpended balances, amounting to eight
hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety-oue cents ($845.91), appropriated by Act 115, Acts of 1886,
be transferred to and appropriated out of the General Fund of 188H, to supply the citizens of this Slate
who lost a lim ■ or limbs in the military service of the Confederate States, with substantial artificial
limbs, and those whose disabilities are such, through wounds, surgical operatfons or injuries received
in the line of duty as soldiers in the serviee of the Confederate States, that an artificial limb would
be of no practical use, may have the benefit of the pro rata share of this appropriation, as herein-
after provided.

For the loss of the use of a leg, eighty dollars ($80); for the loss of the use of an arm, sixty-
five dollars ($65); for the loss of the sight of an eye, sixty five dollars ($65); for the loss of hearing in
one ear, tweutv dollars ($20); for the loss of the voice, eighty dollars ($80); for the paralysis of any
por ion of the body, causing disability, sixty-five dollars ($65). All such cases of disability to be
established by the certificate of two medical practitioners of good standing in tbe parish or district
where thebenefic ary resides; all applications for reliet to be approved by the proper officer of the
Association of tUe Army of Northern Virg nia, or the Army of Tennessee ; that all warrants issued
under Act 32 are made receivable for any licenses or taxes due and payable to the Generel Fund ot[
the year in which they are issued.

Appropriation for 1888 * $845 91

Act 50, approved July 10, 1888, appropriates six thousand dollars ($6000) out of the General
Fund lor the yearlH&V, and nine thousand dollars ($9000) out of the General Fund of 1883 to supplyand
keep supplied with substantial artificial liuibs the citizens of this Slate who lost a limb or limbs in the
militarv service of the Confederate States, under provisions similar to those expressed in Act 69 of
1880 and Act 46 of 1884.' l

Appropriation for 1888,,,, .,.,.,,....,.,.,,,,,.,,,.,..............,,.... ....$6,000 00

United Confederate Veterans. 1 45

The artificial limbs manufactured and furnished by Mr. A. McDermott, of New Oi leans, under
Acts 69 and 72, for the years 1880, 1881, 1882 aud 18«3, also under A ts 36 and llf<, lor the years 1884,
1885, 1886 and 1887 having proved sati-factory in every respect, the contract for artificial limbs re-
quired by the State of Louisiana to supply its citizens was, for the fifth time, awarded him, under
Act 50, for tha years 1888 and 1889.

The prices specified in the contract are as follows:

Artificial legs $80 00

Repairs to an artificial leg 25 00

Artificial arms 65 00

Repairs to an artificial arm 15 00

All estimated for cash or its equivalent in warrants.

The fluctuations in these warrants for the past nine years have been from 60 to 90 cents.

Soldiers' Home.

The General Assembly has made the following appropriations for founding and maintaining
the "Louisiana Soldiers' Home," established in 1883, on Baym St. John, near the bridge at the ma
of* Esplanade street. New Orleans:

Out of the revenues of 1883 $ 2,500 00

Out ot the revenues of 1884 2,500 00

For the year ending June 30, 1885 10 000 00

For the year ending June 30, 1886 10,000 00

For the year ending June 30, 1887 7,500 00

For the year ending June 30, 1888 7,500 00

For the year ending June 30, 1889 7,500 00

For the year ending June 30, 1890 7,500 00

$55,000 00
To the above amount in State warrants may be added sev. n thousand dollars ($7000) in cash,
received from the two divisions of Louisiana Confederate Veterans ot the Army of Northern Virginia
and Army of Tennessee, being the amount realized from the two days' sham battles and entetain-
ments given at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans, September, 1883.

The Soldinrs' Home now affords comfortable quarters, clothing and subsistence to fifty-one
Confederate veterans, all disabled from injuries, wounds or loss of limbs in line of duty.

To fully develop and carry out the purposes intended, and to establish on a fi in basis the
"Louisiana Soldiers' Home," in which all classes are interested.it is hoped that the General Assem-
bly will continue the appropriations on a more liberal scale, for the extension and maintenance of
this humane and deserving institution.

STATE OF MARYLAND.

Respectfully returned, and attention invited to remarks of General Johnson. No organization
of Confederate troops were furnished by the State, which was subjugated by the Untted States; but
many thousands of her citizens went to the aid of the Confederate States, and served in most of
them in their commands to the close of the civil war, (?)

Question No. 4. None.

Question No. 5. By act of the Legislature a piece of property known as Pikesville Arsenal has
been donated for a Confederate Home, and now shelters some fifty or more veterans.

J. HOWARD, Adjutant-General.

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

Official inquiries were addressed to the Governor of Mississippi in 1890 and
1891.

No replies have been received to the respectful inquiries of the Surgeon-
General United Confederate Veterans, and in the absence of all information
from Mississippi, we present with pleasure for the consideration of th« United
Confederate Veterans, the following valuable communication from General Allen
Thomas, who served with distiuguished gallantry at the siege of Vicksburg:

Runnymede, October 21, 1891.
Dt . Josei>/f yones, Surgeon- General United Confederate Veterans:

31y Dear Doctor— Your favor of September, after some delay intruding me, was received.
I have been trying to refresh my memory with reference to your inquiries, but it has been so much
weakened by time and trouble that I find that I am not able to give you definitely the information
you desire.

To yonr first inquiry: "Names of the medical officers in charge of the Confederate sick and
wounded during the siege of Vicksburg, name also of Medical Director ?"—

I would say, that Dr. Winn, of Holmesville, Avoyelles Parish was my Regimental Surgeon.
Dr. Pierce was his assistant. Dr. Raoul Percy was also on duty, as was Dr. Walker, in charge of
the First Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Fuller's command). As well as I recollect, Dr. Balfour was
Medical Director, and Dr. Burchel, if I mistake not, was in charge of the hospital for the sick and
wounded. Of course there were many other members of the medical profession who participated in
the siege, out I do not recollect their names.

146 Report of Surgeon-General

2. Number of Confederates killed and wounded during the seige of Vicksburg.

Ans. I do not know the exact number, but I can approximate. I understood at headquarters
at the commencement of the siege, that we had 17,000 men of all arms of the service; there were
about 11,000 paroled. Some time before the surrender, Gen. Pemberton called his General officers
together to ascertain if it were possibl • to cut our way out. This was found to be utterty im jracti-
cable. There were but 11,000 men of all arms of the service fit tor duty. And these were not in a
condition to sustain continued exertions. We had no horses for either cavalry or artillery. Of
course I cannot say positively the number of men paroled, but I heard it frequently stated that it
was 11,000, leaving 6000 unaccounted for. Iu my opinion the great majority of these were killed or
wounded.

3. Number of Conf.derate troops (officers and men sick and wounded) surrendered at
Vicksburg ?

Ans. About 11,000 (eleven thousand).

4. What was the condition, physical and moral, of the Confederate troops at time of surren-
der; could the struggle have been protracted much longer?

Ans, The Confederate troops suffered greatly for want of proper provisions, for some time
before the end of the siege. A small cup of commeal or rice was a day's rations, and the men,
from 48 days' service in the open trenches, exposed to torrid sun and all weather, unable to move
from their positions, without being exposed to a storm of shot and shell, were necessarily much
worn and emaciated; so apparent was this, th .t when I marched my brigade by a group of Federal
officers, one of them exclaimed in my heering, "Great God, can it be possible that these men held
us in check for so long a time." The morale of the men was excellent. They could not have been
driven ; they might have been overwhelmed, but had no thought, so far as I could observe, of retreat
or surrender. It would have been impossible for them to have continued the struggle much longer,
as it was beyond the endurance of human nature.

5. Are there any authentic accounts of the siege of Vicksburg extant?

Ans. None that I know of. The late Jefferson Davis once asked me to write a history of the
siege. I contemplated doing so, but was told that Col. McCardle, of General Pemberton's staff,
was abont to publish such a work, which induced me to abandon it. Regretting that I am unable to
give you more accurate dates.

I am, with the highest esteem, most truly yours,

ALLEN THOMAS.

STATE OF MISSOURI.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 1
City of Jefferson, April 14, 1890. J

Joseph Jones, M. D., Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans, ij6 Washington

Avenue, New Orleans, La.

Dear Sir— I am in receipt of yours of the 9th instant, requesting me to furnish your associa-
tion data as to the number of troops furnished the Confederate 8 ates army by the State of Missouri,,
etc., and have to reply that there are no records at the capital from which to furnish the information
desired.

There is an ex-Confederate association in this State, Mr. James Bannerman, Southern Hotel,
St. Louis, being the president thereof, and it is possible that by communicating with him you may
be able to ascertain what you desire to know.

Regretting my inability to comply with your courteous request, I am.
Yours very respectfully,

DAVID R. FRANCIS, Governor.

Executive Department, City of Jefferson, August 21,1891.
Prof. Joseph Jones, M. D., Box No. 1600, New Orleans, La.

Dear Sir— I am in receipt of yours of the 17th, asking informition concerning the Missouri
troops in the Confederate Army, and also requsting detailed statement concerning the relations be-
tween Missouri and the Confederacy, which w uld require weeks of labor to prepare, if they could
be furnished at all. I have referred that portion of your letter concerning the number of troops
from Missouri in the Confederate service to the Adjutant General's department, of which Gen. Joseph
A. Wickham is the head, and have asked the Secretary of Stite, Capt. A. A. Lesueur, who com-
manded Lesueur's Battery in the Confederate service to make reply to your request for copies of
State papers relating to the civil war. Respectfully

* v DAVID R. FRANCIS.

Department of State, City of Jefferson. Mo, August 22, 1891.
Dr. Joseph Jones, New Orleans, La.

Dear Sir— Questions 4, 5 and 6 of your letter to Governor Francis have been referred to me
for reply, and in response would say:

1. This State has passed no law to pension or for the relief of disabled and indigent Lonied-

2 There is a Home for Confederate soldiers at Higginsville, this State, which was estab-
lished and is being sustained by private contributions, and at which all worthy and needy Missouri
ex-Confederates will be received and cared for.

United Confederate Veterans. 147

3. In order to comply with your request for "State papers, acts, etc., relating to the civil
war," I would be compelled to send you copies of Session Acts, proceedings of constiiutional con-
ventions, etc., which would make a package of considerable size, and not Knowing whether you
would be willing to pay the necessary freight or express charges, I thought best to write you for
information on that point. If you wish me to send them, please say whether by freight or express.

A. A. LESUEUR, Secretary of State.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, 1
City of Jefferson, Aug. 24, 1891. J
Governor Dav'.d R. Francis, City :

Dear Sir— I have the honor to return the enclosed letter, with the information that there is
no data on file in this office which will enable me to reply to the questions asked. I would suggest,
that perhaps the Southern Historical Society could come nearer furnishing the information asked
for than any one, unless it be Gen. Harding.

Very Respectfully. J. A. WICKHAM, Adj't Gen.

To Gen, Harding : Can you reply ?

D. R. F., Gov.

Executive Department, City of Jefferson, Aug. 26, 1891.

yoseph Jones, M. £>., 1^6 Washington Avenue, New Orleans, La.

Dear Sir— Hi further answer of yours of 17th, I enclose communications from the depart-
ment of the Adjutant General and from General James Harding, who was a brigadier in the Confed-
erate service. You will observe therefrom that it is impossible to give you definite information
on the points mentioned in your letter. I would suggest that you correspond with the Southern
Historical Society in the city of St. Louis. Capt. Lesueur informs me that he has replied to the
queries to which he could give satisfactory answers. Respectfully, DAVID R. FRANCIS.

Railroad and Warehouse Department, i

Office of Commissioners, City of Jefferson, August 25, 1891. J

Hon. David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri :

Governor — Herewi'h I have the honor to return papers referred to me by you of this date.

I believe it to be impossible to give the information desired by Surgeon-General Jones, with
any degree of accuracy. There are no records in this State from which it can be obtained, and it is
very doubtful if the records of the Confederate wir department will furnish it.

As regards question No. 1, the information must be very inaccurate, as Senator Cockrell, in
his address at Kansas City a few days since, stated that Missouri furnished more men to the Con-
federate service than any State except oue. I have given this question some attention, and am confi-
dent that 25,000 will include every man and boy in the Confederate service in this State. If the Sen.
ator is right, I am out of the way only about 60,000.

Very respectfully,] JAMES HARDING.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

Executive Department, Raleigh, August 22, 1891.
Prof. "Joseph Jones, A/. £>., P. 0\ Box 1600, New Orleans, La.

Dear Sib; I am instructed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 17th
inst,, asking for information in regard to the troops furnished by the State of North Carolina during
the Civil War, 1861 to 1865.

The information desired is not in this office, consequently can not be furnished by the Gov-
ernor. He has referred your letter to the Adjutant General of North Carolina, with the request that
he furnish you such information as he Las i . his Department.

Very truly yours, S. F. TELFAIR, Private Secretary.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

The following correspondence and documents embrace the sum of our present
knowledge with reference to the Confederate veterans and disabled soldiers of 1861-
1865 in the State of South Carolina.

Executive Chamber, Columbia, April 11, 1890.

Prof. Joseph Jones, M. L>., Box 1600, New Orleans, La.

Dear Sib: The Governor has received yours of the 9th inst., and directs me to inform you
that he will take immediate steps to procure as much of the information you desire as can possibly
be obtained. Very respectfully,

W. ELLIOTT GONZALES, Private Secretary.

Executive Department, 1
Office of the Adjutant and Inspector-General,}
Columbia, S. C, June 12, 1890. )
Surgeon- General Jones, New Orleans, La.

Sib: Herewith I send you some pamphlets relating to late war.

The rolls of companies from this State have never been completed, some 40 not having yet
come in, as per report of 1886,

148 Heport of Surgeon* General*

The number estimated to liave been furnished by this State is about 60,000, of whom It is be-
lievsd, from careful estimates, some 12,000 were killed or died. The rolls received have mainly been
made from memory, hence are far from being correct, though some are fairly so.

General McCrady has kindly furnished the four pamphlets. I am very sorry I can not give
you more reliable data. It is very doubtful if Legislature will ever have the rolls obtained put in
book form. Very respectfully,

M. L. BONHAM, Jr., A, and I. General.
JNO. SCOFFIN, Assistant.

STATE OF TENNESSEE.

[Dictated.] Executive Office, Nashville, Tenn., April 22, 1890.

Hon. Joseph Jones, Sur. Gen., etc., ij6 Wash. Ave., New Orleans.

Dear Sir : In response to the request of your letter of recent date, I have endeavored to
collect the information sought and will communicate it to you as soon as I am able to obtain it.

Very respectfully, ROBT. L, TAYLOR.

STATE OF TEXAS.

Adjutant-General's Office, 1
Austin, May 17, 1890. )
Prof. Joseph Jones, M. D., Surgeon- General United Confederate Veterans, New
Orleans, La. »

Sir: Your communication of the 9th alt., to His Excellency, Governor Ross, has been refer-
red to this office. In reply, I would state, that no records, rolls, or papers of any kind, relating to
the Texas soldiery, in the Confederate Army, can be found here, and, therefore, I have no means
of supplying the desired information.

As to indigent or helpless Confederates, private enterprise and humanity have established a
"Home" in this city for Confederates, but the State is constitutionally unable to make direct appro-
priations of money to keep said Home, but has given the rent from a large public building to this
purpose, running from $1500 to $2000 annually in value.

Respectfully, W. H. KING, Adjt. Gen.

STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Adjutant-General's Office, Richmond, Va., August 22, 1891 .
Dr. Joseph Jones, Surgeon- General United Confederate Veterans, 156 Washington
Avenue, New Orleans, La..

Sir: Your letter of the 17th inst. to Governor McKinney, requesting information as to the
number of troops from Virginia in the Confederate armies; character of their organizations; num-
bers killed, wounded, died of disease, deserted ; roster of medical officers, etc., etc., has been refer-
red to me for repiy. I regret extremely to have to say that it is not possible to give this infjima-
tion. In the great fire that attended the evacuation of this city, by the Confederate forces, April 3,
1865, the office of the adjutant-general, with Its entire contents was destroyed. Whatever records or
files'it contained capable of throwing light on the subject of your inquiries, were thus lost forever.
Of course, also, all headquarters' records and pape s with our armies in the field were turned over
to United States officers, to whom they surrendered, and are now in Washington.

There is in this State one Soldiers' Home for disabled Confederates. It is located in the sub-
urbs of Richmond, and affords accommodations to aboutjl30 inmateg. The State appropriates $10,000
a year to their maintenance. Besides some $70,000 a year are appropriated for the relief of Confederate
veterans disabled by wounds received in service. There are a number of Confederate Camps in
various parts of the State, the principal one being R. E. Lee Camp, in this city, by which mainten-
ance is given to needy veterans. Very respectfully, JaS. McDONaLD, Adjt. Gen'l.

Whilst the preceeding correspondence has yielded far less definite informa-
tion than was desired, with reference to the forces engaged or the losses incurred Dy
the individual Confederate States during the conflict of 1861-1865, at the same time
it is evident that several of the Southern States ha^e acknowledged, in a measure at
least, their obligations to assist the disabled and destitute Confederate veterans.
Foremost amongst the Southern States stand Florida, Louisiana and Georgia in their
devotion to their sons who rallied to their defence in the hour of bloody and deso-
luting war. However insignificant the assistance tendered the disabled Confeder-
ate soldiers, in comparison with the great resources of the States formerly compos-
ing the Southern Confederacy, let us hope for better, nobler and more generous
assistance for the disabled and impoverished Confederate soldiers, and the forlorn
and struggling widows of those who yielded up their lives to a just and righteous
sense of duty to their native States.

With great respect, General,

I have the honor to remain,

Your obedient servant,

JOSEPH JONES, M. D.,
Surgeon-General United Confederate Veterans,

LIST OP DELEGATES.

[NOTE —This list is necessarily very incomplete and unsatisfactory as
many Lamps disregarded instructions, some sending list of more and some fewer
delegates than they were entitled to, and some failed entirely to furnish these
Headquarters with their list of delegates, although repeatedly requested to do so.
Publication is made of all lists sent to these Headquarters, or handed in durin-
the Convention, those who were accredited, as well as those admitted to the
floor through courtesy.

A great many of the names are so badly written, they are scarely legible
so that the responsibility of errors and mis-spelling must rest with the officers of
Camps sending, them m, as all the care possible has been taken to decipher the
names 01 delegates.

Adjutant General.]

MARYLAND DIVISION.

SOCIETY OF THE A. & N. OF THE C. S. IN MD.,

BALTIMORE, MD.

Delegates.
Gen. Geo. H. Stewart, Jno. C. Henry.

VIRGINIA DIVISION.

JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT ASS'N OF VA.
Senator Jno. W. Daniel, Mayor J. Taylor Ellyson,

Gen. Jos. R. Anderson, Hon. Geo. L. Christian.

JOHN R. COOKE CAMP, C. V., VA. ASS'N.,

WEST POINT, VA.

Delegates.
Hon. J. N. Stubbs, Chairman.
Lt. Col. J. H. Phaup, Lt. Col. A. W. Eastwood.

Lt. Col. J. D. O'dell, Surgeon C. T. Whiting

Asst. Surgeon W. C. Nunn, Capt. W. W. Green.

EWELL CAMP, C. V., VA. ASS'N.,

, BRENTSVILLE, VA.

Delegates-
Capt. J. S. Powell, Adjt. J. P. Manuel, J. F. Wheat,

L. S . Marstella, Henry F. Lyon, W. E. V. Kinchelor.

150 lAst of Delegates

NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION.

CONFEDEKATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION OF NORTH
CAROLINA,

WILMINGTON, N. C.

Delegates— at large.

E. D. Hall, Wilmington, N. C. Gen. R. F. Hoke, Raleigh, N. C.

Rufus Barringer, Charlotte,. N. C. A. B. Andrews, Raleigh, N. C.
W. L. DeRossett, Wilmington, N. C. Hon. Matt. W. Ransom,

Graysburg,
Hon. Z. B. Vance, Charlotte, N.C. H. C. Jones, Charlotte, N. C.
Elias Carr, Old Sparta, N. C. F. H. Busbee, Raleigh, N. C.

First District.

Dr. C. J. O'Hagan, Greenville, N. C. W. D. Pruden, Edenton, N. C.
W. P. Roberts, Gates ville, N. C.

Second District.

W. W. Carraway, Kinston, N. C. W. R. Bond, Scotland Neck, N.C.

Thos. W. Mason, Garysburg, N. C.

Third District.

W. J. Green, Fayetteville, N. C. Matt. Manly, New Bern, N. C.
Jas. R. Kenan, Kenansville, N. C.

Fourth District.

W. H. S. Burgwyn, Henderson, N. C. W. C. Stronach, Raleigh, N. C.
W. L. London, Pittsboro, N. C.

Fifth District.

J. S. Carr, Durham, N. C. J. Turner Morehead, Leaksville,

J. A, Long, Roxboro, N. C. N. C.

Sixth District.

Jno. L. Cantwell, Wilmington, R. T. Bennett, Wadesboro,

N.C. N.C.

S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C.

Seventh District.

W. M. Robbins, Statesville, N. C. Jno. A. Ramsey, Salisbury, N. C.
M. O. Sherrill, Newton, N. C.

Eighth Disfrict.

C. B. Watson, Winston, N. C. J. W. Wilson, Morganton, N. C.

W. H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro, N. C.

United Confederate Veterans. i5l

Ninth District.
T. F. Davidson, Asheville, N. C. G. S. Ferguson, Waynesville,

E. Everett, Bryson City, N. C. N. C.

FLORIDA DIVISION.

WARD CONF'D VET. ASS'N, CAMP No. 10, U. C. V,

PENSACOLA, FLA.

Delegates.
Gen. Geo. Reese, W. D. Chiplev, J. A. Wentworth.

W. W. LORING CAMP, No. 13, U. C. V.

BROOKSVILLE, FLA.

Delegates-
Fred. L. Robertson, S. Stringer, J. W. Corman.

INDIAN RIVER CAMP No. 47, U. C. V,

TITUSVILLE, FLA.

Delegates.
J. Pritchard, A. D. Cohen, W. H. Sharpe.

ORANGE CO. CAMP No. 54, U. C. V.

ORLANDO, FLA.

Delegates .
Robert Howe, Gen. S. G. French.

MARION CO. CONF'D VET. ASS'N, CAMP No. 56, U. C. V.

OCALA, FLA.

Delegates.
Gen. J. J. Dickison, Gen. J. M. Martin, Col. Edwin Badger,

Wm. Fox, Jno. F. Dunn.

Alternate.
T. D. Lancaster.

R. E. LEE CAMP, No. 58, U. C. V.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA.

Delegates.
W. D. Matthews, W. G. Toomer, A. O. McDonell,

W. G. Coleman, K. D. Chandler.

Alternates .
J. A. Enslow, Jr., W. C. Middleton, J. H. Huckabee,

E. T. Paine, W. M. Davidson.

162 List of Delegates

NASSAU CAMP No. 104, U. C. V.

FERNANDINA, FLA.

Delegates.
D. E. Maxwell.

Alternate.
W. D. Ballentine.

D. L. KENAN CAMP No. 140, U. C. V.

QUINCY, FLA.

Delegates.
Jas. E . Browne, W. W. Wilson, H. F. Sharon.

GEN. JOS. FINNEGAN CAMP, No. 149, U. C. V-

SANFORD, FLA.

Delegates.
Dr. R. W. Rea, Jno. F. Early, Dr. J. J. Harris.

Alternates.
Capt. Otis Tarver, Capt. R. F. Whitner.

LAMAR CAMP, No. 161, TJ. C. V.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA.

Delegates.
Gov. F. P. Fleming, D. Lang.

GEORGIA DIVISION.

CONFEDERATE VETERANS' ASSOCIATION, OF
NEWTON COUNTY,

COVINGTON, GA.

Delegates.
Capt. J. M. Pace, ■ Col. L. L. Middlebrook, Dr. E. H. Yancey,
Houston A. Jones, Col. R. W. Bagley, L. A. Starr.

FULTON COUNTY, GA. CAMP No. 159, U. C. V.

ATLANTA, GA.

Gen. W. L, Calhoun, John Mcintosh Kell, J. Wm. Jones,
A. J. West, Geo. B. Forbes, Henry R. Powers,

J. H. Morgan, S. H. Laudruni, J. J. Barnes,

W. M. Durham, D. A. Buice, B . F. McDuflSe,

W. B. Burke, J. N. Smith.

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ALABAMA DIVISION.

W. J. HARDEE CAMP, No. 39, U. C. V.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Delegates.

M. J. Bulger, ChairmaD,
Jos. F. Johnston, M. T. Porter, S. L. Robertson,

R. E. Jones, T. A. Hamilton, J. B. K Smith,

W. S. Smith, W. D. Bulger, W. H. Reynolds,

D. J. McCord, J. M. Haron, R. W. Rntherford,

Gan. F. S. Ferguson.

LOMAX CAMP No. 151, U. C. V.

MONTGOMERY, ALA.

Delegates.
Major Gen. W. W. Allen, Gen. J. T. Holtzclaw,

Mayor C.J. Campbell, B . L . Wyman .

Alternates.
Major L. 0. Ramsey, Capt. H. T. Walker, Capt. B. H. Screws.

BESSEMER CAMP, No. 157, U. C. V.

BESSEMER, ALA.

Delegates.
A. A. Harris, N. H. Sewall, T. P. Waller.

LOUISIANA DIVISION.

ARMY NORTHERN VA., CAMP No. 1, U. C. V.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Delegates.

E. M. Hudson, Chairman,
J. B. McPeake, John S. Mioton, Edwin Marks,

David Zable, T. J. Dimitry, John T. Gilmore,

Pat Hayes, Mat. O'Brien, Charles Smith,

John H . Murray, Fred . S . Washington .

Alternates.
Fred. A. Ober, J Moore Wilson, John Charles,

Peter Blake, William P . Brewer, J. J. Cumpsten,

W . H • McChesney, Thomas Higgins, George Murphy,

A. Kinsley, L.. It, Lincoln,

154

List of Delegates

ARMY OF TENN. CAMP No. 2, U. C. V.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Delegates.

Joseph D. Taylor, Chairman,
W . T . Cluverius, Gen. J . A. Chalaron, Walter H . Rogers,

Gen. Wright Scbaumburg, Dr. Y. R. Lemonnier,

Benj . F . Jonas, John B . Vinet,

R. D. Screven, Alden McLellan,

EL Bower, R. H. Brunet,

William Bullitt, J. T. Alleyn,

F. O. Trepagnier, Charles A. Beck,

H. W. W. Reynolds, Gen. John Glynn, Jr.

W. E. Huger,
R. W. Gillespie,
J. U. Landry,
Charles Vanney,
S. D. Stockman,
Charles Vautier,

Alternates.

A. W. Hyatt,
Adolphe Schreiber,
E. T. Manning,
N. T. N.Robinson,
Pierre Lanaux,
Albert Estopinal,

R. A. DeRussy,
Thomas R. Roach,
Benj. F. Wiggin,
John McCoy,
Arthur Lambert,
John B . Ballard .

GEN. LE ROY STAFFORD CAMP, No. 3, U. C. V.

SHREVEPORT, LA.

Delegates.
P. J. Trezevant, James F. Utz, R T. Vinson.

JEFF. DAVIS CAMP, No. 6, U.C.V.

ALEXANDRIA, LA.

Delegates.
Gen. Geo. O. Watts, Thos. Clements, W. W. Whittington,

Dr. S. N. Rushing, Ben. Turner, A. Jarreau.

RUSTON CAMP, No. 7, U. C. V.

T W. Poole,
T. B. Finlay,

JR. Fuller,

RUSTON, LA.

Delegates.

N. Burgress,
J. T. Baker,
W. A. Kirkpatric.

Alternates.
J. W. Heard,

W. A. J. Lewis,
E. M. Graham,

Jonn Hamilton .

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VETERAN CONFEDERATE STATES CAVALRY,
CAMP No. 9, U. C. V.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Delegates.
Col. W._G. Vincent, Hon. J. A. Breaux, B. R Forman,
Gen. J. Henry Behan, J. Pinckney Smith, Dr. Joseph Jones,
J. C. Denis, A. W. Crandell.

Alternates.
J. A. Harral, T. C. Herndon, G. H. Tichenor,

W. S. Wren, E. R. Wells, Columbus H. Allen,

T. W. Castleman, H. C. Gause.

R. E. LEE CAMP, No. 14 ,TJ. C. V.

OPELOUSAS, LA.

Delegates.

L. D. Prescott, John N. Ogden, Gen. E. T. Lewis,

Charles W. Du Roy, Leonce Sandoz, A.B.Anderson,

Ben. S. Bloomfield.

WASHINGTON ARTILLERY CAMP No. 15, U. C. V.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Delegates.
B. F. Eshleman, Chairman.
JohnB. Richardson, Wm. A. Randolph, Eug. May,
W. B. Redmond, W. Miller Owen, Chas. A. Harris,

Chas. G. Johnsen, W. T. Hardie, E. I. Kursheedt,

Ed . A . Palfrey, Louis A . Adam .

Alternates.

C. H. C. Brwn, Wm. A. Collins, Wm. Palfrey,

Chas. Palfreo A. J. Leverich, Charles E. Apps,

C. L. C. Dupuy, J. Watts Kearney, Robt. McMillan,

Hy. C. Florence, H. L. Zebal, P.O. Fazende.

HENRY ST. PAUL CAMP, No 16, U. C. V.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Delegates.
Paul Conrad, James A . Pierce, John E . Nores .

Alternates.
Valentine S . Goodin^ Leon Coppens, Jeremiah Lyons .

156 List of Delegates

BATON KOUGE CAMP, No. 17, U. C .V.

BATON KOUGE, LA.

Delegates.
F. D. Tunnard, C C. McGregor, W. B. Cooper,

G. C. Mills, C. A. Roberts.

IBERVILLE CAMP, No. 18, U. V. C.

PLAQUEMINE, LA.

Delegates.
Charles A. Brusle, Sebastian Heriat.

R. L. GIBSON CAMP, No. 33, U. V. C

EVERGREEN, LA.

Delegates.

Col. W. M. Ewell, T. D. Wier, G. B. Genin,

Isaac C. Johnson.

MAJOR VICTOR MAURIN CAMP, No. 38, U. V. C.

DONALDSONV1LLE, LA .

Delegates.
R. N. Sims, C. Mollere, J. T. Nolan-

Alternates.
A. D. Vega, O. Landry, E. Hidalgo.

NATCHITOCHES CAMP, No. 40, U. V. C.

NATCHITOCHES, LA.

Delegates.

J. C. Trichell, J. E Breda, J. H. Hill,

J. N. Johnson.

Alternates.

J. H. Prudhomme, Gen. J. H. Cosgrove, G. L. Trichell,

J. AlphoDse Prudhomme.

CAMP MOORE CAMP, No. 60, U. C. V

TANGIPAHOA, LA,

Delegates,
Capt. JobnFrieler, R L Praughon.

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CALCASIEU CONF'D VET. ASS'N CAMP, No. G2, "U. C. V.

LAKE CHAKLES, LA.

Delegates.
J . W . Moore, John McCormick, C . L. Lichardson,

W. L. Hutchins.

Alternates.

G. W. Richardson, Alcide Landry, G. W. Ryan,

W. F. McClanahon,

AMITE CITY CAMP, No. 78, U. C. V.

AMITE CITY, LA.

Delegates.
E. C. Cooler, A. P. Richards, J M. Craig.

Alternates.
T. B. Sowell, Wm. B. Kemp, S. D. Richardson.

ISAIAH NORWOOD CAMP, No. 110, U. C. V.

MERRICK, LA.

Delegates.
Capt. J. S. Norwood, J. F Collins.

RICHLAND CAMP, No. 152, U C. V.

RAYV1LLE, LA .

Delegates.
E. McDonald, E H Williams.

31ISSISSIPPI DIVISION.

SYLVESTER GWIN CAMP, GRAND CAMP MISS. No. 18,

BROOKHAYEN, MISS.

Delegates,

Jas. A. Hoskins, H Cassidy, Chas. Hinck,

EM. Bee, J B. Daughty, A. E. Moreton,

F S. Co: ton, J. F. Sessions,

YAZOO CAMP No. 19, GRAND CAMP MISS.

YAZOO CITY, MISS,

Delegates.

S Dj RolwtKOu, Robt- Campbell, Jno, Nowbery,

Vi\X Riley

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List of Delegates

T. G. Vining,

S. H. Aby,

W. C. Wilkinson,

T. P . Lockwood,
T. F. Tillman,

BEN. HUMPHEEY'S CAMP, No. 19, U. C. V.

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MISS.

Delegates.
F. R. J. Terry, L. Palmer,

C. Humphries, O. H. Spence,

R. E. Jones.

Alternates.

L. M. Dampeer, J. W. Hurxthall,
W. J. Eea, A. A. Boyd.

Theo. L Bauer,
Maj . John Rawle,

NATCHEZ CAMP, No. 20, U. C. V.

NATCHEZ, MISS.

Delegates.
J. B. O'Brien,
Robt Scudamore,

Jno. Connor,
F. J. V. LeCand

Jas. Pipes,
M. J. Greany,

Alternates.

W B. Irvine,
B. D. Guice,

E. L. Hopkins,
A. D. Carpenter.

HATTIESBURG CAMP No. 21, U. C. V.

HATTIESBURG, MISS.

J J. Bradford, E. H. Harris.

J.J. WHITNEY CAMP No. 22, U. C. V.

FAYETTE, MISS.

Delegates.
J. J. Whitney, F. H. Cully, R. M. J. Arnette.

Alternates.
W. L. Stephen, Jas. Archer, Jr. A.J. Melton.

KITT MOTT CAMP, No. 23, U. C V.

HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS.

Delegates.
Jas . B . Matteson, Sam. H. Pryor, W. H . Lofton .

ROBERT A. SMITH CAMP, No. 24, U. C. V.

JACKSON, MISS .

Delegates.
R. J. Harding, Chairman.
Geo S Green, Jno. McDonnell, B. Lemly,

T. D. Pace, Jno. G. Carraway. J F Moore

Jno. Sart, H« Strauss.,

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WALTHALL CAMP No. 25, U. C. V.

MERIDIAN, MISS.

Delegates.

E. H. Dial, J. W. Broach, W. F. Brown,
B. V. White, T. C Carter, R. M. Houston,
T. C. Sinclair, W. T. Colman, W. L. Goldsmith,
E E. Spinks, J. G. Sandusky, T. P. Brown,

F. M. Jones, J. C. Andrews, M. Winner,

J. S. Comfort, H. M. Street.

ISHAM HARRISON CAMP, No. 27, U. C. V.

COLUMBUS, MISS .

Delegates.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Col. E. T. Sykes.

WOODVILLE CAMP, No, 49, U. C. V.

WOODVILLE, MISS.

Delegates.
M. Jacoby, P. M. Stockett, J3r. J. F. Therrell.

Alternates.

G. F. McGehee, H . S . Van Eaton, Frank Stuart.

BEAU VOIR CAMP. No. 120, U. C. V.

MISSISSIPPI CITY. MISS.

Delegates.
Elliot Henderson, Dr. W. F. Spence, F. S. Hewes.

Alternates.
A.J. Ramsay, B. Dukeworth, Chas. E. Smedes.

JOHN M. STONE CAMP, No. 131, U. C. V.

TUPELO, MISS.

Delegates.
Major Gen Jno. M. Stone, J. C. Fenley.

TENNESSEE DIVISION.

N. B. FORREST CAMP, No. 4, U. C. V

CHATTANOOGA, TENN .

Delegates-
J. P. Smart, W. H. Tibbs, C A. Lverly,

F. M. Gardenhier, M. V. Reed, G. G. Lillie,

Thos. J. Howard.

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FRED. AULT CAMP No 5, U. C. V.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.

Delegates.

J. W. S. Frierson,
Alternates.

W.A.Henderson, C S. Newman, J. Y. Johnston.

Frank A. Moses,

D. D. Anderson.

CONFEDERATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION CAMP No. 28,

U. C. V.

C. W. Frazer,
J. H. Mathes,

S. A . Pepper,
M. L. Selden,

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Delegates.

A. J. Vaughan,
T. F. Tobin,
R. P. Suowden.
Alternates.
C. A. Douglass,
J. L. Goodloe,

Gen. G. W. Gordon,
H. C. Myers,

J. H. Martin,
H.L.Bedford

FRANK CHEATHAM CAMP No 35, U. C. V.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Jno. P. Hickman,
Frank Anderson,
H. T. Sinnot,
Barney McCabe,
P. M. Griffin,

Delegates.

Jno. B. Talbot,
W. B. Clark,
J. 0. Loftin,
Jno. W, Morton,
Alex. Bolton.

Ed. Reece,

S. W. Edwards,

W. J. Mc Murray,

Isaac Litton,

JNO. INGRAM CAMP No. 37, U. C. V.

JACKSON, TENN.

Delegates.
R. A. Allison, J. J. Worrell, W. F. Henry,

W. F. Blackard, Wm. Holland, Jno. W. Gates,

E. B. McNeil.

FELIX K. ZOLLICOFFER, CAMP No. 46, U. C. V.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.

Delegates.

JobnF. Horn©, Charles Ducloux, R.A.Armstrong

Alternate.

iTn.ot W. Hope, Jas, 0, fcuttrell. ^ike ?» C0W65

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DIBRELL CAMP No. 55, U. C. V.

LEWISBURG, TENN.

Delegates.
W. P. Irvine, W. W. Walker, Sam. C. Orr.

FORBES CAMP No. 77, U. C. V.

CLARKSVILLE, TENN.

Delegates.
Clay Stacker, C. W. Tyler, J. J. Garrott,

D. Meriwether, C. H. Bailey, J. B. L. Lockert,

SHACKLEFORD FULTON CAMP No. 114, U. C. V.

FAYETTEVILLE, TENN.

Delegates.

A. M. Hall, W. C. Griswell, E. N. Crawford,

G. K. Crump, J. D. Tillman.

JNO. L. McEWEN CAMP No. 134, U. C. V.

FRANKLIN, TENN.

Delegates.

T. F. Perkins, R. N. Richardson, J. O. Crump,

W. J. Petway, J. H. Akin, B. F. Roberts.

RAIN'S BIVOUAC OF TENN. STATE CAMP,

DICKSON, TENN.

Delegates.
S. G. Gleazor, J. E. Fussell.

HINDMAN BIVOUAC SONS OF SOLDIERS.
Delegates.

Briscoe Hindman, W. D. Gale, R. P. Webb,

Paul W. Treanor, Litton Hickman, Frank Cheatham,

ROBERT HATTON BIVOUAC TENN. STATE CAMP,

LEBANON, TENN.

Delegates.
Capt. J. R. Lester, Capt. C. C. H. Burton.

KENTUCKY DIVISION.

PARIS CAMP No. 95, U. C. V.

PARIS, KY.

Delegates.

Capt. A. T. Forsyth, Jos. M. JoDes,

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HARRODSBURG CAMP No. 96, U. C. V.

HARRODSBURG, KY .

Delegates.

Capt. Bush W. Allin,

VERSAILES CAMP No. 97, U. C. V.

VERSAILES, KY .

Delegates.

Capt. Jos. G. Bailey, R. B. Suggett,

State Senator . Jas . Blackburn, Henry L . Martin,

GEORGETOWN CAMP No. 98, U. C. V.

GEORGETOWN, KY .

Delegates.

Capt. A. H. SINCLAIR,

CYNTHIANA CAMP No. 99, U. C. V.

•| CYNTHIANA, KY .

Delegates.

Capt. A. S. Welch.

LEXINGTON CAMP No. 100, 13. C. V.

LEXINGTON, KY .

Delegates.

Ma|. Gen. Jno. Boyd, A. M. Harrison, S. G. Sharp,

Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, Maj. R. S. Bullock,

Gen. Jno. C. Underwood, Rowley Maun.

Judge J. D. Hunt,

LAWRENCEBURG CAMP No. 101, U. C. V.

LAWRENCEBURG, KY .

Delegates.

Capt. P. H. Thomas.

JNO. W. CALDWELL CAMP No. 139, U. C. V.

RUSSELLVILLE, KY .

Delegates.
Col. Jno. W. Caldwell, Maj. J. B. Briggs,

BOWLING GREEN CAMP No. 143, U. C. V.

BOWLING GREEN, KY .

Delegates,
Judge W. L. Dulaney, Capt. E. L. Hines,

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CONFEDERATE ASSOCIATION OF LOUISVILLE, KY , STATE

CAMP .

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Delegates

Gen. Jno. B. Castleman,

TEXAS DIVISIONS.

CAMP ECTOR EX-CONF'D VET'S STATE ASSOCIATION,

COOPER DELTA CO., TEXAS.

Delegates.
D. H. Lane, J. A. Good, L. T. Robinson.

Alternates.

Geo. W. Jones, W. T. Curington, J. F.Lamb.

JEFF. DAVIS CAMP OF TEXAS, STATE ASS'N,

CONCHO CO., TEXAS.

Capt. W. T. Melton, J. W. RatcMord.

J. B. Curry.

BEN. McCULLOCH CAMP No, 29, U. C. V.

CAMERON, TEXAS.

Delegates.
" Wm. M. Gill,
Piper White,
J. L. Stewart,
Park Kerr,

Col. E. J. Mclver,
Jno. Hopkins,
Wm. Ditto,
Robt. Culberson,
T. A. Robinson,

J, F. Davis,
T. F. Johnson,
W. D. Broadnax,
L. P. McCord,
J. J. Irwin.

STERLING PRICE CAMP No. 31, U. C. V.

Gen. W. H. Gaston,
J< P. Mundy,
A. T. Watts,
E. P. Marshall,
W. H. Taylor,

DALLAS, TEXAS.

Delegates.
F. Waltman,
Judge R. E. Burk,
J. C. Story,
q. P. Bowser,

T . B. Trotnian,
Judge D. L. Stewart.
H W. Graber,
J. Pink Thomas,
Gen. W. L .Thompson.

JNO. C. UPTON CAMP No. 43, U. C. V.

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS.

Delegates.
J. M. Smither, J. T. Jarrard, G. W. Farris.

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Alternates.

J . T. Hunter, J. M. Abernathy, S. P. Montgomery.

J. E. B. STUART CAMP No. 45, U. C. V.

TERRELL, TEXAS.

Delegates.
J. T. Walker, H. L. Parsons, W. L. Verner,

B. F. Coyle, J. B. Porter, J. A. Anthony,

Vic Reinhardt.
Alternates.

J. N. DeGuire, P. G. Nebhut, Joe. C Campbell,

A. J. Beck, Ernberry Cameron, Ceo. Russell,

Jno. Hitt, Robt. Michie.

COL. B. TIMMONS CAMP No. 61, U. C. V.

LA GRANGE, TEXAS.

Delegates.
R. H. Phelps, W. H.Thomas.

JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON CAMP No. 63, U. C. V.

CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Mark Downey, David M. Murphy, Miles Barber,

H. R. Sutherland.
Alternates.
Geo. French, Jos. Wright, Jr., J. E. Weymouth.

HOWDY MARTIN CAMP No. 65, U. C. V.

ATHENS, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Wm. Davis, C. E. Waldron, Jno. Miles,

W. T. Eustace.

GRANBURY CAMP No. 67, U. C. V.

GRANBURY, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Walter Glenn, S. H. Smith, Geo. W. Jones,

Lee Rhodes.

ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON CAMP No. 71, U. C. V.

KINGSTON, HUNT CO., TEXAS.

Delegates.

J. F. Puckett, T. B. Spaulding, T. J. Foster.

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Alternates.

J. A. Maupin, J. W. Ellis, M. L. Peebles,

D. E. Thomas.

ABILENE CAMP No. 72, LT. C. V.

ABILENE, TEXAS.

H. L. Bentley, C. Evans, J. M. Isbell,

J. H. Pickens, C. P. Warren, D. W. Wristen.

W. J. HAEDEE CAMP No. 73, U. C. V.

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS.

Delegates.
Maj. Gen. R. Cobb, T. N. Skeen, W. P. Skeen,

A. J. Fleming, T. H. Wilson.

ROCKWALL CAMP No. 74, U. C. V.

ROCKWALL, TEXAS.

Delegates.

N. C. Edwards, Joseph Cox, Albert Walker,

W. B. Bonsall, H. S. White.

Alternates.
W. L. Brown, M. S. Austin, B. G*. Coone,

J. S. Hewitt, R. D. Phillips, T. M. Wade.

ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON CAMP No. 75, U. C. V.

BEAUMONT, TEXAS.

Delegates.
Jeff Chaisson, R. R. Ridley.

JOHN PELHAM CAMP No. 76, U. C. V.

COLEMAN, TEXAS.

Delegates.
Capt. J. J. Hallan, T. W. White, W. A. Humphrey,

C. W. Thomas, A. H. O'Keefe.

ERATH AND COMANCHE CAMP No. 85, U. C. V.

DUBLIN, TEXAS.

Delegates.

J. B. Turnwell, Jas. Terry, W. H. Davis,

Pete Coker, Wm. Howell, Isaac Howell,

Jack Bowman, R. A . Ross, T. O. Moon,

L. E. Gillett, J. N.Williams, G.B. Chancellor,

W. A . Montgomery, W. M. Clark.

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BEDFORD FORREST CAMP No. 86, U. C. V.

SEYMOUR, TEXAS.

Delegates.
L . A. Donnell, R. J. Browning.

WM. L. MOODY CAMP No. 87, U. C. V.

FAIRFIELD, TEXAS.

Delegates.

G. T. Bradley, J. T. Steward, Dr. Jas. I. Bonner,

Dr. W. N. Sneed, A. T. Watson, R. L. Smith,

Ira. G. Cobb, R. E. Steele, R. F. Chandler,

H. J. Childs.

GRAYSON CO. TEXAS CAMP No. 90, U. C. V.
( Now Mildred Lee )

SHERMAN, TEXAS.

Delegates.

G. S. Staples, A. Fulton, L. F. Ely,

E. P. Gregg, J. T. Wilson, J. C. Edmonds,

W.B. Chiles, L. L Mauchs, Jos. Greer,

R. L. Belsher, Robt. Walker,

Alternates.
J. L. Randolph, H. N. Tuck, M. H, Andrews,

A. M. Ashcroft, J. A. Potts, S. J. Melton,

J. W. Scott, I. N. Holder, J. M. Kelley,

J. M. Culver, J. C. Umphress.

BOB STONE CAMP No. 93, U. C. V.

MONTAGUE, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Capt. Bob. Bean, R. D. Rugeley, W. A. Williams,

Jno. W. Bowers, W. W. Dillard, W. L. Gwaltney,

Levy Perryman, J. C. Bilbo, A. Coleman,

J. W. L. Kern, E. G. Bivens.

JOE. JOHNSTON CAMP, No. 94 U. C. V.

MEXIA, TEXAS.

Delegates.

T. J. Gibson, J. M. Rambo, W. P. Brown,

S. B. Love, B. F. Wallace.

Alternates.

C. L. Watson, J. P. Cook, R. M. Love,

J. M Suttle, Rado Steele, H.Williams,

C. H. F. Wood, C. S. Bates, J. E. Parker,

H. F. Simmons, L.J. Farrar.

United Confederate Veterans.

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PAT. CLEBURNE CAMP, No. 102, U. C. V.

NARASOTA, TEXAS.

Delegates.

O. A. Norwood.

JOHN B. HOOD CAMP, No. 103, U. C. V.

AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Geo. A. Wheatley.

MAGRUDER CAMP i\o. 105, U. C. V.

GALVESTON, TEXAS.

Delegates.

J. Z. H. Scott, A. H. Wainright, Thos. Keats,

Vic. Weeks, Theo. K. Thompson, C. C. Beavens,

R G . Jennett.

JEFF. DAVIS CAMP, No. 108, U. C. V.

WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS.

Delegates.

W. J. F. Ross, A. E. Dubose, J. C. Loggins,

W. M. McKnight, R P. Mackey, Anson Rainey,

A. M. Dechman, AT. Miller, J. B. Wilson,

Jno. Harrison, Buck Syles,

COLLIN CO. TEXAS CAMP, No. 109, U. C. V.

MC KINNEY, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Maj. Gen. W. N. BUSH, J. M. Pearson,

R. D. Allison,
H . C . Herndon,
W. S Cummins,
H. M. Rollins,
Roland Gooch,
J. B. King,
Henry Carver,
R. W. Prater,

Mc. Smith
W. M. BUSH,
J. F. Butler,
M. A. Jackson,
H. M. Rollins,
R Murchison,
D. S. Stewart,
J. J. McDonald,

H. M. Beatty,

W. M. Abernathy,
J. B. Watkins,
W. M. Weaver,
R. W. Carpenter,
T. J Davie,
Jno. Murchison,
M. A. Jackson,
J. H. Smith,
F. H. Welch,
W. T. Moore.

W. P. TOWNSEND CAMP, No. Ill, U. C. V.

J. W. White
A. M. Rushin,
P. B. Waters,
A. L. Williams,

CALVERT, TEXAS.

Delegates.

J. P. Mercer,
J . Y . Beasley,
C . W . Leopard,
G. A. Gordon,

S. F. Ferguson,
W. R Riley,
C W. Higginbotham,
J. W. Weaver,

Lid of Delegates
Alternates.

J. P. Greenlees, D. B. Boreman, E. G. Hamilton,

C. W. Gordon, T. L. Lummines.

ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON CAMP No. 116 U. C. V

HAMILTON, TEXAS.

O. R. Morrison,
Battle Fort,
J. N. Selph,

Delegates.

A. H. Watson,
J G . Barbes,
F. M. Carlton,

F. C. Miluer,
W. T. Shaffer,
W. F. Saxon,

JEFF DAVIS CAMP No. 117, U. C. V.

GOLDTHWAITE, TEXAS.

D. S. Kelly,
J. C. Nailor,
W. W' Ware,
J. H. Rutland,
A. V. Lane,

Delegates.
D. I. Haralson,
L . G . Blackburn,
W. L. Martin,
W.. Rosamond,
T. S. Baird,

F. M. Taylor,
A. P. Carson,
M. J. Doyle,

G. H. Fannum,
A. A. Hutchinson.

JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON CAMP No. 119. U. C. V.

R. D. Gribble,
O. N. Brisene,
N . B . Pearce,
J. W. Murphy,
D. J. Kennedy,
W. H. Garmany,
W. F. Miller,
T. J. Roan,

Dr. J. T.

GAINESVILLE, TEXAS-

Delegates.

E. F. Comegys,
A . Crozier,
J. P. Hall,
T. D. Conener,
P. B. Stover,
A Liudenthal,
D. J. Wilson,
H . L Boone,
Fears, Jno. T.

J. M. Wright,
J E. Bridges,
Dr. C. C. Walker,
Jack Gillinwaters,
E. F. Carter,
Wm . Kilgore,
A. R. Birdwell,
G. P. Foote,
Walker.

J. B. ROBERTSON CAMP No. 124, U. C. V.

BBYAN, TEXAS.

Delegates.
H. B. Stoddard, J. J. Adams, J. G. Anderson

M-W. Sims, J. F. Parks, J. S. Mooring,

S. B. Buchanan, Jno. M. Corquodale.

Alternates.

J. W. McAlexander, W. G. Mitchell, W. H. Harman.

United Confederate Veterans.
SUL RC-SS CAMP No. 129, U. C. V.

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J. R. Burton,
W.B. Brown,
Robert Keith,

DENTON, TEXAS.

Delegates.
J. M. Weeks,
D. A. Fry,
Bob. Hardwick,
M. Willis.

C. C. Sullivan,
Dr. Brock,
L. Willis.

JAMES L. HOGG, CAMP No. 133, U. C. V.

CANTON, TEXAS.

Delegates.
W. F. Bradley.

EX-CONF'D ASS'N CORYKLL CO. CAMP No. 135, U. C. V.

GATESV1LLE, TEXAS.

Delegates.

J. R. Brown, Chairman,

Jno Schley, R. H. Shoaf, W. L. Card,

J. H. Toliver, W J. Toliver, Joe Levin,

W. S. Hill, J. M Sarell, J. H. Burnham,

J. M Brown, Charles Taylor, W. A. McButs.

C. Brown, W. W Cox, J. P. Cox.

CAMP ROGERS CAMP No. 142, U. C. V.

CALDWELL, TEXAS.

Dr J. P. Oliver,
W. L. Womnck,
J. C. Hale,

Delegates.

G.J. Williams,
A. J. Norrill,
J. T. Reeves,
A. J. Porter.

H H. Gilley,
T. M. Hunt,
A.J. Horten,

ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON CAMP No. 144, U. C. V.

D. M. Poor,

Gen. W. H Young,

W.B. Wright,

SAN ANTONro, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Hart Mussey,
J. V. Spring,
Archie Chivelier.

W. H. Brooker,
Gen HP Bee,

GEO, D, MANION, CAMP No. 145, XL C, Y,
Delegate*,

r>r W. A. Mfolkey.

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ALVARADO CAMP No. 160, U. C. V.

ALVARADO, TEXAS.

Delegates.
W. L Martin.

HORACE RANDALL CAMP No. 163, U. C. V.

CARTHAGE, TEXAS.

Capt. J. R. Bond,
F M. Daguell,
W. E. Poke,

Delegates.
E. D. Hall,
L. S Pruit,
J. A. Alsup,

B F. Whitfield,
D. M. Varoter,
Dan. Chadwick.

HILL COUNTY CAMP No. 166, U. C. V.

\V. T. Moore,
E . M. Long,
J. P. Connell,
R V. Hicks,

HILLSBORO, TEXAS.

Delegates.
P. M. Greenwide,
C. C Hicks,
J. S. Robinson,
Sivint,

D. Harris,
Jno. Newsom,
G. S Tipps,
B. Knox

JEFF. DAVIS CAMP No. 168, U. C. V.

J. W. Ratchford,
D. W. Hudson,

PAINT ROCK, TEXAS.

Delegates.
W. T. Meltor,
R W. Morris,
J. A. Pace.

J. B. Currie,
W W. Fowler,

TOM GREEN CAMP No. 169, U. C. V.

E. P. Nicholson,
Dr. Nier,

WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.

Delegates.

Jno. Lynons, Maj . Kinnison,

B. G. Bidwell, Capt. Rice.

R. M. Henderson,
H. C. Dial,

MATT ASHCROFT CAMP No. 170, U. C. V.

SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS.

Delegates.

W. F. Henderson,
Wm. Fear,
G. E. Anderson,

W. J. Branen,
W. C. Hargrove,

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ARKANSAS DIVISION.

EX-CONFD STATE ASSOCIATION, CONFEDERATE CAMP OF
GARLAND COUNTY, ARK.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK.

Delegates.

Gen. Jno. M. Harrell.

BEN. T. DUVAL CAMP No. 146, U. C. V.

FORT SMITH, ARK.

Delegates.

Capt. P. T. Duvaney, Maj. Gen. Ben T. DuVal,

Charles Surgel.

Alternates.

Winder, C. F. Bocquin.

INDIAN TERRITORY DIVISION.

JFFF. LEE CAMP No. 68, U. C. V.

MCALESTER, INDIAN, TER .

Delegates.

Capt. R. B. Coleman,

JOHN H. MORGAN CAMP No. 107, U. C. V.

ARDMORE, INDIAN, TER.

Delegates.

Geo. H. Bruce, Jno. L. Gait, W. Scott Cook,

W. W. Hyden, D. J. Kendall.

DIVISION OF THE NORTH WEST.

EX-CONF'D ASS'N CHICAGO CAMP No. 8, U. C. V.

CHICAGO, ILL.

Delegates.

Gen. Jno. C. Underwood, Col. R. H. Stewart,

Col . F. H. Southmayd,

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DIVISION.

WASHINGTON CITY, CONF'D CAMP No 171, U C. V.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Delegates.

Major Albert Akers ,

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DAVIS MONUMENT COMMITTEE.

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Headquarters United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La., May 7, 1892.

General Orders No . 58.

The general commanding' hereby appoints the following members
of the United Confederate Veteran Asssociation, in conformity with
the unanimous vote of the convention of delegates assembled at New
Orleans on April 8 and 9 "that a committee of one from each State and
one from the Indian Territory be appointed, to be known as the
"Davis Monument Committee." Members from the other States will
be appointed as soon as their camps are enrolled in the organization:

Lieutenant General W. L. Cabell, chairman, Dallas, Texas.
Capt. John L. Gait, Ardmore, I. T.
General John M. Harrell, Hot Springs, Ark.
Major General J. O. Shelby, Adrian, Mo.
Colonel Charles G. JoVnsen, New Orleans, La.
Colonel J. L. Power, Jackson. Miss.
Major General W. H. Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.
Major General John Boyd, Lexington, Ky.
Major General John C. Underwood, Chicago, III.
General Joseph Hodgson, Mobile, Ala.
General W. L. Calhoun, Atlanta, Ga.
Major General J. J. Dickison. Ocal », Fla.
Dr. K. H. Holliday, Clinton, N. C.
Capt. B. H. Teague, Aiken, S. C.
Maj Albert Akers, Washington, D. C.

The committee will meet subject to the call of the chairman.
By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding,
Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of tilaff.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, )
New Orleans, La., July 23, 1892. j'

General Orders No. 71.

The general commanding hereby makes the following appoint-
ment of a member of the Virginia division, in addition to those
already appointed in General Orders No. 58, current series, from
these headquarters, to serve upon the "Davis Monument Committee,"
tp-wit:

J. Taylor EUy^op, Richmond, Va.

Byord.er«f J. B. GORDON,

Generql Commending

Geo. Moorman.

Mjidunt (hierfii mid Chief of ttn</\

United Confederate Veterans. 17

COMMITTEE ON PENSION FOR MRS. DAVIS.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans.
New Orleans, La., May 14, 1892.

General Orders No. 59.

The general commanding hereby appoints the following members
of the United Confederate Veteran Association, as directed by a unan-
imous vote of the convention of delegates assembled at New Orleans,
La., on April 8 and 9, 1892, as a commtttee "whose duty it shall be to
memorialize the governors and legislatures of the States and Territo-
ries which comprised the late Confederate States, to grant to Mrs. V.
Jefferson Davis a pension during her lifetime." Members from the
other States will be appointed as soon as their camps are enrolled in
the organization :

General Geo. W. Gordon, chairman, Memphis, Tenn.

Hop. G. W. Bolton, Pineville, La.

Major General N. B. Guy, McAlester, Indian Territory.

Jos. W. Mercer, Kansas City, Mo.

General A. T. Watts, Dallas, Texas.

Major General Ben. T. Duval, Fort Smith, Ark.

Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington, Ky.

Jos F. Johnston. Birmingham, Ala.

Colonel Hugh H. Colquitt, Atlanta, Ga.

Gov. F. P» Fleming, Jacksonville, Fla.

Colonel J. B. Davis, Aiken, S. C.

Hon. Matt. W. Ranson, Garysburg, N. C.

Major General J. M. Stone, Jackson, Mies.

The committee will meet subject to the call of the chairman.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding,
Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans^
New Orleans, La., May 14, 1892.

General Orders No. 60.

The general commanding hereby appoints the following mem-
bers of the United Confederate Veteran Association, in conformity
with the unanimous vote of the convention of delegates assembled at
New Orleans, on April 8 and 9; "that a committee of one from each of
the thirteen Confederate States, and one each from the Indian Terri-

1 74 Committees

tory, District of Columbia, and the Division of the Northwest, be ap-
pointed "as a Committee on Constitution and By-Laws." Members
from the other States will be appointed as soon as their camps are
enrolled in the organization:

General J. A. Chalaron, chairman, New Orleans, La.

Major General John C. Underwood, Chicago, 111.

General Wm. L. Thompson, Dallas, Texas.

Colonel E. B. Coleman, McAlester, Indian Territory.

Geo. B. Spratt, Kansas City, Mo.

Colonel Wm . P. Campbell, Little Rock, Ark.

Colonel Jno. P. Hickman, Nashville, Tenn.

Thos. S. Logwood, Lexington, Ky.

W. E. Mickle, Mobile, Ala.

Major R. E. Wilson, Spring Place, Ga.

Colonel Fred. L. Robertson, Brooksville, Fla.

F. B. Henderson, Aiken, S. C.

Colonel E. D. Hall, Wilmington, N. C.

Colonel E. T. Sykes, Columbus, Miss.

Maj Albert Akers, Washington, D. C.

The committee will meet subject to the call of the chairman.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding .
Geo. Mookman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff,

€OMMITTEE ON PENSION FOR MRS. DAVIS AND ON CONSTI-
TUTION AND BY-LAWS.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La., August 13, 1892.

General Orders No. 74.

The general commanding hereby makes the following appoint-
ment of members of the Virginia Division, in addition to those already
appointed in General Orders Nos. 59 and 60, current series, from
these headquarters, to wit:

To serve on the committee to memorialize the Governors and
Legislatures of the States and Territories which Comprised the late
Confederate States, to pension Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis:

Gen. Alex. W. Archer, Richmond, Va.

United Confederate Veterans. 175

To serve on Committee on Constitution and By-Laws:
Gen. E. M. Henry, Norfolk, Va.
By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding.
Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

HISTORICAL COMMITTEE AND ON SOUTHERN SCHOOL

HISTORY.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La., August 13 1892.

Genkral Orders No. 75.

The general commanding hereby appoints the following commit-
tee; as directed by a unanimous vote of the convention of delegates
assembled at New Orleans, La., on April 8 and 9, 1892, as a "Histor-
ical Committee, and on Southern School History" to formulate a plan
to secure a true and reliable history of the late civil war, and to
select a proper and truthful history of the United States to recom-
mend for use in the public and private schools of the South:

Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, chairman; Sewanee, Tenn.
Prof. J. N. Stubbs, Woods' Crossroads, Gloucester Co., Va.
Prof. Alonzo Hill, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee, Starkville, Miss.
Major Gen. Ellison Capers, Columbia, S. C.
Col. H. L. Bentley, Abilene, Texas.
Prof. J. W. Nicholson, Baton Rouge, La.
By order of

J. B. GORDON,

Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

General Commanding.

COMMITTEE TO AID MAIMED AND HELPLESS COFEDERATE
SOLDIERS AND THEIR WIDOWS.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, )
New Orleans, La., August 20, 1892. j

General Orders No. 76.

The general commanding hereby makes the following appoint-
ments in conformity with a resolution unanimously passed by "the
late convention of United Confederate Veterans held at New Orleans,

1 76 Committees.

La., April 8 and 9, 1892, as a committee whose duty it shall be to
memorialize the governors and legislatures of the several States and
Territories which Comprised the late Confederate States, (which have
not already done so) requesting that adequate provision be made for
maimed and helpless Confederate Veterans and their widows, to-wit:

Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton, chairman; Columbia, S. C.
Hon. Jno. W. Daniel, Richmond, Va.
Ex-Gov. Robt't Lowry, Jackson, Miss.
Ex-Gov. L. S. Ross, College Station Texas.
Ex-Gov. Jas. B. Eagle, Little Rock, Ark.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding.
Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

DATE NEXT REUNION.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans^ )
New Orleans, La., June 11, 1892. J

General Orders No. 62.

The general commanding announces that under the resolution
passed at the late reunion in New Orleans, leaving the date of the
next annual meeting and reunion, which is to be held in the city of
Birmingham, Ala., to the general commanding and the two depart-
ment commanders; they have unanimously agreed upon Wednesday
and Thursday, July 19 and 20, 1893, which date has been submitted
to our host at Birmingham and acquiesced in.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding.
Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

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MINUTES

OF THE

Fourth Annual Meeting
and Reunion

OF THE

United Confederate Veterans

HELD AT

Birmingham, Alabama,

On Wednesday and Thursday, April 25 and 26,

1894

JOHN B. GORDON, General Commanding
GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff

NOTICE.

The files in the office do not contain the original papers for
the Reunion held in Birmingham, Ala., in 1894, and in Houston,
Texas, in 1895. I have made diligent search, but have not been
able to find them.

Recognizing that there should be no break in the published
records of our Order, I went (by direction of the Commander-
in-Chief) to the city of Birmingham recently to copy from the
local papers the accounts of the proceedings as printed at the
time; and the result is now presented to the Camps.

I take this occasion to express my thanks to the editorial
and business management of both The Age-Herald and News.
Every courtesy was extended to me to accomplish my purpose,
and ever}' facility given. I am deeply grateful,

Wm. E. Mickle,

Adjutant General .
New Orleans, L,a., December 12, 1906.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

Fourth Annual Meeting and Reunion

OF THE

United Confederate Veterans,

HELD AT

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA,
Wednesday and Thursday, April 25th and 26th, 1894.

FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS, Wednesday, April 25th, 1894.

The time for the calling to order of the Fourth Annual
Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans was set for
nine o'clock. L,ong before this hour arrived thousands had
effected entrance into the wigwam, and by the time the hour
mentioned had arrived fully ten thousand people had found
seats, while there were still others who could not gain admission.
Upon the stage were seared General J. B. Gordon and staff, all the
Governors present and prominent ex -Confederates and other
personages of note.

A few minutes after nine o'clock, just outside of the wig-
wam, salutes were fired by cannon, and Gramb's Reunion Band
played "Dixie." The moment the first chord of this soul-
stirring air was touched hats went up, flags were waived, hand-
kerchiefs shaken and yells of joy from enthusiastic Confederates
and sympathizers in a common cause filled the air.

When the first tune of the Reunion was ended, Maj. Gen.

4 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

Fred. S. Ferguson felled the gavel upon the table, and the meet-
ing of the Fourth Annual Reunion of Confederate Veterans was
called to order.

General Ferguson stated that in the name of everybody, he
extended to the old soldiers a soldier's welcome, and asked that
they take the best that they found in the tent. After extending
this welcome, he asked the audience to rise; and the opening
prayer was offered by Assistant Chaplain -General J. Wm. Jones,
D. D., in the absence of the Chaplain -General.

Dr. Jones, in calling the blessings upon this meeting, said
jn a fervent manner :

"Heavenly Father! we ask that Thy blessings be upon us to-dav as
we are gathered together in this Reunion. We thank Thee that Thy
blessings were over us in battle, and we thank Thee that Thy blessings
are over us here to-day. We thank Thee that, while many have fallen
out of our ranks, so many of us remain to bless Thy name to-day. We
thank Thee that in the days that tried men's souls, we had men of courage
to fight for our cause. We thank Thee that there still remain the prin-
ciples of justice and truth that we fought for. We thank Thee that those
principles have been preserved, and that the Sons of Veterans to-day
maintain the principles of their fathers. Hear us and answer us, and be
with us in our Reunion, and grant that The God of Abraham, and of
Isaac and of Jacob, and the God of Jackson, and of Jonston, and of Lee
be with us in the days that are to come. We ask this all in Jesus' name.
Amen."

After prayer, General Ferguson introduced to the vast audi-
ence his Excellency, Gov. Thos. G. Jones, who for Alabama
extended the visiting Confederate Veterans a cordial welcome to
the confines of Alabama, and assured them that during their
stay they would be met with hospitality characteristic of true
soldiers. He said :

"Generals, Citizens and Countrymen: The proud honor has fallen to
my lot in behalf of Alabama to welcome you to her soil. But what is the
power of words compared to the deep feeling that wells up in our hearts
as we contemplate the grandeur and significance of this meeting! There
was never a time when the soil of Alabama did not throb when the feet of
a soldier pressed it. God bless the soldier in his old age! Some have
asked if it would not have been better if these Veterans who survived had
fallen in the paths of bravery while fighting for justice and right, and
avoided the temptations and trials of a later time; but if the career of the
Confederate soldier was grand in war, it has not surpassed his career in
times of peace. But the soldier in peace has been equal to the soldier
in war.

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 5

" We have not met here to-day in a spirit of apology or in a spirit of
condemnation. Every man who went into battle with a clean hand and
came out with a clean hand, went in as a brave man and came out as a
brave man, is our countryman.

"It seems but a dream, those thirty years, when the shadow of
Appomatox fell like a pall upon this land. We look into the eyes to-day of
men who followed the great commander who fell at Shiloh ; we look into
the eyes of men who heard the immortal words: See Jackson standing like
a stonewall. And as countrymen we meet here to-day in memory of a
lost cause.

" Your exercises are to be crowded, and I will not detain you longer.
I know I endorse the true sentiment of every man in Birmingham and in
Alabama when I say — Welcome! Thrice welcome! ! God bless the Con-
federate Veterans."

Mayor Fox was then introduced bjr General Ferguson to
extend to the visiting people a hearty, cordial and warm wel-
come to Birmingham — a city now, but unknown when the old
soldiers who are now assembled here were fighting for what they
thought to be right.

Mayor Fox, in extending to the Veterans Birmingham's
welcome and appreciation of their presence, said:

"Ladies, Commander-in-Chief and Members of the Confederate
Veterans' Association:- "It is, indeed, a most pleasant duty devolving
upon me as the executive head of our municipality, that of extending in
the name of our people a cordial welcome to the Veterans of the Confed-
eracy who honor us with their presence to-day. Your coming has been
looked forward to by our citizens as a distinguished honor to this young
citv of the mountains, which, in its pluck and enterprise, gives evidence
of that undaunted spirit which war's reverses and privations could not
diminish in a courageous people.

" From out the din and smoke of disastrous battle came the Veterans
to retrieve in peaceful fields the wrecked fortunes of our Southland.
Through heroic struggling they reared institutions that reflect the genius
of master minds, and have enchained the admiration of the civilized world
by their rapid and progressive strides to a grand and lasting prosperity.

' ' Birmingham is one of the outgrowths of this spirit and these
labors of the Veterans. The brain of a Veteran projected the city, the
brawn of Veterans built it, and in dire calamity their patriotism preserved
it; and to-day we want the Veterans to feel that they own the city free
from all incumbrance.

"Our people are with you in sentiment and sympathy, and in the
rekindling of the memories of the great struggle through which you
passed, join with you in the tributes of a loving people to the heroes
whose lives paid the penalty of devotion to principle, and add thereto our
assurances of affection for the gallant men, many of whom meet us here

6 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

to-day, spared by a kindly fate to redeem their country and their homes
from the gloom and unhappiness of despair.

"Again, I bid you a hearty and loving welcome to our city, homes
and firesides." [CHEERS.]

GENERAL GORDON.

Wild yells went up when General Gordon's name was pro-
nounced by General Ferguson. Banners were flung to the breeze
as L,ee Camp of Richmond, Va., entered the hall at this moment,
with two drummer boys at their head. The din and applause
was such that for full five minutes General Gordon could not
speak. He said:

" My Confederate Brothers and Confederate Sisters : It is my pleasure
to respond to the hearty welcome just given us by this grand old State. I
wish to assure the Governor of Alabama that the followers of those
immortal men to whom he has referred are ready to meet with him in his
cordial memory of those immortal dead. Yes; here are the men who fol-
lowed L,ee and Jackson and Johnston, and all the leaders who have made
the pages of American history what the}- are.

" In one sense, my brethren, I am not the man to respond to a wel-
come from Alabama, for in that sense I am an Alabamian myself, and feel
that it would be more proper for me to stand with her Governor and
extend to the brave men of other States her welcome rather than to receive
it; and, on the other hand, I am perhaps of all living men the proper
one to make this response, because no living man is more indebted to
Alabama than I am. It was among the mountains of Alabama that I first
heard the voices that called us to battle. It was an Alabama regiment
which I led, or rather wdiich led me, into that bloody fray, and made
principles when it swept over the frowning breastworks and left death
upon the fields. We all have a right to feel thankful and be proud of all
Alabama to-day. We can lay our tributes at her feet for her welcome.
Alabama's name is enough to endear her to our hearts. In the first place,
she is composed of seven letters, which is a lucky number. Four of the
letters are the first letter of the alphabet. You may look at her from the
front or behind, and she still stands at the head of the list; and if Ala-
bama should have any trouble in selecting a governor we will furnish her
all the candidates she wants. [Laughter.]

" The iron of her mountains, the rich soil of her black belt, and the
timber of her sunny coast, place her in the front ranks of our Southland.

" Since our last meeting many of our comrades have fallen from the
ranks into that last sleep of rest. Kirby Smith has gone, and that sturdy
Roman, Jubal Early, has followed him; Vance and Colquitt, soldiers and
statesmen, have joined the Confederate ranks beyond the grave.

" In conclusion, I wish to return the thanks of all these brave men
to this great State, whose hospitality is as limitless as the air around us."

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 7

General Gordon sat down amid loud cheers, and the band
played the Bonnie Blue Flag. He then took the chair as Com-
mander-in-Chief, and announced that the Fourth Annual
Reunion was ready for business.

General Watts, of Texas, arose and presented General
Gordon with a gavel as a testimonial of respect from the Trans -
Mississippi Department.

In accepting it, General Gordon said:

"That the wood of which the gavel was made was no more inde-
structible than the sentiments of the donors who followed the fortunes
of war.",

Maj. Gen. Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General, then began
calling the roll of Camps, when he was interrupted b}r the adop-
tion of a resolution, calling for the appointment of a Committee
on Credentials, consisting of one from each State and from the
District of Columbia and Indian Territory.

The Chair at once appointed the committee.

A motion was then made that a committee be appointed by
the Chair to which shall be referred all resolutions unread, sav-
ing the caption. An amendment was offered that all resolutions
be read in full to the Convention, before going to the commtttee.
The amendment was voted down, and the resolution adopted.
The Chair appointed the Committee, with Col. J. Taylor Ellyson,
of Richmond, as chairman.

Owing to the confusion and noise, it was decided, on
motion, that all business be dispensed with until sergeants -at -
arms had been stationed at the posts in the wigmam to keep
order. Camp Hardee, of Birmingham, furnished these officers
at once.

Gen. John C. Underwood, of Chicago, was recognized by
the Chair. General Underwood called attention to the Confed-
erate Monument erected in Chicago at a cost of $100,000.00, and
concerning which the United States Senate has now under con-
sideration the dedication of four cannon and balls captured during
the late war.

[At the rear of the wigwam had been placed a cast of the
bronze statue from the original in Chicago. At a signal, Miss
A. P. Hill unveiled the statue, and the band played "Dixie."
Everybody yelled, threw up their hats, rapped canes and waived
handkerchiefs.]

8 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

He then explained the situation of this grand monument
erected at a considerable cost to the memory of the Confederate
dead in the cemetery at Chicago. Continuing, he paid General
Cabell and daughter high tribute for the manner in which they
had faithfully worked for this monument.

General Cabell arose, and said he hoped the Camps would
contribute liberally to this monument. He alluded in passionate
terms to a monument more lasting still. " I warrant the Trans -
Mississippi Department will come up all right. I will start the
ball rolling at $10.00 myself. Let the Sons and Daughters of
the South help us in this work."

General Underwood stated that the pedestal of the Chicago
statue was made of old Georgia granite.

Donations to the monument were subscribed at a rapid rate,
and great confusion resulted. " We must have silence," said
General Gordon; and, on motion, it was decided to discontinue
taking subscriptions.

The report of the Committee on Credentials was presented
and adopted.

A motion to adjourn to 2 o'clock was offered, but voted
down.

General Stephen D. Lee, chairman, then read report of the
Historical Committee as follows :

(This report was printed in pamphlet form shortly after the
adjournment of the Convention, and mailed to each of the
Camps— Win. E. Mickle, Adjutant General.)

When General Lee finished reading the report, amid thunders
of applause, Dr. J. Wm. Jones arose, and made an enthusiastic
speech with the view of having true histories of the South
written. He offered the following, which was unanimously
adopted :

"Resolved, That the present Committee on History be continued,
with power to fill vacancies in the members, and with instructions to
recommend such other histories as may from time to time be published
and shall come up to the high standard we have adopted ; and that the
committee shall do everything in its power to encourage the preparation
of suitable histories, and especially to encourage their publication by the
building up of Southern publishing houses, which shall be able and will-
ing to publish such histories."

The Convention then adjourned to 3 o'clock this afternoon.

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

AFTERNOON'S PROCEEDINGS.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 25, 1894.

Before the business of the afternoon session was taken up,
Dr. W. J. McMurray, of Nashville, presented General Gordon
with a cane, made from straight hickory out of a Tennessee
hickory thicket. It was cut, dressed and put in shape by a one-
legged soldier, and was presented by a one-armed one, with a
soldier's wish for success and happiness. General Gordon
returned suitable thanks.

Senator James H. Berry, of Arkansas, was kept at home by
official duties, and could not make the address that was expected.
General Clement A. Evans, of Georgia, was called, and made an
excellent address, which set fire to the hearts of the "old
boys," and of which the following is a synopsis:

" You will remember that the young men in the days gone by, leav-
ing their homes in the various States, rushed to the front, with and with-
out arms, and were united for a series of years, protracted by reason of
our valor, until at last we came to separate in sorrow, separated by reason
of defeat; but every true Southern man feeling that in the separation there
was no breach for brotherhood, and in defeat there was no dishonor for
the soldier.

"The Confederacy has been the thought of most of you, of most of
the people of our great section. Though extinct as a political power, still
the sacred sentiment of patriotism which inspired it lives. I do not think
anv circumstances can arise which will kill that feeling in Southern
hearts. We are true as men to all the principles of our government; we
are loyal to every part of the Constitution ; we are believers in the popular
form of government, such as we have to-day under our present Constitu-
tion ; we arc true to every impulse of good government — but our trueness
does not interfere with our rights as Confederates. When Southern men
cease to be true to the principles that our fathers asserted, when they cease
to love their States, when Southern men cease to love our lovely Southern
women, and Southern women cease to be lovely, when these things come
to pass, then this Confederate sentiment will die, and liberty will find
its grave.

"There is no nation on the earth that has left such a heritage to the
world as this nation. It arose unstained by a crime, and died without
having lost its purity or stamped dishonor upon its name. Other nations
have died, and not one single note of their music is to be heard, but
" Dixie " is heard in every land, upon every tongue."

10 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

The speaker was loftiest in his assertions of love for the old
Confederate soldier ; he said that he had a heart big enough to
include them all. It was impossible to tell how much he did
love his comrades. He would be delighted to give each of them
a warm grasp of the hand, and show to each the warm beatings
of his heart. They were growing fewer and fewer as the years
went by, yet the sentiment that bound them together gathered
fresh strength as time passed on.

It was proper and fitting that the Confederate soldier should
see that true and correct histories of the war should be prepared,
that the young people of the South should know the true atti-
tude of their fathers, and not grow to look upon them as traitors,
or as men engaged in an effort to disrupt the government. The
books that they read should be prepared with a view of vindicating
the part their fathers took in the mighty struggle. There was a
glory about the lost cause which emblazoned it in a new light.
The principles for which the war was waged still live, and man-
kind has been made better for the recognition of them.

There were many moist eyes throughout the vast crowd
when the speaker made reference to the love existing between
himself and General J. B. Gordon; and when that soul-stirring
instance from Holy Writ wherein the souls of David and Jonathan
portray their depth of feeling for each other.

This gives but a faint conception of the grandeur and power
of this magnificent address. It was made to the " Men of the
Sixties;" and the enthusiastic way in which it was received
showed that they appreciated and treasured every word.

General Gordon, deeply moved, made suitable reply.

General A. P. Stewart was introduced, and made an
extended talk upon the proposed Chattanooga and Chickamauga
Military Park. He spoke at length upon the manner in which
Congress had dealt with the matter, and urged the appointment
of commissioners from each State to visit these fields, and mark
the places of battles and commands. He urged these Veterans
to go to Chattanooga, and visit these fields during the present
Reunion.

The Convention then adjourned to Thursday morning, April
26, at 9:30 o'clock.

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 11

SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS, Thursday, April 26th, 1894,

At 9:40 o'clock the gavel fell, and General Gordon
announced that the session would be opened with prayer by
Assistant Chaplain -General J. Wm. Jones, D.D., who said:

"We invoke thy presence. Oh God! for we would not engage in
anything that we could not ask thy blessing. We thank Thee for this
pleasant Reunion ; we thank Thee for the privilege of taking old com-
rades by the hand, and for the pleasant intercourse we experience here
to-day. We pray Thee that nothing may occur to mar the pleasure of this
meeting. God bless the Confederate Veterans; God bless their widows
and orphans; God bless all that has been done to take care of them in
their need, and all that may be done; God grant that the record made by
the Veterans in the war, and the still greater record they have made in
peace, may be blessed.

"God grant that we may return to our homes better prepared to
praise Thy name. Hear us, and answer us; pardon, sanctify and save us;
we beg for Jesus' sake. Amen."

A gentleman from South Carolina stated that there was a
Federal soldier in the audience who, by careful nursing, saved the
life of a brave Confederate ; and he moved that this gentleman
be brought to the platform. The motion was unanimously
adopted ; and Mr. Milstead, of Ohio, was escorted to the platform.

Colonel J. Taylor Ell3rson, of Richmond, read the report of
what was being done towards erecting the Jefferson Davis
Monument.

General Cabell asked that all Camps take an interest in this
monumental undertaking, headed by General Underwood, and
see that the money that had been subscribed be sent at once to
the treasurer at Richmond.

General W. H. Jackson, in an eloquent manner introduced
General Miller, the Department Commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, of Alabama. Furthering his eloquent speech,
he spoke of the manner in which General J. B. Gordon saved
the life of General Francis C. Barlow.

Commander Miller presented to General Gordon in the
manner typical of an American soldier a cane cut from the place
which is now known as " Bartow's Hill."

General Gordon, in accepting the cane, said:

" General Miller, it would be idle for me to attempt to express in
words what I feel upon this presentation. I can only say that in that war
there did never come into my breast or into the breasts of anv of these

12 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

brave men here to-day a single feeling of animosity, but that they were
inspired by that one word duty — only duty. And now looking back over
that war, I can say, and I know I express the sentiment of all these Vet-
erans, that it matters not what flag a soldier followed, it matters not what
uniform he wore, since he was there through a conviction of duty and
consciousness of the call of his country had inspired him, and he was
willing to lay down his life at the call of duty. As such we welcome you
here to-day. I welcome you as a one-time foe, but now a friend; and I
stand to pledge to you the loyalty of as brave a people as the sun ever
shone upon. And now. sir, in behalf of this brotherhood, I bid you most
hearty welcome."

At this juncture, some one found a pocket-book, and handed
it to General Gordon, who said : ' ' Another Trophy of Honesty. ' '

General Underwood stated that the Committee on Constitu-
tion were ready to make a report. After one or two sections had
been read, a motion was made to postpone action till the next
meeting.

General Underwood said that the work of the committee
was hard, and he knew what it takes to get through with such
business. He insisted that .the admendments be adopted.

General Waul advocated a postponement.

General W. H. Jackson spoke upon the adoption of the
report.

Numbers of protests against adoption came from the Louis-
iana Division.

A motion was made, and defeated, to consider the report
by sections.

The motion to adopt the Constitution as a whole unread was
adopted almost unanimously, the Louisiana members still voting
loudly " No."

A motion was made that a committee be appointed to select
officers for the coming year, which was adopted.

The Committee on Resolutions reported favorabty upon
marking the lines occupied by Southern troops on every battle-
field in which they participated. Approved.

They recommended that the Chair be instructed to appoint,
if he see fit, a committee of three to send greetings of the United
Confederate Veterans to the Grand Army of the Republic, and
invite them to hold their next Reunion at Atlanta, Ga., as Atlanta
has invited them to do so. This brought forth a heated discussion.
Chaplain -General J. Wm. Jones was opposed most decidedly to

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this step. F. H. Bushell, of South Carolina, said that there
should not be such display of animosity. E. C. Gordon, a
brother of General J. B. Gordon, begged for harmony and urged
that no bitterness be manifested. W. H. Burgoyne, of North
Carolina, begged that the resolution be adopted. The recom-
mendation of the Resolution Committee was then put, and adopted.

General W. H. Jackson, from the committee to nominate
officers for the coming year, submitted the following:

Commander-in-Chief, J. B. Gordon.

Commander Army Northern Virginia Department, General
Fitzhugh L,ee.

Commander of Army Tennessee Department, General
Stephen D. Lee.

Commander of Trans-Mississippi Department, General W.
D. Cabell.

And all were unanimously elected.

General Gordon, with tears in his eyes, said:

" Comrades, I have no language at my command capable of convey-
ing to you the sentiment which wells up in my heart at this honor you
have given me. It had been my purpose to retire from this office and
leave it to some one worthier than myself. [Voices: Couldn't be found.]
I accept the honor, comrades, with all the love and loyalty to you and
your cause that ever throbbed a Southern heart. I want to say one or
two things before I take my seat. I won't detain you long. [Voices:
Go on ; go on.]

"In my opinion, and this opinion is based upon long thought and
investigation of history and inquiry, there never existed in the history of
the world, and there may never exist in the history of the world an army
that from a standpoint of courage and in other particulars, equalled the
Confederate Army. Whether led by great leaders or not, whether thirsty
or hungry or haggard, they marched into the gloom with a courage
unparalleled in the hisiory of all the ages that have passed. That reminds
me of an occasion when a one-legged old Confederate Veteran had been
discharged on account of the loss of his leg. He went into a prayer-
meeting where Brother Brown was leading in prayer ; and in the course of
that prayer Brother Brown said: ' Heavenly Father, we pray Thee to
give us more courage in this strife that is now going on; give us more
manhood!' Then, this old soldier cried out, unable to contain himself
any longer: ' Hold on. Brother Brown, hold on there; you are all wrong.
Pray for more ammunition and provisions ; we have manhood and courage
enough.' [Laughter and Cheers.]

"Every man of that Army was a hero, and willing to march to the
front and win victories, whether he had a leader or not. May God care
for and protect each of these Confederates to the day of his death. The
man who marched into the front of battle made the leaders and the
generals. God go with you when you leave here, and remain with you

14 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

through the days that are to be yours. May his bright skies co^er you,
and his sunlight gladden your old hearts through those days."

All the others elected made speeches of appreciation.

On motion of General S. D. Lee, it was decided to select the
place for holding the Fifth Annual Reunion.

General John W. A. Sanford nominated Houston, Texas.

Mr. Kittrell presented the invitation, bearing the great seal
of the city of Houston.

Colonel W. L,. Calhoun asked the Veterans to honor Atlanta
with their presence.

Colonel J. Taylor Ellyson begged that Richmond might have
the pleasure of welcoming the United Confederate Veterans, and
he was seconded by Mr. Inglesby, of South Carolina.

A long discussion followed, when Colonel Ellyson withdrew
Richmond in favor of Houston ; and that city was unanimously
selected.

General Underwood then advanced to General Cabell and
presented him with a handsome medal, inscribed "To General
W. L. Cabell, J. C. U.," saying:

General Cabell , I offer you this medal because of your
services to our people, and as an expression of the appreciation
in which you are held."

General Cabell, completely overcome, replied: " General, I
don't know what to say. In the war, I was never taken by sur-
prise. A man never got through my pickets without a fight ; but
now I am like the old woman in the Camp meeting — ' I am too
full to be heard.' "

The Tennessee Division then presented General Gordon with
a sash, to be worn in the parade, for which he thanked them.
"Put it on. Put it on," came from all parts of the house.
Whereupon, he said : " All right. Anything to please the boys,"
and immediately put it on.

Mr. H. C. Fairman presented General Mike J. Bulger to the
Convention, the oldest Confederate in the State of Alabama, who
was over 90. He manifested the deepest emotion, and said in a
very feeble voice: "Comrades, this is the happiest day of my
life. To be honored this way in my declining years is an honor
which will never die."

General Gordon presented William Gaunt, the Negro who
nursed General Albert Sidney Johnston when wounded, and
cared for him when he was ill. ,

The Commander-in-Chief adjourned the Fourth Annual
Reunion Convention sine die.

APPENDIX.

ADDRESS

GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE,

the laying of the corner-stone of the monument to

the Confederate Dead at Birmingham,

Aea., Aprie 26, 1894.

My Friends: We have assembled hereto-day to discharge
a glorious and solemn duty — to lay the corner-stone of a monu-
ment, which shall commemorate the valor of the living and the
dead. We have met to keep alive the memories of our comrades
who fell in battle — that vast army of heroes and patriots — and to
renew the ties of friendship between the gray- haired survivors,
who were their comrades in the four years' struggle from 1861 to
1865. When we praise them, we glorify ourselves; when we
speak of their invincible courage, of their heroic sacrifices, we
feel a thrill of pride that we shared the same privations and the
same perils. We moved in the same line of battle, and braved
the same showers of shrapnell and minie balls ; we charged the
same breastworks ; we heard the echoes of the same artillery and
the rattle of the same musketry. The bullet that took one of
them whistled by us when it took him, and from our throats went
the same "rebel yell" that bade defiance to our foes. We
shared or went without the same scanty rations, endured the same
fatiguing march, the same chilling rain. We did all that they
did, except it was theirs to die for their country.

Loyalty to the past is a duty. Feeling that we were right,
we staked all on the uncertain chances of battle, and we lost.
We were overpowered, and we had to submit to the result; but
we cannot be otherwise than proud of the history we made
while a nation. We are here to-day, not to praise the victorious,
but to claim imperishable renown for the vanquished.

When we look backward from the zenith of life we see things
with a clearer vision. We see many causes that brought on the

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struggle. Slavery, the indirect cause of the war, the North is
as much responsible for as the South. As to the doctrine of
" States' Rights " — the right of a sovereign State to withdraw
from the Union the question is decided forever against us. If
we are not convinced, we are quieted; we accept the inevitable
with such grace as we can, but we cannot blot it from our recol-
lections. We cannot }7ield the belief in the principles we inher-
ited from our revolutionary forefathers. We fought for what
they did, but they had better luck. War was forced on us.
Constitutional and sacred guarantees agreed on in the Union of
sovereign States were trampled under foot, under the theory
promulgated by Mr. Seward, and accepted by the North, of a
"higher law than the Constitution." We were invaded, and
were forced to defend our hearthstones and our property and the
inherited right of local self-government bequeathed us by our
forefathers. We need no justification for our conduct. It is a
universal law that a man should defend his own. We did that,
and that only. We would have deserved to be trampled on if
we had not resisted. See how gloriously we did it; look at our
record. Never did a nation contend against such odds. I defy
contradiction. Read for yourselves the war records now being
honestly published by our government.

My young fellow-countrymen, }roung gentlemen, young
ladies, listen to me — }7ou, who have lived since the war and have
only heard of it from others, learn now what this monument, the
corner-stone of which is now to be laid, is intended to com-
memorate. Look at those gray-haired Veterans. Who are
the}7? I will tell you. They are some of the survivors of an
army of 600,000 men, who fought and kept back from our
Southern soil an invading army of 2,804,272 men (not including
three and six mouths volunteers) ; or, with the odds of 2,264,272
men more than they had to confront them. To these great odds
must be added 600 vessels of war blockading our coasts and
occupying our rivers, manned by 35,000 sailors, preventing our
getting supplies of arms, provisions, clothing, medicines and
necessaries of all kinds. In this unequal contest, the Confed-
erate Army did not lay down its arms until it was completely
overpowered, and had only 100,000 effective fighting men for
duty in the field left of that army of 600,000 men, while the

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Federals had over 1,000,000 men for duty, or ten men for every
Confederate soldier, and all our arsenals, munitions of war and
supplies exhausted or captured.

Before the end of the conflict the Confederate Army had
lost over one-half of the 600,000 men, or 325,000 men on the
death-roll. It had fought over our beloved Southland almost
foot by foot, on nearly two thousand battle-fields. It had inflicted
a death-roll on the enemy of 359,528 men, 275,000 of whom lie
buried beneath our Southern soil. Comrades of the gray, we
made a record unsurpassed in the annals of war or histor3T.

Let us go a little more into details. In the bloodiest of
European wars, statistics show that the number killed or mor-
tally wounded on the battle-field has not exceeded three per
cent, of the soldiers actually engaged, while in the great Amer-
ican War between the States, the Federals lost five per cent, and
the Confederates ten per cent. We see that the American soldier
stands ahead of the European soldier, and that in heroic aspect.
So long as the Confederate banner floated to the breeze, the Con-
federate soldier stands at the head in the history of the world.
The more the facts connected with the war are brought out, the
more honor is reflected on the valor, endurance of hardships and
fortitude of the soldiers of the Confederacy.

Tell me we did not believe our cause a just one ! No people
could have made such a fight, could have stood up so long against
such odds, had they not been actuated by a firm and unwavering
adherence to the principles of self-government, and a determi-
nation to maintain inalienable rights which they had inherited
from their forefathers.

This is said in no boastful spirit, but to show what a
gallant resistance was made by the South, actuated by a lofty
patriotism, before the flag was furled forever. We who
participated can hardly believe the incredible figures. Our
own children, when they comprehend them, will stare in
wonder, and say, "Impossible!" If, on every monument we
have erected in the South, only these figures are put, the num-
bers composing the Federal Army and the few Confederates who
opposed them, it would need nothing else. But every Confed-
erate accepted the result of the war as final and in good faith ;

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and we rejoice that the men who fought so well on both sides,
believing they were right, are again reunited under the flag of
their forefathers, which covers our common country.

My comrades, when we see desolation ever}- where ; when we
feel dismayed at our broken fortunes and disappointed hopes ;
when we know life means for us only toil, poverty and priva-
tions until the end — go and read that record. When we feel that
we have made poor crops, and mortgages and debts have pressed
upon us ; when we feel utterly discouraged and cast down — go
and read our record. You will rejoice that there is a county
where honor is first, not wealth ; where patriotic endeavor and
duty are everything, riches only a secondar}7 consideration.
Thank God! there are such men — those who have been, and
those who are now. I uncover my head with reverence in honor
of our comrades, living and dead, who bore the proud title oJ
Confederate soldiers. I rejoice that we raise this monument to
the memory of such heroes. It is an irresistible impulse of
homage to their voluntary . immolation on the altar of their
countr}7. It is to perpetuate their stainless name and untarnished
honor. It is that our children may thrill with the thought that
they are descended from such a race.

As we lay this corner-stone and leave others to finish our
work, so may the blood of our martjrrsbe the seed of such a race
in the future. May they take up our life-work of loyalty to our
reunited country as we lay it down, and crown it with success
worthy of their forefathers. What higher praise can a man have
than is conveyed in the word Confederate Soldier? Palsied
be the tongue that would cast a slur upon his memory; and
recreant is the son who does not glory in such a sire !

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REPORT

OF THE

Quarter- Master General.

Chattanooga, Tenn., April 25, 1894.

GeneralJ. B. Gordon, Commanding United Confederate Veterans:

My Dear General — It becomes my very pleasant duty to
submit to you and to our fellow -comrades my report as Quarter-
Master General of the United Confederate Veterans. Therefore,
I will very respectfully state, since my last report made to you
at our most delightful meeting held in the city of New Orleans,
April 8 and 9, 1892, the duties of this Department have been
largely increased by reason of the large accession of Camps to
our ranks.

During the past year I worked up and secured special trans-
portation rates for two meetings (both of which were postponed,
and, as I believe, for good reasons), during which time I com-
municated with all the Camps, both by letter and circular notice-
first, announcing rate for the proposed meeting on July 19 and 20,
and again for the proposed change and meeting of a later date ;
also in regard to the proposed Chicago excursion. The fact that
some of the competing lines this side of the Ohio River did not
look upon the proposed excursion with favor and the additional
fact that the Southern Passenger Association would only give a
five-day limit on Reunion tickets, greatly embarrassed the pro-
posed excursion, and led to much correspondence.

As the custodian of our society badge, I wish to state, since
my last report and up to the first of January, 1894, I have fur-
nished to the various Camps 538 gold-plated and 441 solid gold
badges. Many of the Camps have ordered badges in the past
sixty days, but I have notified them of the proposed change in
the design, and advised that they withhold their orders until
after this meeting.

22 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

The question of protecting our society badge for the exclusive
use of members belonging to the United Confederate Veterans
has long been a subject of much concern to this Department.
Immediately upon the adoption of the present design at our
second Reunion held in Jackson, Miss., I began to try and have
the badge covered by copyright, but found it could not be
obtained. At the meeting in New Orleans in April, 1892, Com-
rade W. T. Cluverius submitted a resolution that the badge be
exchanged bjT reducing it in size one -sixteenth of an inch, and
that the letters U. C. V. be inscribed upon the face, and that the
same be covered by copj'right. The resolution went to the
Committee on Resolutions, upon which they reported recom-
mending that the Quarter -Master General be directed to have the
letters U. C. V. added to the badge, provided the same could
thereby be protected by cop3Tright; otherwise, no change should
be made. The report of the committee was adopted by the
Convention.

On my return home from the New Orleans meeting, I again
applied to the Congressional Librarian to have the badge with
the proposed change covered by copyright, but was informed it
could not be protected through that department. I then took the
matter up with the Commissioner of Patents, and also wrote
the congressman from my district to aid me in the matter. After
a most thorough investigation and long correspondence I learned
it could not be covered by patent. Some months later I was
informed by the party whom I got to manufacture the badges that
he thought he could have it patented, and that if so he would
assign it to me for the exclusive use of the United Confederate
Veterans, provided I would give him the exclusive manufacture
of the badges for the United Confederate Veterans, to which I
agreed, conditioned that none were to be furnished any one except
upon an order from the Quarter -Master General of the United
Confederate Veterans, and that he should make them in com-
petition, both in price and quality, with any other manufacturers.
After some months he informed me he could not get it patented.
Having exhausted all possible hope of getting the present design
protected, I went to work to get up something I thought would
be acceptable and could be patented for our exclusive use. I
called to my aid the artistic genius of N. B. Forrest Camp,

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Major L. T. Dickinson; and now take pleasure in submitting
two original designs, one for the exclusive use of the United
Confederate Veterans and one for the exclusive use of the United
Confederate Veterans' Auxiliary Association, both of which are
available for protection by patent.

The latter badge I designed in anticipation of the action of
the Convention, in perfecting some practicable and acceptable
basis for admitting the descendants of worthy Confederate Vet-
erans to our Association, that they may aid us in carrying on the
great work we have before us, of transmitting to rising genera-
lions the truth of history, the heroic deeds and valor of their
ancestors, to relieving the distress of our worthy comrades and
rescuing from oblivion the names of our heroic dead. I can fur-
nish either of the new designs, covered bjr patent for the exclus-
ive use of our members and auxiliaries, made up of first-class
material and workmanship, at fifty cents for the gold-plated and
a dollar each for the gold. The margin in the badges at those
prices will pay for handling, and meet the expenses of this
Department.

In conclusion, I wish to thank the passenger agents of the
various transportation lines in the South for courtesies extended
this Department — our comrades and friends.

With great respect, I am, 3rours very truly and fraternally,

J. F. SHIPP,

Quarter- Master General United Confederate Veterans.

Picket's History of Alabama ,

Baldwin's Flush Times,

Meek's (A. B.) Poems of the South,
Meek's Red Eagle,

Meek's Romantic Passages.

WANT

Baldwin's Party Leaders,

Claiborne's Life Sam Dale,

Ramsay's History South Carolina,
Confederate Money,

Paroles, Furloughs, Books,

Newspapers, Music.

Gen'l Dick Taylor's Destruction and Reconstruction,
Histories of any State,

Histories of any Country,

Books about the Civil War,
Old Maps or Pictures,

Autographs of any Noted

Man or Woman.

BUY

Clement's Mustang Gray, Bernard Lile. or the Rivals,
Thorpe's Mysteries of the Backwoods,

Thorpe's Tom Ochiltree.

Magazines as follows: Southern Bivouac, Land We Love,
DeBow's Review, Southern Historical Society Papers,
Literary Messenger, Niles' Register.

FOR CASH

Old Books and Magazines of all Kinds.

"Literary Junk" of every nature.

WRITE, WITH STAMP, TO

WM. E. MICKLE,

BOOKSELLER
Mobile, Alabama

REPORT

OF THE

.^Confederate^
Historical Committee

WHICH WAS

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED AT THE

x IS ^

^ ANNUAL **

HELD AT

Birmingham, Ala., April 25 and 26, 1894

J. B. GORDON, General Commanding

GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff

NEW ORLEANS

Schumert & Warfield, Ltd., 414-418 Camp St.

REPORT

OF THE

United Confederate Veteran Historical Committee

WHICH WAS

UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED AT THE

FOURTH ANNUAL REUNION

HELD AT

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., APRIL 25th and 26th, 1894

A motion was made that the meeting adjourn until 2 o'clock
but it was lost, and Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Chairman of the His-
torical Committee, was recognized by the chair, and read the Report
of the Committee, which is as follows:

Birmingham, Ala., April 25, 1894.
Gen. George Moorman, Chief of Staff. United Confederate Veterans:

Dear Sir— The committee known as the Historical Committee
and on southern school history submits report as follows: ^^

It was organized under the following orders:

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La., Aug 13, 1892
General Orders No. 75.

The General Commanding hereby appoints the following com-
mittee, as directed by the unanimous vote of the convention of dele-
gates assembled at New Orleans, La., on April 8 and 9, 1892, as a
Historical Committee and on Southern School History," to formu-
late a plan to secure a true and reliable history of the late Civil
War, and to select proper and truthful histories of the United States
to recommend for use in the public and private schools of the South

Lieut.-Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Chairman, Sewanee, Tenn

Prof. J. N. Stubbs, Woods Cross Roads, Gloucester County Va

Prof. Alonzo Hill, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Lieut.-Gen. S. D. Lee, Starkville, Miss.

Maj.-Gen. Ellison Capers, Columbia, S. C.

•Col. H. L. Bentley, Abilene, Tex.

Prof. J. W. Nicholson, Baton Rouge, La.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,
George Moorman, General Commanding.

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Since the publication of the order two of the committee "have
crossed over the river" — one, our beloved, heroic and pure chair-
man, Gen. E. Kirby Smith., the last of the full generals of the Con-
federacy, the other, Prof. Alonzo Hill, equally as true and pure a
soldier, who entered the war as a priva'e and fought throughout the
four years' struggle. The death of these two comrades emphasizes
the importance of the work of this comrr.mittee. Soon all of us will
follow them in obedience to the great law of nature.

General order No. 1 1 8 designates as new members of the com-
mittee:

Prof. W. R. Garrett, Nashville, Term., vice General Smith,
deceased.

Gen. Clement A. Evans, Atlanta, Ga., vice Prof. Alonzo Hill,
deceased, and Lieut. -Gen. S. D. Lee is named as chairman of the
committee.

Your committee, after carefully investigating the matter, are
of the opinion that justice to the South imperatively demands a
different presentation of narrative of facts for the truth of history
of our common country. It is pa'nfully evident that while the
South, from the settlement of the first colony in Virginia to the.
present moment, has been a most important factor in making the
history of the United States, in increasing its area, in fighting its
battles and in controlling and governing, it has left the writing of
its history to Northern historians, many of whom have shown sec-
tional bias and prejudice in favor of the North, and none of whom
have fairly presented the sentiments and motives of the South.
From the earliest settlement of this country for near 250 years
there has been a gradual divergence and development of two civiliza-
tions, causing continual friction, and finally culminating in the great-
est war of modern times. Common interest held the colonies
and States together for a time, but the ties of union gradually
diverged, as one section grew and overbalanced in numbers and
wealth, and the constitutional rights and guarantees of the weaker
section, inherited in the written constitution, which wa; aJopted
after a successful union and revolution were trampled under foot
and finally brushed away by a successful war.

In the progress of the country, whether colonial, revoiutionary,
civil or military, these two elements of conflicting or opposing civili-
zations were ever present, generating partisan and sectional prejudices.

The South in all this time has no written history of her own.
While prominent in making history, she has carelessly permitted the
histories of the United States (general and school) to be written
by Northern men, who would scarcely have been human had they
not stamped the prejudices of their civilization and given undue
prominence to what was done by their section, to the omission and
corresponding fair statement of what was done by the South, from

the earliest colonial settlements to the close of the Revolutionary
War, and since that time (under fiercer prejudice and struggle in
the two contending civilizations) to the war between the States;
and in the record of that war, and the readjustment after the defeat
of the South. The written histories of the latter periods are So
unfair, so sectional and untrue, that it fails in the essence of history-
impartiality.

Your committee is deeply impressed with the fact that justice
has not been done the South in the written histories now extant,
and with rare exceptions, which exceptions your committee pro-
poses to note, those used in the public and private schools. Some
of these histories published since the war have been very offensive
and denunciatory of the whole South, coloring and misstating the
facts to such an extent as to have excluded them even from the
schools of the North. Many seeking introduction into the South
are carefully toned down 'and even show an effort to be fair in
speaking of our leaders, soldiers and people, but through everything,
to the critical reader and thinker, is the glaring fault of that sec-
tional and partial bias, which magnifies the North and minifies or
omits or disparages what was done by the South. This is especially
so in the treatment of the causes leading to the war between the
States, and of the war itself, and of the period after the war. The
whole story is unfair to such an extent that the South cannot per-
mit the record to stand as it is. Our self-respect as a people, con-
scious of the fact of inherited constitutional rights, purity of intent
and patriotic endeavor, demands that we give our verrion of that
history in which, as a people, we have played such an important
part in making. We owe it to our country and to our children
that we at least do this much. The culmination of sectional bias
was in the war between the States. To permit the historians of
the North to give their version of that great war without a parallel
presentation of facts relating to our understanding of the causes, our
motives, our aspirations, would not be becoming of a nation that
perished in its infancy in the most heroic struggle of any age. Its
overthrow, too, was marked by an honesty in accepting the results
without a parallel in history. The love of country is demonstrated
by this fact, and a determination to abide by the result, in the con-
sciousness that the United States is our country, and a determina-
tion to add to its glory and extend its power.

Fortunately there are great epochs or facts in the growth of the
colonies and of the United States, which assure justice to the South
in any calm and impartial narrative of the events which must make
up history. The spirit of the Southern colonies to the revolution
was broad and liberal, taking an active part in the general defense
against the Indians and in the French wars. The first battle of the

revolution was fought on Southern soil, and the signal for resistance
came from the South. The most critical and pressing period of the
Revolutionary War was carried on in the South, and in face of con-
tinued disaster. The devastation of war was nearly all on her soil.
A Southern colony furnished most men to the revolutionary armies,
and a Southern State finds a place in her soil for the bones of more
of the revolutionary soldiers than any other State. A Southern State
was the first to organize an independent State government. The
uniting of the thirteen revolting colonies under the articles of Con-
federation was only made possible by the self-sacrifice of Virginia,
who, to allay the fears of the smaller commonwealths, gave up her
large northwest territory to common ownership — did not sell it. The
Federal convention which gave us that greatest of all documents
ever drawn by the hand of man was presided over by a Southern
man, and owed most of its success to the brains of Southern mem-
bers, and finally, when the ship of State was launched, with singular
unanimity, a Southern hand was called to the helm.

With the exception of Alaska, no acquisition of territory has been
made except through the efforts of Southern statesmen, in opposition
to those of the North. It was Jefferson, who, by the purchase of
Louisiana, extended the domain of the United States to the Rockv
Mountains, notwithstanding the violent opposition and threats of
secession which came from the Northeast.. Oiegon, Florida, Cali-
fornia and Texas purchases and annexation extended her domain- to
the Pacific, when Southern men occupied the Presidential chair,
at a time when the North, blind to the future glory of the republic,
could only fix its gaze upon the fetish of slave extension. In every
war the national honor has been practically upheld by the South.
In the cause of the national government in 1812, New England
responded with the Hartford convention, looking to the dismember-
ment of the union.

In nothing has the South suffered so much as at the hands of
the writers of school history, as in the treatment of the subject of
State sovereignty, nullification, slavery and secession. Since the
success of Northern resources over Southern arms in the Civil War,
it has been the practice of Northern writes to isolate the period of
the war and either uphold the specific acts of the South in with-
drawing from the union, as a political ctime, using as a term of re-
proach the term rebellion, or to infer from the fact that Southern
independence was not maintained, that sece-sion was morally wrong.
The facts of American history must be made to speak lor them-
selves, however, and the true history robs the reproach of its sting
when it shows that the foundations of our present government were
laid in secession, the States moving in the matter, virtually seceding
from the "perpetual union" under the articles of Confederation,

that the structure of American independence was upreared in rebel-
lion, that subsequently every section of the country has at some time
threatened to secede, that the whole country and not the South alone
was responsible for slavery, the system prevailing in the North as
long as it was found profitable. That the slave trade was made
possible only by New England vessels manned by New England
crews.

The true cause of the war between the States was the dignified
withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union, to avoid the
continued breaches of domestic tranquility, guarantee'd but not con-
summated by the constitution, and not the high moral purpose of the
North to destroy slavery, which followed incidentally as a war
measure. As to the war itself and- the results of the war, the
children of the future would be astonished that a people fought so
hard and so long with so little to fight for, judging from what they
gather from histories now in use by writers from the North. They
are utterly destitute of information as to events leading to the war.
Their accounts of the numbers engaged, courage displayed, sacri-
fices endured, hardships encountered, and barbarities practiced upon
an almost defenseless people whose arms -bearing population was in
the army, are incorrect in every way.

A people who, for four long years, fought over almost every foot
of their territory, on over 2,000 battle fields, with the odds of
2,864,272 enlisted men against their 6oo,oco enlisted men and their
coasts blockaded and rivers filled with gunboats, with 600 vessels
of war manned by 35,000 sailors, and who protracted the struggle
until one-half of their soldiers were dead from the casualties of war,
had something to fight for. They fought for the great principle
of local self-government, and the privilege of managing their own
affairs, and the protection of their homes and firesides.

While the South would detract not an iota from the patriotic
motive and endeavor of those opposing them, she intends that the
truth of history shall be written by a sympathetic and friendly pen,
to give her credit for what their ancestors did, and for what was
done by the South in the war between the States. Also to chronicle
the results of that war and its effects upon the South and up >n
our common country. We therefore report and recommend :

A GENERAL HISTORY.

The order of the association creating this committee requires
us "to formulate a plan for securing a true and reliable history of
the late Civil War." In attempting to formulate this plan, the
committee has been led to examine the whole field of history. We
find, as has been heretofore set forth in this report, that justice to
the South requires that the entire field of history be explored and its
neglected facts be faithfully gathered and portrayed. We need a

"renaissance" of history throughout the South. We have looked
around for the best agency to effect this object.

What will be the most efficient agency? It must be a universal
agency, a continuing agency, an influential agency. It must be an
agency that can stimulate historical re:earch; create historical taste;
produce not only one work, but many works; employ not only one
mind, but many minds; make the work aisume various shapes, not
only in the form of standard histories and school histories, but also
State histories, magazine articles, historical essays, popular sketches,
local history, etc. It is unfortunately true that our people have neg-
lected history. They have not only neglected to write, but they
have neglected to read what is written. Historical ta;te and histor-
ical literature must assume various phases. There is a deplorable
lack of knowledge of State history and of local history. Here is
a mine rich in unexplored history and poetry. We need workers in
the held. Very few, even of our educated citizens have devoted
much attention to the histories of their respective States. This his-
tory, when developed, will touch the popular heart. No one mini
can explore this wide field, and no one work can cover the g ound.
We need a separate history for each State.

Besides, we do not wish to limit our work to the present time.
Can we not kindle a flame which will not burn out with the life of
our generation?

There is but one agency which can compass all the purposes, and
can add to these another of great value — that agency is our leading
Southern universities. They have the means, the prestige, the
appliances, the undying life. They could put work into immediate
operation, and continue it forever. We therefore suggest that the
association recommend the following plan: Every university in the
South to establish a chair of American history; that this chair be
not overloaded with additional work, but its occupant be allowed
leisure and be provided with appliances for historical investigation
and authorship; that the occupant of this chair be selected with
special reference to his fitness for h'storical authorship, and al o for
inspiring students with a spirit of original historical investigation;
that the chair of American history should include a comprehensive
course, embracing not only a history of the United States, but also
a history of the entire American continent and should be taught in
a manner to suit matured minds, and to lead them to original inves-
tigation. The inauguration of such a course in our Southern univer-
sities, leading to a full comprehension of the history, geography, and
relations of the various members of the American continent, would
give the coming generation of Southern youth a broad knowledge
which would bring to the South a benefit which need not be en-
larged on.

2. That the association recommend to the Legislature of the sev-
eral Southern States to provide, in the public school course, for
teaching the history of the native States one year, and aho for
teaching the history of the United States one year, and for the estab-
lishment and support of a chair of "American History" in the State
university, or in some suitable State institution; and also for en-
couraging the preparation of State school histories.

3. That the association recommend that all private schools and
academies make provision for teaching the history of the native State
one year, and the history of the United States one year.

4. That the association appoint suitable committees to memor-
alize the several Legislatures and authorities of universities and
schools and to request the co-operation of State historical societies,
State literary societies, the press, etc.

SCHOOL HISTORIES.

1. The importance of placing and teaching impartial and ac-
curate histories of the United States in all our schooL cannot be
overestimated nor exaggerated. With this end in view, at the for-
mer meeting of this committee, the following resolution was adopted:

"To select such of existing school histories as are truthful and
just in their statements in reference to the causes and facts of the
late war, and recommend the same fjr use in all our scho ds in order
of preference, if possible and practical."

2. In pursuance of this resolution your committee has grouped
all existing histories under three heads: (1) Those written and
published in the North pronounceJly unfair to the S uth, her insti-
tutions and her part in history; (2) those written and published in
the North apparently fair in their treatment of Southern questions;
(3) those written and published in the South.

GROUP I.

These works were for the most part issued in the first ten oF
fifteen years following the close of the late war, and reflect in full
the sentiment then generally prevailing over the Northern section of
our country. Dictated by prejudice and prompted by the evil pas-
sions that time had not then softened, they need not be considered
by the committee.

GROUP 2 NORTHERN HISTORIES APPARENTLY FAIR.

A number of the books belonging to group 1 have been either
(a) revised and emasculated in their eftort to curry favor with the
text-book patrons of both sections, or (b) separate editions made for
Northern and Southern Schools. To these have been added a num-

ber of works published in recent 3*ears, which, avoiding any positive
statement derogatory to the South, studiously suppress every fact of
American history upon which the justice of the Southern cause and
purity of motive of Southern political leaders are based, (c) His-
tories written and published at the North in which an honest effort
is made to do justice to the South. While some of these histories
contain many excellent features, they ignore many facts which the
South, as a section, takes a patriotic pride in, and they fail to present
the distinctive features of Southern civilization with force and fidel-
ity, or to give due prominence to the work done by the South as a
/actor in the union. We are gratified to note that several of these
histories have been revised so as to exclude objectionable expressions
and to include facts of history favorable to the South which have
heretofore been ignored, and we hope that the time is not far dis-
tant when writers of history from either section will take pride and
pleasure in presenting with cordiality and enthusiasm the distinctive
work of each section as a factor of our common country.

We believe that the records of the nation contain many neglected
facts of history which, when clearly presented, will not only justify
the motives and purposes of the South as a section, but will tend to
promote kindly feeling between the sections and to instill sentiments
of patriotism and mutual respect. For such reasons, wTe are un-
willing that facts of history of which the South has just right to be
proud, shall be omitted in the instruction of our children.

GROUP 3 SOUTHERN HISTORIES.

This group constitutes a small number of published works, which
have been examined with reference to the following poin's.

1. Is the historic value impaired by inaccuracy, or by an over-
drawn, exaggerated narrative of events, in which self-glorification
takes the place of calm statement of the whole truth, which alone is
necessary to support the position of the South in national affairs?

2. Do they compare in typographical appearance with other
attractive histories?

3. Are they practical teaching text-books?

4. In illustrations, do they give equal prominence to events and
individuals of the South as to those of the North?

5. In the treatment of the American revolution, do they do full
justice to the men of the South in the field and forum, and do they
make the point that the war was for independence and self-govern-
ment, and that the Southern people were animated by these princi-
ples in the last war?

6. Are the questions of sovereignty and slavery dispassionately
treated ?

J. Do they touch fully the importance and in most cases pre-
dominant part taken by Southern men in the revolution ; in the con-
stitutional convention; in shaping the affairs of the government; in
extending the domain of the United States to our present limits ; in
maintaining our national honor and credit abroad, and in properly
presenting the characteristics of Southern life and civilization?

8. Do they denominate the last war a "rebellion" instead of a
conflict between the States?

9. In giving a truthful narration of the events of the Civil War,
the unparallel patriotism manifested by the Southern people in ac-
cepting its results, and the courage and perserverance displayed by
them in building up their shattered homes and ruined estates?

In the opinion of this committee these are some of the most impor-
tant features necessary to an accurate and impartial history of the
United States. We are gratified to find that Southern people are
beginning to awaken to the importance of writing their own his-
tory, that a few Southern authors have prepared works for use in
the schools, which more or less embody the features above enu-
merated, viz. :

"Hansell's Histories," written by Prof. H. E. Chambers, of
Louisiana.

"History of the American People," written by J. H. Shinn, of
Arkansas.

"History of the United States," written by A. H. Stephens, of
Georgia.

"History of the United States," written by George F. Holmes,
of Virginia.

"History of the United States," written by Robert R. Harrison,
of Virginia.

"History of the United States," written by Blackburn & Mc-
Donald, Maryland.

"Grammar School History of the United States," written by L. A.
Field, of Georgia.

"History of the United States," by J. T. Terry, of Georgia.

Your committee cordially commend the zeal of the above authors
for the work already undertaken and done in the cause for which
this committee was created, induced as we believe by the pure incen-
tive of presenting truthful history and doing justice to the South,
and we commend their books as suitable for use in our schools.

We also recommend the following as suitable to be used as supple-
mentary reader in our schools:

"The Civil WTar," by Mrs. Ann E. Snyder, of Tennessee.

In conclusion your committee is gratified to know that other school
histories are in preparation by Southern authors which give promise
of great excellence, and indicate that the best thought of the country
is being enlisted in this important cause ; and we recommend that
the association provide the proper organization for carrying into effect
the recommendations of this committee.

All of which is respectfully submitted by your obedient servants,

S. D. Lee, Chairman,
J. N. Stube-s,
W. R. Garrett,
J. W. Nicholson,
Committee.

When General Lee had finished his report amid thunders of ap-
plause. Dr. J. William Jones arose and made an enthusiastic speech
upon the view of having true histories of the South written. He
moved the adoption of the report with the following resolution:

Resolved, That the present committee on history be continued,
with power to fill vacancies in the members and with instructions
to recommend such other histories as may from time to time be
published, and shall come up to the high standard we have adopted,
and that the committee shall do everything in its power to en-
courage the preparation of suitable histories and especially to encour-
age their publication by the building up of Southern publishing houses
which shall be able and willing to publish such histories.

The motion received a second and was carried unanimously.

GEORGE MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.
(official.)

PRICE 50 CENTS

MINUTES

of the FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING
and REUNION of the

UNITED

CONFEDERATE
VETERANS

HELD at HOUSTON, TEXAS, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
MAY twenty-second, twenty-third
and twenty-fourth, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five

J. B. GORDON

General Commanding

GEO. MOORMAN

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff

MINUTES

of the

FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING
and REUNION

of the

UNITED

CONFEDERATE

VETERANS

held at

HOUSTON, TEXAS

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, MAY
TWENTY-SECOND, TWENTY-THIRD and
TWENTY-FOURTH, ONE THOU-
SAND, EIGHT HUNDRED
and NINETY-FIVE

JOHN B. GORDON

General Commanding

GEO. MOORMAN

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff

NOTICE.

The files in the office do not contain the original papers for
the Reunion held in Birmingham; Ala., in 1894, and in Houston,
Texas, in 1895. I have made diligent search, b"t have not been able
to find them.

Recognizing that there should be no break in the published
records of our Order, I went (by direction of the Commandei-
in-Chief) to the city of Birmingham in the latter part of 1906 to
copy from the local papers the accounts of the proceedings as printed
at the time ; and shortly thereafter sent to the camps a fairly good
account of the proceedings.

I am indebted to the consideration and courtesy of Lieut. Gen
C. Irvine Walker, commanding the A. W. V. Dept., for the use of
his Confederate scrap-book, from which the following account ot trie
Houston Reunion is made up. I am deeply grateful,

Wm. E. Micklk,

Adjutant General.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

Fifth Annual Meeting and Reunion

OF THE

United Confederate Veterans,

HELD AT

HOUSTON, TEXAS,

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 22, 23 and 24, 1895.

FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1895.

At exactly 1 1 o'clock General Jno. B. Gordon, Commander-in-
Chief, ascended the platform at the Winnie Davis Auditorium, and
faced the 8,ooo Confederate delegates and spectators, who had been
there about two hours listening to the strains of music from Herb's
Light Guard Band. His appearance was greeted with enthusiastic
applause ; and a few minutes later, when Governor Culberson came
up and shook hands with him, he too was given a warm reception in
the shape of hearty greetings from thousands of throats. Miss
Winnie Davis soon after came upon the platform and received her
quota of cheers.

After ten minutes of this greeting to their Commander ana
their old battle flags, acknowledged on the part of General Gordon
by bowing right and left, and by the color-bearers by waving their

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precious relics back and forth, quiet was restored. General Gordon
then called on Chaplain-General J. Wm. Jones, D. D., who with
uplifted hands, the vast audience standing, prayed as follows:

"Oh, God, our God! our help in days gone by, our hope for
years to come: God of Abraham, God of Isaac and Jacob; God of
Israel and the nations; God of Jefferson Davis, of Lee and Stone-
wall Jackson, and all those brave men who led us in the days of
danger; be with us as with glad and grateful hearts we come to
another Reunion. We return thanks to Thee that in the dark days
of 1861-1865, Thou gave us such men as were our leaders and those
who followed them, thanks that though so many of them fell and are
falling, so many are able to be with us to-day. We thank Thee that
since the cause for which they battled was lost, yet Thou hast been
with them since, bringing them peace and happiness and prosperity.
Bless us; bless our land and country; bless those who rule over us
in nation and in states; send us prosperous seasons that our land
may smile in plenty. Bless the old veterans, whether here or else-
where; bless their families; and grant that friends may be raised up
for them everywhere. Bless us all, and finally save us for Christ the
Redeemer's sake. Amen."

President W. D. Cleveland, on the part of the United Confeder-
ate Veterans' Relief Association, welcomed the visitors briefly, as
follows:
"Comrades, Friends and Citizens —

"This is the greatest privilege of my life, the gieatest occa-
sion in the history of our city, to welcome with glad hearts and open
arms a body of men and soldiers, loved and honored by our country
for the record of a glorious and welljfilled past, a past of inspiration
to every Southerner, a past to transmit with all reverence to the ages
that are to follow. Our plans, my comrades, are for your pleasure
and happiness. If that is accomplished our reward is sufficient. We
are met to-day in happy peace, under the blessings of a benign Prov-
idence, under the bright skies of our Sunny South, in cheerful ac-
ceptance of our heritage of defeat, with no word of complaint or
criticism. Under the conquered flag we are come together again to
honor the cause for which it waved.

'For tho' conquered, we adore it;
Love the cold, dead hands that bore rt;
Weep for those that fell before it.'

"It gives me especial pleasure in the name of the Houston Asso-
ciation of United Confederate Veterans to throw wide the doors of
our hearts and homes for your entrance.

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"This important event is the realization of our brightest hopes,
that we are given an equal opportunity with our sister States to attest
our loyalty and devotion in hearty embrace after years of separation
from those we loved, with whom we fought and lived. We are
therefore justly proud of the achievement of our city in winning the
coveted possession of this host of heroes." (Applause.)

Mr. Cleveland then introduced Governor Culberson, who wel-
comed the Veterans to Texas in the following well-chosen words:

"The American colonists, fleeing from multiplied wrongs of
Monarchy, established themselves along the Atlantic Coast, and early
became the dominant forces of the continent. They planted there
the seed of that revolutionary political faith wThich developed into our
remarkable form of government. The original and commanding pio-
portions of that splendid structure are the marvel of mankind and
its corner-stone, laid thus in a wilderness, and since encircling the
earth with its influence, is the fundamental principle of local self-
government. Deep-rooted in the affections of the people, and essen-
tial to the creation and enjoyment of 'liberty in a representative dem-
ocracy, its enemies determined that this characteristic of American
insitutions should neither grow nor be extended. In resistance to
British assaults upon it, Jefferson sounded the noblest call to arms
since the birth of freedom, and amid the clash of embattled armies,
the foundation of its perpetuity was laid in our organic charter. Nor
was the march of the cardinal principles of the revolution wholly
arrested elsewhere. 'Battling for it, rare and noble spirits won im-
perishable renown in Poland. France, in a revolution dishonored by
many cruelties, but founded in just cause, discrowned her King, and
rebuked the despotism of centuries. Across the English channel, that
lofty sentiment was maturing for which Emmet offered up his young
life," ennobling that heroic and unended struggle for liberty which
has been alike the affliction and the glory of his countrymen.

"With the victories of Washington, and in association with this
growth of constitutional government, by common consent of American
civilization, grew the unhappy domestic institution of African slav-
ery. In its incipiency and for years afterwards, it was shared and
defended by all whatever may have been their motive, whether
friendship for the institution or an overshadowing purpose to estab-
lish the Union, a majority of Northern with a minority of Southern
'States, engrafted upon the National Constitution a recognition of
slavery and provided adequate safeguards for its protection^ Rec-
ognized and guarded by fundamental law, entrenched behind the
doctrine of local self-government, and wrought into the very tissues
of Southern civilization, it may be that its early extinction lay only
in revolution, yet with the lapse of time its evils were observed
by the humanity and statesmanship of all sections. Jefferson hesi-

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tated not to denounce it, but compared the solution of the problem to
the fearful alternative of holding or unloosening a ferocious beast. Un-
der these surroundings, the system continued to be encouraged and ex-
tended. With superior marine equipments and trading talents, the
North assiduously prosecuted the slave trade until the native increase
of slave population in the South rendered it unprofitable. The in-
auguration and growth of manufactures in the North, demanding
skilled white labor, more favorable climatic conditions and greater
demand for slave labor gradually concentrated the slaves in the
South, and they were woven imperceptibly and inexorably into the
warp and woof of its social and industrial life. Freed from the con-
servative and steadying influence of pecuniary interest by the sale of
its slave, the North exhibited an awakened and quickened conscience
as to the moral enormity of slavery, and with increasing bitterness
sought its destruction. It was characterized as moral leprosy and
its abolition demanded. The Constitution of the fathers because it
recognized and protected it, was denounced and execrated, and its
provisions evaded or openly disregarded ; fanatical invasions of States
to incite slave insurrection were abetted and applauded ; the organic
principle of local self-government for the States was denied ; the
share of the South in the statesmanship and martial glory of the
revolution was derided and Southern character and manners held up
to ridicule and contumely ; and when union ceased to be tolerable
upon the theory of affection and consent of the governed, invading
armies were mobilized to coerce original and independent sovereign-
ties which had proclaimed that philosophy of government and made
it immortal. In contradistinction to this the South in the great
controversy stood upon the single and broad contention that the
national constitution should be preserved, and that the States should
be left in their own time to solve other than federal problems. This
brief and general statement of historic truths is not made in a spirit
of offense or crimination. As part of the continuing argument to
posterity, they are dispassionately recalled as evidence of the provoca-
tion and justice of your course, for, while willingly ascribing to
Northern soldiers equal integrity of purpose, neither lack of enthu-
siasm nor political cowardice should deter one of Southern lineage
from declaring that for participation in that titanic struggle, no
apologies need be made to this or future generations. Thus chal-
lenged to the arbitrement of the sword, no answer but acceptance
could be made. The author of the Declaration of Independence, the
founder of liberty on this continent, the victor in the battles of the
revolution, the framer of the Constitution of the national republic,
and the foremost champion of the reserved rights of the States, the
South could not forgt the past or submit to the destruction of its con-
stitutional guarantees and hostile invasion of its territory. The prog-
ress and result of the mighty contest which ensued are known of all

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 7

men. Remembering the masterful and intrepid attack, whether
considered with reference to resolute grasp of great questions by the
civil administration under the leadership of that illustrious man
whose daughters honor us with their presence, or the briliant opera-
tions of the land and naval forces, the defense of the South, in vigor
and heroism is without a parallel. Out of scant material and re-
sources a strong and powerful government was constructed, and to
the end was administered by statesmen worthy the gigantic struggle
in which they were engaged. Less than a dozen war ships, command-
ed by the equals of Decatur and Nelson, successfully patroled and ex-
pelled the Union merchant marine from American waters. In mil-
itary conceptions as bold and comprehensive as those of Napoleon
or Wellington, and "in charges more brilliant than those of Murat or
Cardigan the armies astonished and electrified the world. Every
land was dazzled with their deeds, and the universe emblazoned with
their glory. Brave as Spartans and as knightly as the old cavaliers,
'somewhere in eternity within some golden palace walls where old
imperial banners float and Launcelots keep guard and Arthurs
reign and all the patriot heroes dwell,' they will' abide with brothers.
"Now that the passions of the great civil strife sleep in patriotic
oblivion, and only its loftier impulses are treasured, it is appropriate
that the survivors of the Confederacy should meet in fraternal
reunion. This great State is honored by your coming, and it is
the proudest of my off.cial acts, in her name to welcome you cor-
dially to her soil and the hospitalities of her people. It is fitting that
the brave should meet here in a noble city named for Houston, within
cannon-sound of the battlefield of San Jacinto, in a State that has
measured glory wTith the ancients and upon whose every hearthstone
the fires of patriotism still burn crowned wTith the glories of battle
and decked with the flowers of peace.

" 'When the golden sunset

Fades into the distant west
Rays of its parting splendor

Fall on your place of rest ;
Then to the silent churchyard

Love's footsteps shall fondly stray
To pray for the souls of heroes

Who fought for the South and the Gray.' "

8 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

The conclusion of the Governor's speech was followed by pro-
longed cheering. After it had subsided, Mr. Cleveland introduced
Hon. John T. Brown, Mayor of Houston, who spoke as follows:

THE MAYOR'S ADDRESS.

'Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the United Confederate
Veterans —

"I bid you welcome to our city — welcome to the hearts and
homes of our people, who greet you with out-stretched arms and
genuine joy. In thus bidding you welcome, I voice the sentiments
of our people, who are anxious to honor the men who in the discharge
of what they esteemed their duty laid upon its altar their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor, and are entitled to our gratitude for
the trials they endured and the dangers they have braved.

"We wanted your old comrades to see you once more, feeling
that many would not be able to go east of the Mississippi River to
do so, and for this purpose a delegation composed of our Governor
and representative citizens of our State and city was sent to Birming-
ham to tender you an invitation to hold your reunion of 1895 iii
Houston. You accepted our invitation for which I now thank you,
and say the promises made them through Judge Kittrell will be
fully and faithfully performed.

"We are anxious you should see your old comrades as they
live, and show 3'ou that they have made good husbands, good fathers,
and good, useful citizens of the United States. You meet here to-day
as brothers, and as brothers you greet those who have opposed you,
and mingle as brave men should, whether you followed Gordon
through the thickets of the Wilderness, were led by Pat Cleburne
through the blood-stained lines about Franklin, or rode with Sheri-
dan or marched with Grant.

"I bid you welcome again — yes ; thrice welcome to Houston,
and invoke the choicest blessings upon your heads."

When the applause which followed the Mayor's address died
away, President Cleveland said the next speaker was too well known
to need an introduction to any Confederate veteran, and he would
leave him to make himself known.

General Gordon's rising was the signal for a repetition of the
great wave of enthusiasm which had rolled over the house at his
first appearance. The old wild "rebel yell" again rent the air, flags
were waived, hats were thrown up, and every other means adopted
that could possibly be used to give expression to the love and admira-
tion retained by the old soldiers for the hero of the Wilderness. The
old Commander faced the great audience for many minutes before

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the demonstration subsided sufficiently for him to be heard. When
quiet had come again, General Gordon spoke as follows:

GENERAL GORDON'S SPEECH.

"Governor, Air. Mayor, Comrades and My Fellow Countrymen —

"It is my official duty and high privilege to respond in behalf of
my comrades to this gracious welcome and tender of munificent hos-
pitality by the city of Houston and State of Texas. When I have
said that they are characteristic of this city and State, my language
is capable of no stronger expression. What higher tribute could be
paid to this great people than to say that their hospitality is worthy
of Texas? Around the name and history of Texas are gathered as-
sociations glorious and hallowed ; and in her future career are cen-
tered high hopes of richest contributions to the future of the Republic.

"In fifty years of statehood she has risen to a commanding po-
sition among her sisters, and the imagination can scarcely keep pace
with her assured progress in the fifty years to come. With a genial
climate and imperial domain; with a soil not only exhaustless in its
fertility, but which, like responsive charity answers with more lavish
abundance as the demands upon it become more exacting; with a
history rich in the memories of her Alamo, her Goliad, her San
Jacinto, as well as in the deeds of her Houston, her Austin, her
Travis and her Lamar, with a proud heritage of valor and heroism
bequeathed by her intrepid sons in the mighty conflict of the sixties;
with some of the best blood of the Republic in the veins of her people,
whose indomitable energy and lofty spirit are equalled only by their
princely hospitality; with all these splendid endowments by nature,
by history and by the characteristics of her sons and daughters — what
optimistic prophet would predict for her a career so glorious as to
be beyond her reasonable ambition?

"The assembling of these war-scarred veterans in this war-
scarred state recalls a striking contrast in their war histories. Sixty
years ago Texas won her fight for independence. Thirty years
ago these Confederates lost their fight for separate nationality; but
Texas victorious was not more glorious and grand than were these
brave men around me in their overwhelming defeat. Texas victori-
ous won her way to statehood and a place in the front rank of
States. These Confederates, crushed and disbanded as soldiers, ad-
dressed themselves to the duties of citizens with a conservatism so con-
spicuous, a patriotism so true and broad, a fidelity to the decisions
of battle so unquestioned and sincere as to challenge the confidence
and esteem of patriots in every section of the Union.

"This leads me to recall three remarkable achievements by
these Confederates in peace, which impartial history will pronounce
a fitting climax to their splendid record in war.

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"The first is the reconstruction, mainly through your instru-
mentality, of the labor system of our entire section. You returned
from a long, exhausting and unsuccessful struggle to find the agri-
cultural labor of your States not only disorganized, but as a system
(to the management and control of which you were born and
trained) it was utterly destroyed, yet you heroically undertook the.
task of its reorganization under a new system and of adapting your-
selves to that new order. The success of your efforts is the noblest
commentary upon your wisdom and justice. With no power to con-
trol that hitherto servile labor and no money to pay it, you success-
fully guided it to a plane of self-support, and to vastly increased
product of the South's great staple.

"The second is your astounding success in securing, in spite
of the radical revolution in the conditions around you and in so
short a period, financial independence for your families and indus-
trial prosperity for your section. You returned from the war poor,
tens of thousands penniless, many shot and maimed, and yet bravely
and uncomplainingly laboring, with aid from no source save from
God and your own self-reliant manhood, you have fought your
way to competence, provided for your disabled comrades until scarcely
i Confederate soldier can be found deprived of the comforts of life.
At the same time your combined efforts have carried these Southern
States to a height of material advancement from which you may
now calmly look back over a land which but thirty years ago was
a wide waste of desolation and ashes; and around you over a country
now happy in its rebuilt homes and redeemed farms, radiant in the
light of industrial resurrection, of assured prosperity and enduring
material independence.

"The third achievement is the passionless, unostentatious and
peaceful manner in which you laid aside the trappings and discipline
of the camp for the modest garb of the citizen and silent restraints
of civil government. For this marvellous exhibition of self-command
under supremest trials; for this complete burial of all sectional
bitterness; for the gradual but certain transmuting of your valor and
devotion, exhibited in defense of the flag that fell into unchallenged
loyaJty to the flag that triumphed — for all these evidences of the
loftiest attributes of citizenship, you will yet find your reward in
the universal plaudits of your countrymen, as it is already secured
in the power, progress and cherished freedom of our reunited Re-
public.

"Go forward, my comrades; and by self-denial, by wise economy
and well-directed energy, continue the material development of this
Heaven-blessed section, until abundance shall be found in every
home and the whole land shall rejoice in your industrial triumphs.
Go forward in the cultivation of a national fraternity, giving no

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heed to imprudent or thoughtless efforts to stimulate sectional ani-
mosities in any quarter.

"I rejoice in the privilege of bearing to you fraternal greetings
from the great body of brave men who confronted you in battle. It has
been my fortune recently to mingle with those men in every section.
Be assured, my Confederate comrades, that the overwhelming ma-
jority of the Grand Army of the Republic, composed of soldiers
who were brave in battle and are generous in peace, courageous,
knightly and true, bear towards you neither lingering bitter-
ness nor sentiment of distrust. Whatever of untimely passion, which
may here and there exist from any cause, will be of short duration
and comparatively harmless. In the presence of your continued con-
servatism and in view of the higher and nobler sentiment of the
country, it will vanish like vapors before the morning sun.

"But I must not consume more of the time of this most import-
ant convention. I close as I began, by assuring the governor of this
great State, the Mayor of this metropolian city, and the generous and
patriotic people of both, that the United Confederate Veterans are
profoundly grateful for this superb reception and bountiful hospital-
ity." (Thunderous applause).

At the close of General Gordon's address, the band played
"Dixie," and the auditorium resounded with loud and long cheers.

The following appointments were then made.

Committee on Credentials. — W. W. Wadsworth, Alabama;
Gen. R. G. Shover, Arkansas; R. M. Cowan, Georgia; Gen. John
Boyd, Kentucky; W. L. Lyman, Louisiana; Capt. Frank Phillips,
Florida; Gen. Geo. H. Stewart, Maryland; Col. Goldsmith, Mis-
sissippi; Col. H. A. Newman, Missouri; Capt. B. H. Teague, South
Carolina; Saml. Thomas, North Carolina; R. H. Dudley, Tennessee;
Col. I. Taylor, Ellvson, Virginia; J. D. Shaw, Texas; Gen. John
L. Gait, Indian Territory.

Committee on Resolutions. — H. F. Bridewell, Alabama; B.
F. Crowley, Arkansas; Col. W. S. Calhoun, Georgia; Gen. John
Boyd, Kentucky; Gen. John Glynn, Louisiana; J. E. Enslow, Jr.,
Florida; Gen. Geo. H. Stewart, Maryland; Col. W. D. Holden,
Mississippi; Gen. Joe Shelby, Missouri; Capt. James G. Holmes,
South Carolina; Samuel Thomas, North Carolina; Col. J. H. Hoi-
man, Tennessee; Col. J. Taylor Stratton, Virginia; I. F. Campbell,
Texas; Col. R. B. Coleman, Indian Territory.

Sergeant- at- Arms. — J. T. Garner, Alabama; Paul Fauchin,
Arkansas; D. M. Broadham, Missouri; P. M. Griffith, Tennessee;

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R. M. Howard, Georgia; John Ahrens, South Carolina; Samuel
Thomas, North Carolina; J. C. Pippin, Florida; B. S. Benford,
Virginia; M. A. Armstrong, Mississippi; Geo. Ellis, Texas; J. C.
Withers, Oklahoma; A. A. Maginnis, Louisiana; A. J. Youngblood,
Indian Territory; John W. Fortch, Maryland.

General Gordon then called for the Report of the Historical
Committee. When General Stephen D. Lee, the Chairman, came
to the front of the stage, he received an enthusiastic greeting' from
the veterans, many of whom had been with him during the war. He
then presented the Report, which is as follows:

REPORT OF THE HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.

Major General George Moorman, Adjutant General and Chief of
Staff, United Confederate Veterans:

Dear Sir : — Your committee, known as the "Historical Com-
mittee and on Southern School History," appointed August 13,
1892, made report at the reunion of the veterans at Birmingham,
Ala., April 25 and 26, 1894, which report was unanimously
adopted and the committee continued with enlarged powers to fill
vacancies, and to recommend histories, and to encourage their adop-
tion.

Subsequent to this action of the convention, what was known
here as "the new constitution" was adopted, which virtually did away
with the committee and its work, and inaugurated a new system of
action, in gathering authentic "data" for preparing an impartial
history of the war between the States. Almost immediately after
the adjournment of the veterans in April, the general commanding
suspended the new constitution and ordered delay of procedure,
until such time as he could examine it and decide definitely as to
its adoption or official promulgation. This action was not taken
until January, when said constitution was set aside, and what was
known as the "old constitution" continued in force. The official
proceedings of the convention have not yet been published, and the
official report of the Historical Committee made at Birmingham
has been officially printed and promulgated only within the last
month. Hence, there has of necessity been a delay of action of
almost a year on the part of your committee, as they were not
authorized to proceed until the matter of the constitution was offi-
cially disposed of. Their report has now been printed and promul-
gated, a copy having been sent to each camp of our organization
and otherwise made public.

So really all that can 'be properly done now, is to review and
put in operation all the suggestions made in the first report, with

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such new recommendations as the committee deem necessary under
the developments of the last year.

The report made at Birmingham clearly pointed out the neces-
sity of prompt action by this organization in taking- steps for a
complete "renaissance" of history throughout the South; that justice
to the South demands that the entire field of history be explored,
and its neglected facts be carefully gathered and portrayed ; that the
vindication of the South must come from the pens of Southern
writers; that these writers must be inspired by an active and out-
spoken public sentiment; that the apparent listlessness and indiger-
ence with which the South has submitted to the misrepresentations
and omissions of those who have essayed to write American history
has been little less than criminal; that a growing sentiment in the
South now demands for our children and for the world a vindication
of the Southern people, and a refutation of the slanders, the mis-
representations and the imputations which they have so long and
patiently borne.

Macaulay, the historian, says: "A people which takes no pride
in the noble achievements of remote ancestry will never achieve
anything worthy to be remembered by remote descendants."

No people ever had a more glorious record than the people of
the South, from the first settlement of the colonists in Virginia
(thirteen years before the landing of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower)
to the present time. The first victory for popular rights in America
was won by a Southern colony. In 1619, more than one year
before the settlement of Massachusetts, the colonists of Virginia
demanded from the London Company the right of local self-
government. This right was accorded. In June, 16 19, Sir George
Yeardley, Governor of Virginia, issued his summons for the election
of burgesses; for which great act, as well as for his instrumentality
in securing this right for the colony, he has been justly styled, "The
Father of Representative Government in America."

The Virginia House of Burgesses, the first legislative assembly
in the Western Hemisphere, was convened July 30, 1619, and not
only framed the model for future legislation in America, but also
shaped the future colonial policy of England.

The second victory was won when, in accordance with the
petition of this first legislative assembly, the London Company,
on the 24th day of July, 1621, passed the memorable ordinance
granting to the colony of Virginia the first written constitution.

It was in a Southern colony, in 1676, that the 4th day of July
was first rendered memorable in American annals, just one hundred
years before the Declaration of Independence, when Bacon led the
first armed resistance to British oppression.

It was in a Southern colony, in May, 1765, that the "forest-
born Demosthenes" offered the famous resolutions which, enforced

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by his sublime eloquence and adopted by the Virginia House of
Burgesses, kindled the flame of the revolution.

It was in the Southern colony of North Carolina, May 1 6,
1 77 1, that the battle of Alamance preceded the Revolution.

It was in the Southern colony of North Carolina, May 15,
1 775, that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence preceded
more than one year the national declaration.

The spirit of the Southern colonies in the revolution and or
the Southern people in the war between the States was national and
liberal and patriotic. It is necessary for the student of history to
"realize what an important part the South and her people have
played in emancipating the country from foreign domination, and
in building up the national government, and in achieving the true
glory of the American Union ; her part in the American Revolution
was most conspicuous; not only did she fly to the support of the
New England States when assailed, but she gave to the country the
majority of the leaders in those trying times. Then afterwards, her
sons were always prominent in services for the Union. They
chiefly fought the Mexican War. While under the sway of the
South every foot of the territory acquired by the country was added
to the national domain, save the costly icebergs of Alaska. It was
during an essentially Southern administration that a revenue system
was proposed by a Southern Secretary of the Treasury, that was so
important a factor in that unexampled prosperity of the whole coun-
try that prevailed from 1846 to the beginning of the Civil War;
and all through our history, the names of Southern leaders are
numerous and illustrious in the army and navy and in civil life.
"The South is satisfied with the record, if impartially presented, as
to their motives and aspirations in going into the Civil War and the
part they played in that war in defending the heritage of their
ancestors."

Our former report says: "In nothing has the South suffered
so much at the hands of the writers of school history as in the
treatment of the subjects of State sovereignty, nullification, slavery
and secession. Since the success of Northern resources over Southern
arms in the Civil War, it has been the practice of Northern writers
to isolate the period of the war, and either uphold the specific acts
of the South in withdrawing from the Union as a political crime,
using as a term of reproach the term of rebellion, or to infer from
the fact that Southern independence was not maintained, that
secession was morally wrong. The facts of American history rob
the reproach of its sting when it shows that the foundation of our
present government was laid in secession, the 'States moving in the
matter, virtually seceding from the 'perpetual union' under the
articles of confederation ; that the structure of American independ-
ence was upreared in rebellion ; that subsequently every section of the
country has at some time threatened to secede."

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In reference to the question of nullification, it was not one of
the Southern States that alone proposed it; but it originated in the
North, where many of the States, by legislative enactment, nullified
the Constitution of the United States, especially with respect to the
fugitive slave law, that the whole country, and not the South alone,
was responsible for slavery, the system prevailing in the North as
long as it was found profitable; that the slave trade was made pos-
sible only by New England vessels, manned by New England crews.

The true cause of the war between the States was the dignified
withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union to avoid the
continued breaches of that domestic tranquility guaranteed, but not
consummated, by the Constitution, and not the high moral purpose
of the North to destroy slavery, which followed incidentally as a
war measure.

As to the war itself and the results of the war, the children of
the future would be astonished that a people fought so hard and so
long with so little to fight for, judging from what they gather from
histories now in use, prepared by writers from the North. They are ut-
terly destitute of information as to events leading to the war. Their
accounts of the numbers engaged, courage displayed, sacrifices en-
dured, hardships encountered, and barbarity practiced upon an almost
defenseless people whose arms-bearing population was in the army,
are incorrect in every way.

A people, who for four long years, fought over almost every
foot of their territory, on over 2,000 battlefields, with the odds of
2,864,272 enlisted men against their 600,000 enlisted men, and their
coast blockaded, and rivers filled with gunboats, with 600 vessels
of war, manned by 35,000 sailors, and who protracted the struggle
until over one-half of their soldiers were dead from the casualties
of war, had something to fight for. They fought for the great
principle of local self-government, and the privilege of managing
their own affairs, and for the protection of their homes and firesides.

While the South would not detract an iota from the patriotic
motive and endeavor of those opposing them, she intends that the
truth of history shall be written by a sympathetic and friendly pen,
to give her credit for what our ancestors did, and for what was done
by the South in the war between the States. Also to chronicle the
results of that war and its effects upon the South and upon our
common country.

The facts are that while the South has always been prominent
in making history, she has left the writing of history mainly to New
England historians, whose chief defect is "lack of Catholic sympathy
for all other sections of the country." While all have "possessed
the advantages of learning and literary skill that have distinguished
them as writers so preeminently, they have also had the faults of
their people, one of which is an extravagant estimate of the import-

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ance of their own small group of States, that dwarfs all other
States in the Union, hence their "pictures have too often been like
photographs in which the objects nearest the camera are out of all'
proportion with other parts of the picture."

They especially treat the South as a section, almost as a foreign
country, and while omitting the glaring faults of their own ances-
tors and their own section, they specialize the faults of the early
Virginia colonists and the Southern colonists generally. They speak
of slavery as a crime for which the South is solely responsible, and
ignore the historical fact that England and New England are as
much responsible for it as their brothers of the South; that it was
forced, not only on New England, but on the South, by Great
Britain, and in spite of the protests of Virginia and other Southern
colonies. They ignore the fact, too, that but for the compromise
adopted during the Revolutionary period, recognizing slavery and its
continued existence, our independence as a nation could not have
been achieved, or our Union maintained; that slavery was the South's
misfortune, the whole country's fault; that the violation of these
compromises and of laws to enforce them, with the rapid develop-
ment and increase of population and new States, brought dangers
and perplexities, producing intemperance, passions and prejudices
among a high-spirited people which culminated in the war.

A true history is now desired. The war between the States
and its issues are things of the past and are committed to history.
The duty of patriotic citizens, in every part of our common country,
is to strive wTith citizens of every other section to promote the
progress and glory of our grand country in working out its des-
tiny. Secession and slavery are decided forever against the South.
It makes no matter now who was to blame, and how plainly the right
of a sovereign State to withdraw from the Union is established by
legal right, or by the construction of our highest court the matter is
finally settled. When Jefferson and Madison construed our Con-
stitution in one way, and Washington and Hamilton in another,
surely there was ground for their descendants to honestly differ in
construing the Constitution.

Now, the facts of history must be made to speak for them-
selves, and equal and exact justice must be done everywhere. The
flag of our country is not the peculiar heritage of any section or
part of this Union. Each of its many sections can claim its part
and its proper share of the honors. Let us be honest everywhere.
Let us tell the truth, even to the record of the war between the
States and the causes leading to it, and the facts after the war.
There is honor and glory enough for all — for North, for South,
for East, for West. The South and its descendants to this present
time are willing to abide by the true record impartially put into
history.

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Your committee is pleased to report that a growing interest in
this matter of a true history of the United States is apparent at
the South, as also at the North ; that the time has at last arrived
when truth can be told, listened to, and digested without the pas-
sions and prejudices of the past.

The histories written by Northern historians in the first ten
or fifteen years following the close of the war, dictated by prejudice
and prompted by the evil passions of that period (and generally
used in the schools) are unfit for use, and lack all the breadth,
liberality and sympathy so essential to true history, and although
some of them have been toned down, they are not yet fair and
accurate in the statements of facts.

Many of these histories have an edition for use in Northern
schools and another of the same history for use in Southern schools
toned down and made to pander as is supposed to Southern senti-
ment.

What is needed is a history equally fitted for use North and
South, and divested of all passion and prejudice incident to the
war period. Until a more liberal tone is indicated by Northern
historians, it is best that their books be kept out of Southern schools.

The veterans of the Northern and Southern armies now look
now invoking a spirit of truth, concession, and fairness, in review-
at the issues for which they fought more dispassionately, and there
are many pointers indicating a more liberal and fairer view of the
motives and aspirations of the two sections in the great struggle.

It is, therefore, important that the Southern people be aroused
and take steps to have a correct history written, a history which
will vindicate them from the one-sided indictment found in many
of the histories now extant. The love of a common country is
ing the causes which led to the war, and in discussing the conduct
of the war and its result. It is conceded that both sections had
right on their side as they construed the Constitution, and certainly
the valor displayed is evidence that they were sincere and believed
they were right. The movement is assuming the best and most
'permanent form, and the demand is growing for truth, not self-
adulation and disparagement of the other side, not crimination and
recrimination. The public sentiment is well tempered and patriotic,
as attested by the tone of the press, by the increase in the number
of historical articles in magazines and periodicals, and in publica-
tions of such books as "The South, Constitution and Resulting
Union," by Reverend Dr. J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia. The
Northern tone is much more liberal. The government is contin-
uously publishing official reports and other material throwing light
on all matters of difference.

Yet, with all this, the South was conquered in the war, and
if Southern veterans who are living, and their descendants, do not

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look to their own vindication by sympathetic pens, the record of
history will contain many errors and false indictments against the
South, Which have originated with Northern writers with that par-
tiality for their section which is evident from their coloring of his-
tory from the landing of the first colonists in Virginia to the present
time. Most of this awaking of interest in the desire for a true history
of the United States is due to the action of the Confederate vet-
erans, the judicious and liberal tone of their proceedings directed
to vindication and to manly assertion of broad sentiments, and the
consciousness of high patriotic motives and intent in defending prin-
ciples they knew to be right.

And, after failing in manly and heroic conflict to sustain those
principles, in restoring their allegiance to one common country, feel-
ing it to be their country, feeling that their ancestors did a prom-
inent and large part in building and developing it. While some of
us may conscientiously think it is not the Union of States first
formed, that it is a new, more centralized, stronger Union, and
not the one our fathers established ; yet such as it is, it is now the
best government in the world, it is our government, and it has
our admiration and love.

The love of a common country which should animate every
patriotic citizen demands a fair and impartial history to transmit to
our descendants a proper respect and regard for a common ancestry.

Notwithstanding the delay in the promulgation of the recom-
mendations of the committee, still several States have already taken
active measures to carry out the suggestions of the report. In Ten-
nessee and Virginia the State divisions of the United Confederate
Veterans, the State Teachers' Associations and other organizations
'have endorsed the report and are moving to put it into practical
operation. The joint committee on education in the Legislature of
Tennessee, in a strong report, make the following recommendation :
"That an additional appropriation of $5,000 per annum be appro-
priated to the Peabody Normal College, which shall be used as
follows: Two thousand dollars for the general expenses of the
college, and $3,000 for the support of the chair of American history,
to be applied to the salary of the occupant of the chair and to the
expenses of original investigation and accumulation and care ot
historical material and the purchase of manuscripts and books; said
chair to be devoted to the history of the United States and of the
American continent, and to give especial attention to the history of
Tennessee." Your committee feel assured that all of our Southern
States will follow suit.

Your committee recommend a continuance of the same policy
as marked out in our first report, and a more complete organization
of sub-committees for each State to press active work. The policy
should be maintained which is now beginning to bear fruit, that

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policy being to begin at the foundation by stimulating public senti-
ment to bring to the work of formulating history many minds, to
reach the educational institutions and the youth of the country
through our Southern universities. This is a deeper, surer and
more permanent mode of vindicating the South than relying upon
the employment of one or more writers to act as special attorneys
to plead the cause at the bar of history.

Your committee, therefore, renew and reiterate their recom-
mendations made in the first report made at Birmingham, namely:

A GENERAL HISTORY.

The order of the association creating this committee requires
us "to formulate a plan for securing a true and reliable history of
the late Civil War." In attempting to formulate this plan, the
committee has been led to examine the whole field of history. We
find, as has been heretofore set forth in this report, that justice to
the South requires that the entire field of history be explored and
its neglected facts be faithfully gathered and portrayed. We need
a "renaissance" of history throughout the South. We have looked
around for the best agency to effect this object.

What will be the most efficient agency? It must be a uni-
versal agency, a continuing agency, an influential agency. It must
be an agency that can stimulate historical research; create historical
taste; produce not only one work, but many works; employ not only
one mind, but many minds; make the work assume various shapes,
not only in the form of standard histories and school histories, but
also State histories, magazine articles, historical essays, popular
Isketches, local history, etc. It is unfortunately true that lour
people have neglected history. They have not only neglected to
write, but they have neglected to read what is written. Histor-
ical taste and historical literature must assume various phases. There
is a deplorable lack of knowledge of State history and of local his-
tory. Here is a mine rich in unexplored history and poetry. We
need workers in the field. Very few even of our educated citizens
have devoted much attention to the histories of their respective
States. This history, when developed, will touch the popular heart.
No one mind can explore this wide field, and no one work can cover
the ground. We need a separate history for each State.

Besides, we do not wish to limit our work to the present time.
Can we not kindle a flame which will not burn out with the life of
our generation ?

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the association recommend the following plan : Every university in
the South to establish a chair of American history; that this chair
be not overloaded with additional work, but its occupant be allowed
leisure and be provided with appliances for historical investigation
and authorship ; that the occupant of this chair be selected with
special reference to his fitness for historical authorship, and also for
inspiring students with a spirit of original historical investigation;
that the chair of American history should include a comprehensive
course, embracing not only a history of the United States, but also
the history of the entire American continent, and should be taught
in a manner to suit matured minds, and to lead them to original
investigation. The inauguration of such a course in our Southern
universities, leading to a full comprehension of the history, geogra:
phy, and relations of the various members of the American conti-
nent, would give the coming generation of Southern youth a broad
knowledge which would bring to the South a benefit which need not
be enlarged on.

i. That the association recommend to the Legislatures of the
several Southern States to provide, in the public school course, for
teaching the history of the native State one year, and also for teach-
ing the history of the United States' one year, and for the estab-
lishment and support of a chair of "American History" in the State
University, or in some suitable 'State institution ; and also for en-
couraging the preparation of State school histories.

2. That the association recommend that all private schools and
academies make provision for teaching the history of the native State
one year, and the history of the United States one year.

3. That the association appoint suitable committees to mem-
orialize the several Legislatures and authorities of universities and
schools and to request the co-operation of State historical societies,
State literary societies, the press, etc.

SCHOOL HISTORIES.

1. The importance of placing and teaching impartial and ac-
curate histories of the United States in all our schools cannot be
overestimated nor exaggerated. With this end in view, at the for-
mer meeting of this committee, the following resolution was adopted :

"To select such of existing school histories as are truthful and
just in their statements in reference to the causes and facts of the
late war, and recommend the same for use in all our schools in
order of preference, if possible and practical."

2. In pursuance of this resolution, your committee has grouped
all existing histories under three heads: (1) Those written and
published in the North pronouncedly unfair to the South, her insti-
tutions and her part in history; (2) Those written and published

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in the North apparently fair in their treatment of Southern ques-
tions; (3) Those written and published in the South.

GROUP I.

These works were for the most part issued in the first ten or
fifteen years following the close of the late war, and reflect in full
the sentiment then generally prevailing over the Northern section
of our country. Dictated by prejudice and prompted by the evil
passions that time had not then softened, they need not be consid-
ered by the committee.

GROUP 2 NORTHERN HISTORIES APPARENTLY FAIR.

A number of the books belonging to group 1 have been either
(a) revised and emasculated in their effort to curry favor with the
text book patrons of both sections, or (b) separate editions made for
Northern and Southern schools. To these have been added a num-
ber of works published in recent years, which, avoiding any positive
statement derogatory to the South, studiously suppress every fact of
American history upon which the justice of the Southern cause and
purity of motive of Southern political leaders are based, (c) His-
tories written and published at the North in which an honest effort
is made to do justice to the 'South. While some of these histories
contain many excellent features, they ignore many facts which the
South, as a section, takes a patriotic pride in, and they fail to present
the distinctive features of Southern civilization with force and fidel-
ity, or to give due prominence to the work done by the South as a
factor in the Union. We are gratified to note that several of these
histories have been revised so as to exclude objectionable expressions
and to include facts of history favorable to the South, which have
heretofore been ignored, and we hope that the time is not far dis-
tant when writers of history from either section will take pride and
pleasure in presenting with cordiality and enthusiasm the distinctive
work of each section as a factor of our common country.

We believe that the records of the nation contain many neg-
lected facts of history which, when clearly presented, will not only
justify the motives and purposes of the South as a section, but will
tend to promote kindly feeling between the sections and to instill
sentiments of patriotism and mutual respect. For such reasons, we
are unwilling that facts of history of which the South has just right
to be proud shall be omitted in the instruction of our children.

GROUP 3 SOUTHERN HISTORIES.

This group constitutes a small number of published works,
which have been examined with reference to the following points:

1. Is the historic value impaired by inaccuracy, or by an over-
drawn, exaggerated narrative of events, in which self-glorification

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takes the place of calm statement of the whole truth, which alone
is necessary to support the position of the South in .national affairs?

2. Do they compare in typographical appearance with other
attractive histories?

3. Are they practical teaching text-books?

4. In illustrations, do they give equal prominence to events
and individuals of the South as to those of the North?

5. In the treatment of the American revolution, do they do
full justice to the men of the South in the field and forum, and
do they make the point that the war was for independence and
self-government, and that the Southern people were animated by
these principles in the last war?

6. Are the questions of sovereignty and slavery dispassionately
treated ?

7. Do they touch fully the importance and in most cases pre-
dominant part taken by Southern men in the revolution ; in the con-
stitutional convention ; in shaping the affairs of the government ; in
extending the domain of the United States to our present limits;
in maintaining our national honor and credit abroad, and in prop-
erly presenting the characteristics of Southern life and civilization ?

8. Do they denominate the last war a "rebellion," instead of
a conflict between the States?

9. In giving a truthful narration of the events of the Civil
War, the unparalleled patriotism manifested by the Southern people
in accepting its results, and the courage and perseverance displayed
by them in building up their shattered homes and ruined estates?

In the opinion of this committee, these are some of the most
important features necessary to an accurate and impartial history of
the United States. We are gratified to find that Southern people
are beginning to awaken to the importance of writing their own his-
tory, that a few Southern authors have prepared works for use in
the schools, which more or less embody the features above enumer-
ated, viz:

"Hansell's Histories," written by Prof. H. E. Chambers of
Louisiana.

"History of the American People," written by J. H. Shinn, of
Arkansas.

"History of the United States," written by A. H. Stephens, of
Georgia.

"History of the United States," written by George F. Holmes,
of Virginia.

"History of the United States," written by Robert R. Harrison,
of Virginia.

"History of the United States," written by Blackburn & Mc-
Donald, of Maryland.

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"Grammar School History of the United States," written by
L. A. Field, of Georgia.

"History of the United States," by J. T. Terry, of Georgia.

Your committee cordially commend the zeal of the above
authors for the work already undertaken and done in the cause for
which this committee was created, induced, as we believe, by the
pure incentive of presenting truthful history and doing justice to
the South, and we commend their books as suitable for use in our
schools.

We also recommend -the following as suitable to be used as
supplementary reader in our schools:

"The Civil War," by Mrs. Ann E. Snyder, of Tennessee.

In conclusion, your committee is gratified to know that other
school histories are in preparation by Southern authors which give
promise of great excellence, and indicate that the best thought of
the country is being enlisted in this important cause; and we recom-
mend that the association provide the proper organization for car-
rying into effect the recommendations of this committee.

Your committee also recommend that each and every camp in
this organization make it an immediate duty to have prepared before
all the members "cross over the river," a correct roll of every com-
pany raised in every county, giving names on original roll, those
killed in battle, and in what battle, those wounded, those who died
from wounds and diseases, and those who got through the war;
that State organizations urge this duty on their respective Legisla-
tures through efficient committees to lay the recommendations of
this committee before their respective State Legislatures, and ask
appropriations to carry them into effect.

Your committee with pleasure recommend "Confederate Vet-
eran," published by Comrade S. A. Cunningham, at Nashville, Ten-
nessee, which has virtually become the organ of this great associa-
tion. It is doing valuable work in clearing up hidden facts of his-
tory connected with the great struggle. It would be a fortunate
event if a larger subscription list would enable its publishers to
enlarge its pages and make it the medium of more extended publi-
cations connected with the war and the causes leading to the war.

We cannot too strongly urge upon our people the great import-
ance of avoiding, as far as possible, the purchasing and disseminating
of books and literature which are unkind and unfair to the South,
which belittle our achievements, impugn our motives, and malign
the characters of our illustrious leaders. An example of this kind
of literature is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which, while a work
of exceptional merit in many particulars, abounds in such a distor-
tion of historical facts in reference to the South as could have em-

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anated only from ignorance or malignity. A yet more flagrant ex-
ample of this kind is a reprint, in part, of that encyclopaedia, known
as the R. S. Peale reprint, now being advertised in Southern news-
papers.

It is with much pleasure that your committee can report the
growing interest in having the history of the South, properly, truth-
fully and impartially written. We believe there are Southern
authors now preparing histories; and as your committee was directed
and empowered to add to the list of histories for our Southern
schools, your committee now recommends that the history of the
United States by Mrs. Susan P. Lee, of Lexington, Va., be added
to said lists, as filling the requirements of 'histories that should be
used in our schools. It has been brought to the attention of your
committee that the Grand Camp of Virginia has asked that the
United Confederate Veteran Association take steps in having a
"History of the Confederate War, Its Causes, Character and Con-
sequences," published; now your committee endorse the idea that
such a history should be written, and invite any party who desires
to undertake the task to do so, and let each history, as it is written?
stand or fall on its own merit. Your committee find it quite im-
possible to examine manuscripts .and pass on the merits or demerits
of any particular author, but as in the past, as to school histories,
throw open the field to authors of the history of the Confederate
War, its causes, character and consequences.

We would call especial attention to a recent work of Dr. J.
L. M. Curry, entitled, "The South, Constitution and the Resulting
Union." It is one of the best books that has been written or pub-
lished since the war. It is catholic, broad and patriotic, and at the
same time clear, terse and condensed, presenting only those salient
points of American history with which every citizen of this great
Republic should be familiar. Without doing injustice to any section
of the country, it does immortal honor to the genius of our soldiery
and the patriotism of our people ; and we recommend its general use
in the families and schools of the South.

In conclusion, we would respectfully recommend that Dr. J.
L. M. Curry, the patriot, statesman, philosopher and educator, be
invited to deliver an address at our next annual reunion on the
subject of slavery, nullification and secession, with special reference
to the attitudes of the people, North and South, to these three lead-
ing questions of American history.

In conclusion, your committee recommend the enlargement of
this committee to (15) fifteen, so as to embrace a member from each

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of the Southern States, and thus insure a larger number for the
transaction of business.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

S. D. Lee, Chairman.
J. W. Nicholson,
J. W. Stubbs,
W. R. Garrett,
H. L. Bentley,

Committee.

During the reading of the report, Miss Winnie Davis, accom-
panied by a number of Houston ladies, came upon the platform, and
after having been introduced by General Gordon as "Our Daugh-
ters," received a perfect ovation in the way of hearty cheers.

Judge J. H. Reagan came forward a minute later and was also
heartily cheered.

A motion to adjourn to 7 o'clock this evening was adopted, no
one to be admitted hereafter who was not an accredited delegate;
and the band played "The Bonnie Blue Flag."

General Gordon was besieged by the veterans, and indulged
in a long, continuous round of hand-shaking. Miss Winnie was
also given a reception on the platform by the ladies; and in respense
to loud calls, came forward and addressed the veterans as follows:
"I am here to see you all, and shake hands with every one of you.
It is the greatest joy of my life to do so, but I cannot do it unless
you follow the rules, and preserve order and decorum. I know you
do not want to make it difficult for me to shake you by the hand,
and that you will preserve order. Now, won't you do this."

Quiet was then restored and the handshaking resumed.

26 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS,
EVENING SESSION, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1895.

The Convention was called to order by General Gordon at
7 130 o'clock.

As the Committee on Credentials were not prepared to report,
a motion to adopt and print the report of the Historical Committee,
presented at the morning session, was made. One delegate raised
objection that he had not read it, but soon withdrew his opposition,
and the motion was unanimously carried.

A fight had been expected over this report, as it was under-
stood that representatives of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which the
report condemned as unfair to the South, were prepared to make
a defense. Nothing was, however, heard from them.

On motion of Dr. J. Wm. Jones, Chaplain General, the report
of the Special Committee on the Davis Monument was made the
special order for to-morrow ' at 1 1 o'clock. Gen. W. L. Cabell,
chairman of that committee, called upon all the sub-committees that
had not already reported to do so before the time named.

A Louisiana veteran moved that W. P. Hardeman be invited
to a seat upon the stage.

General Gordon: "The Chair will not put that motion, but
will invite General Hardeman to the stage without a motion. If
General Hardeman is present, he will please come forward." "Old
Gotch" was not in the hall; and General Gordon continued: "All
general officers present are invited to seats upon the stage."

The Committee on Credentials submitted a partial report,
which was read by Col. J. D. Shaw, as follows:
"Gen. John B. Gordon, Commander-in-Chief United Confederate
Veterans :

"Your Committee on Credentials have examined the official
lists in the Adjutant General's office, and find in good standing
433 Camps, entitled to 1,366 votes.

"The committee have not completed their labors, and desire
further time, in order to make a supplemental report.

"They beg leave to recommend, in order to facilitate the busi-
ness of the convention, that the delegates be seated by States after
the present session."

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The report was adopted, and the committee given further time.
Col. John P. Hickman, of Frank Cheatham Camp No. 35,
Nashville. Tenn., offered the following:

"Whereas, The adoption of the Constitution by the Birmingham
Convention having been suspended by order of the Commanding
General ; and

"Whereas, The reason for said action being a misunderstanding
of the full purport and meaning of the Constitution adopted as
aforesaid, coupled with the protests of the Camps; therefore, be it

"Resolved, That the action in adopting said Constitution be
annulled and declared void ; and be it further

"Resolved, That the whole matter of a Constitution be referred
to a committee to be appointed by the chairman, with one member
from each State composing the late Confederate States."

Speaking to the resolution, Colonel Hickman said the United
Confederate Veterans had been in rather a tangle on the constitu-
tional question, and were now virtually without one.

General Gordon called General Stephen D. Lee to the chair,
and addressed the convention. He said he wanted to offer a word
of explanation in reference to his action in suspending the opera-
tion of the Constitution adopted at Birmingham. It was adopted
at the last hour, almost the last minute, of the meeting, hurriedly
and without proper consideration. Such an instrument, the funda-
mental law of such an organization, ought to be discussed thor-
oughly and understood by all. Very few understood this Constitu-
tion when it was adopted. After the Birmingham meeting he had
received innumerable objections to the Constitution from all over
the country, and he felt compelled in response thereto to suspend
action under it until this meeting could revise it, or, at least, look
carefully into its provisions. It was now in the hands of the associa-
tion, to do with it as seemed best. Others might understand the
Birmingham Constitution, but to him it was an absolute blank-
he could not understand it. Many of the leading men of the asso-
ciation had objected to its adoption, but it was carried through; and
now the question was presented as to what should be done with it.
The settling of this question was the first thing devolving upon the
meeting. He moved that the resolutions be adopted, and that a
Committee on Constitution be appointed, consisting of one member
from each State, the Indian Territory and the Northern Division.

28 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

General Cabell endorsed what the Commander-in-Chief had
said, and declared that the Birmingham Constitution was calculated
to break up the best organization on earth. Pie wanted the action
of the Commander-in-Chief sustained.

A member asked that the defects in the Constitution be pointed
out.

Colonel Hickman said one was that it did away with the His-
torical Committee, which many members considered a most useful
thing.

General Gordon also pointed out several defects.

The resolution was adopted; and General Gordon, who had
resumed the chair, appointed the following committee: Gen.
Stephen D. Lee, Mississippi, Chairman; Col. Wm. E. Mickle, Ala-
bama; John M. Harold, Arkansas; Gen. Clement A. Evans, Geor-
gia; Col. Frank Phillips, Florida; Gen. John L. Gait, Indian Ter-
ritory; Col. J. A. Chalaron, Louisiana; Gen. Joe Shelby, Missouri;
E. D. Hall, North Carolina; Gen. B. H. Teague, South Carolina;
Col. Jno. P. Hickman, Tennessee; Gen. A. T. Watts, Texas; Col.
J. Taylor Ellyson, Virginia.

General Lee announced that there would be a meeting of the
committee at his rooms at the Capitol Hotel on Friday morning, at
8 o'clock.

Col. J. A. Chalaron, Chairman of the Birmingham Constit^
tion Committee, in controversion of the statement made that the
report of that committee had never been read, desired to submit it.
It was referred to the Committee on Constitution.

A motion was adopted requiring all resolutions to be referred
to the Committee on Resolutions without being read.

Gen. Stephen D. Lee said that the Houston Committee of Ar-
rangements had prepared a programme for the entertainment of the
veterans at that hour, in deference to which the meeting ought to
adjourn.

Announcement was made that the Committee on Resolutions
would meet at the Auditorium at 9 o'clock in the morning.

The convention then adjourned to Thursday morning at 10
o'clock.

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SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895.

The Convention was called to order by General Gordon at
10:30 o'clock, and the proceedings were opened with prayer by Rev.
Dr. J. Wm. Jones, Chaplain-General.

Airs. Chapman, daughter of General Leonidas Polk, and the
daughters of Gens. D. H. Hill and A. P. Hill, were invited to
the stage, but were absent from the hall.

General Lee, from the Committee on Constitution, reported
that a constitution had been agreed upon by the Committee. It was
practically the same as the Jackson Constitution, and much shorter
than the later ones. It continued in force the Committee on His-
tory, which the Birmingham Constitution dissolved. It divided the
organization into three Departments — the Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment, the Army of Northern Virginia Department, and the Army
of Tennessee Department. It provided that there should not be a
common Memorial Day, but that Camps should observe such days
as best suited their sections.

Some of the Texas delegates objected to the provision in the
new Constitution which made five divisions in Texas, with five
Major Generals.

General Lee explained that this division was made on account
of the immense territory of the State, and the difficulty of getting
together from all parts of the State. There would be but one full
Major General, the others being merely brevet Major Generals.

Gen. John M. Claiborne moved to strike out the section that
gave Texas five Major Generals.

After some discussion, the motion of General Claiborne was
tabled, and the Constitution as reported by the committee was unan-
imously adopted, with applause.

The Committee on Credentials made a supplementary report,
showing the vote in the Convention to be distributed as follows:

Louisiana 176

Tennessee 89

Florida , 3b

Alabama 191

Mississippi 123

Texas 654

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South Carolina 86

Indian Territory 15

Missouri 67

Kentucky 67

Washington ( D. C. ) 1 1

Indiana 2

Virginia 64

North Carolina 21

Georgia 70

Maryland 2

Oklahoma 2

West Virginia v 2

New York 1

Arkansas 57

Gen. W. L. Cabell, from the Committee on the Davis Monu-
ment Fund, made the following report:

"Houston, Texas, May 22, 1895.

"Your Committee on the Jefferson Davis Monument would re-
spectfully report that despite the financial depression of the past
twelve months, progress has been made in the raising of funds for the
proposed monument to Jefferson Davis; and we submit herewith the
report of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, of Richmond,
Va., which gives in detail the work of the association during the year,
and we beg leave to submit the same as part of our report. We can-
not too earnestly urge upon the camps the importance of promptly
responding to the appeals of this Association, and of giving their earn-
est support to this work. It is very important that the monument to
President Davis should be erected in the very near future; and we
should earnestly invoke the hearty co-operation of the Confederate
Veterans of the South in this movement to honor the memory of Jef-
ferson Davis.

"•Respectfully submitted,

"W. L. Cabell,
"Chairman Jefferson Davis Monumental Committee."

Col. J. Taylor Ellyson, of Richmond, presented the following:
"The Jefferson Davis Monument Association would respectfully
report that in consequence of the severe financial stringency prevailing
during the past year in all parts of the country and which was es-
pecially sever in the Southern States, no effort has been made by us
until the past two or three months to secure funds to erect a memorial
in honor of President Jefferson Davis. During the past three months,
however, the Association has been making active efforts to enlist
the sympathy and co-operation of the Confederate organizations of

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the South in the movement to erect at the capital of the Confederate
States a monument to commemorate the virtues and patriotism of our
honored President.

"It was determined by the Association to ask that there should
be a concerted movement throughout the Southern States to have a
collection on the third of June, the anniversary of the birth of Mr.
Davis. The responses to the request have been very general ; and
the Association has received many cordial assurances of the deter-
mination of the Camps to respond generously to the appeal for funds
for this monument.

"It has been decided to lay the corner-stone of the monument
during the spring of 1896, and it is the earnest wish of the Confed-
erate organizations, and, indeed, of all the citizens of Richmond, to
make this a great occasion. We are encouraged to believe that with
earnest and united effort, the funds necessary for this monument
may be secured in the near future. It is greatly to be desired that this
testimonial of the love of our people for our great Civil leader should
be completed during the coming year; and this result can be easily
accomplished if we can have the hearty co-operation of all who love
the Confederate cause.

"Inclosed herewith the report of the treasurer, giving in detail
the condition of the finances of the Association, and showing a bal-
ance on hand May first of $12,551.18.

"All of which is respectfully submitted,

"J. Taylor Ellyson,

"President."

"To the President and Board of Directors of the Jefferson Davis
Monument Association, Richmond, Va., May 1, 1895:
"Gentlemen— Below I beg leave to submit my annual report
of the receipts and disbursements of the Association for the fiscal
year ending May 1, 1895:

RECEIPTS.

1894.

May 1. Balance on hand $11,318.99

I. J. Taylor Ellyson 260.00

4. W. L. Calhoun, treasurer John Ingram

Biovouac, Jackson, Tenn 174.95

4. Tohn W. Gates, treasurer 23.97

June 14. J. Taylor Ellyson, Mrs. C. D. K. Mears,

treasurer L. M. Association, Wilmington. . 100.00
25. Citizens of Savannah, by F. L. Rebovar .... 345.80
Aug. 8. C. F. Nelson, secretary and treasurer, Wi-
nona, Miss 12.05

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RECEIPTS.
1895.

April 1. Mrs. Sarah L. Cato .25

" 6. S. A. Cunningham 4.00

" 6. S. A. Cunningham, on account Little Roc'k

Davis Fund 162.62

6. Lizzie Bonner 2.00

27. W. A. Montgomery, Commander Camp

No. 26, Edwards, Miss 24.25

Interest on bank account to Jan. 1, 1895 252.64

Total $12,681.52

DISBURSEMENTS.
1894.

May 1. J. Taylor Ellyson $ 22.30

" 16. Dispatch Co 2.50

Oct. 13. S. A. Cunningham 105.54

1895.

May 1. Balance on hand 12,551.18

Total $12,651.52

Very respectfully,

John S. Ellet,

Treasurer.

Col. Ellyson said $1,000 had been secured since the report had
been prepared; and assurances had been given that several thousands
further would be sent in by June 3.

Gen. Cabell made a rousing speech for the monument fund. He
had called upon all the camps in the Trans-Mississippi Department
to meet, and take collections for the monument fund. He asked that
each member give what he could — not to fail to give because he could
not give largely, but to give what he could, so that the monument
would be builded by the whole Southern people. He called upon the
wives and sons and daughters of the veterans to do their share in
contributing to this fund.

Chaplain J. Wm. Jones, of the University of Virginia, warmly
seconded the motion to adopt the report ; and heartily endorsed the
appeal of his gallant old friend Gen. Cabell.

He said that so far as Jefferson Davis was concerned, he needed
no monument. The man who as soldier illustrated bright pages of
American history, and saved the day at Buena Vista by his cool
bravery, and marvelous skill — who as statesman graced the Senate of

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the United States when there were "giants in the land," and was the
peer of the "great triumvirate," Clay, Calhoun and Webster — who
was a peerless orator — who was the greatest Secretary of War the
country ever had, and left many changes which are now blessing the
service — who was a patriot true and tried — and who was a high-
toned Christian gentleman without fear and without reproach: this
man has indeed "erected a monument more lasting than bronze," and
needs no granite or marble to perpetuate his memory. He is no
longer "the uncrowned King of his people," but they have crowned
him with loving hearts, and he lives forever in their affections.

But we owe it to ourselves, and to the great principles of Con-
stitutional freedom for which we fought and of which Jefferson
Davis was the embodiment, that we should rear this monument to
teach our children that we were true to duty in the day of trial.

I know not why it is that our president has heaped upon him
the bitterest abuse and most malignant slanders of our enemies, that
he seems to bave been singled out for their especial hatred. I heard
Gen. Lee say once, "I do not know why they should be so bitter
against Mr. Davis. He only did what he could to establish the in-
dependence of the South, and the rest of us tried to do the same. If
he is guilty of any crime, the rest of us are equally guilty."

We owe it to ourselves and to posterity, that we should build
this monument in the old capitol of the Confederacy, and let it pro-
claim to future generations that our beloved Chief was no "rebel"
and no "tiaitor," but as pure a patriot as the world ever saw.

Now, I know that I am sometimes called "an unreconstructed
rebel." but I emphatically deny that either I or you were ever "rebels"
at all. George Washington and his compatriots were "rebels," be-
cause they fought against properly constituted authority, but we were
not "rebels" because we fought to uphold the constitution of our
fathers, and since we furled our glorious battleflags, packed our black-
ened guns (nearly all of them wrested from the enemy in battle),
stacked our bright muskets, and gave our paroles, there have been
no more law-abiding, peaceable, better citizens of the State and of
the United States on this continent than these old Confederate sol-
diers.

Our honored Commander-in-Chief, the gallant chivalric Gor-
don, one of Lee's trusted soldiers, but voiced the sentiment of the
people of our Southland, when he stood up on the floor of the
Senate, and pledged us to stand by the government in suppressing
rebellion in Chicago. And when our "lame lion," the peerless
orator, Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, offered his resolutions
endorsing the President in enforcing the law, he but echoed the sen-
timents of his Confederate comrades.

Yes; we are loyal citizens of these United States, ready to
unite with our brethren of every section to make our common country

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the grandest, the freest, the most prosperous that the sun shines
upon. Why should we not be proud of "old glory"? Why should
we not march under its folds and glory in its luster? It was de-
signed from the Coat-of-Arms of our Washington. "The Star
Spangled Banner" was written by a Southern man, while Southern
troops were winning glorious victories on Southern soil. Our Tay-
lor, our Scott, our Jefferson Davis, our J. E. Johnston, our Robert
Edward Lee, our Magruder, our Albert Sidney Johnston, our Stone-
wall Jackson, our Beauregard and others of that brilliant galaxy of
Southern officers bore it on the most glorious fields of Mexico, and
planted it on the walls of the Montezumas. It is true that we
fought against it for four years, when it r.epresented what was ab-
horrent to our views of constitutional freedom; but it is our flag
still and we can join with heart and soul in singing:

"The Star-Spangled Banner!
Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free

And the home of the brave."

But while this is true, let it be distinctly understood that we
are not going around with our fingers in our mouths, whimpering
and whining and asking pardon, and promising to do so no more.
No, sirs; with head erect, we look the world squarely in the eyes,
and say: "We thought we were right in the brave old days, when
to do battle was sacred duty; but now, in the light of subsequent
events, we know we were right; and with malice toward none and
charity for all, we are asking pardon of no living man." Let us
embody these sentiments in a noble monument to our grand old
leader.

We have already in the capital of the Confederacy monuments
to grand old Stonewall Jackson, and gallant A. P. Hill, and peer-
less Robert Lee, and the true hero of the war, the private soldier of
the Confederacy. Let us now cap it all with this monument, and
make it worthy of Jefferson Davis and the cause he loved so well.

That noble report on history presented on yesterday by that
gallant, glorious soldier and stainless gentleman, Stephen D. Lee,
embodies principles that we ought to carry home with us and put in
practice. Let us utilize the enthusiasm of this hour and put in
granite and bronze the life-speaking embodiment of these principles.
I have traveled 1428 miles to come here, and I would readily travel
14,000 miles to witness the scene here on yesterday when we hailed
and greeted the "Daughter of the Confederacy," and she acknowl-
edged it with that queenly grace which made us crown her queen of
our hearts. God bless her!

But I shall count it a higher privilege still if I may carry back

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home the assurance that the Veterans of our Southland will unite
hearts and hands in honoring themselves by rearing the monument.

Dr. Jones continued in this strain, and amid the cheers of his
comrades and cries of "Go on"; and proceeded to engineer a sub-
scription for the monument, which amounted to over $10,000. He
proposed that the camps be called upon to state what they could
promise to raise for the fund; and responses were made as follows:

Camp No. 2, New Orleans $145.00

Camp LeRoy Stafford, Shreveport, La 500.00

Camp N. B. Forrest, Chattanooga, Tenn 500.00

Camp Jeff Davis, Alexandria, La 100.00

Camp Ruston, Ruston, La 150.00

Camp Veteran Conf. States Cavalry, New Orleans 250.00

Camp Raphael Semmes, Mobile 250.00

Camp R. E. Lee, Opelousas, La 100.00

Camp Ben Humphreys, Crystal Springs, Miss 25.00

Camp Kit Mott, Holly Springs, Miss 50.00

Camp Walthall, Meridian, Mjiss 25.00

Camp W. A. Montgomery, Edwards, Miss 100.00

Camp Ben McCulloch, Cameron, Tex 100.00

Camp Ben McCulloch, Decatur, Tex 50.00

Camp Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Miss 100.00

Camp R. L. Gibson, Evergreen, La 25.00

Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Dalton, Ga 25.00

Camp Victor Maurin, Donaldsonville, La 25.00

Camp W. J. Hardee, Birmingham, Ala 100.00

Camp Mouton, Mansfield, La 50.00

Camp John C. Upton, Huntsville, Tex 50.00

Camp Palestine, Palestine, Tex 100.00

Camp Fred Ault, Knoxville, Tenn 300.00

Camp J. E. B. Stuart, Terrell, Tex 50.00

Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Tyler, Tex 50.00

Camp Moore, Tangipahoa, La 50.00

Camp Calcasieu, Lake Charles, La 50.00

Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Corpus Christi, Tex 187.00

Camp Howsly Martin, Athens, Tex 50.00

Camp Granbury, Granbury, Tex 50.00

Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Paris, Tex 175.00

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Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Kingston, Tex 25.00

Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Beaumont, Tex 25.00

Camp Rockwall, Rockwall, Tex 50.00

Camp John Pelham, Coleman, Tex 50.00

Camp Wm. S. Moody, Fairfield, Tex 50.00

Camp Pat Cleburne, Cleburne, Tex 80.00

Camp Cabell, Bentonville, Ark . 25.00

Camp Bob Stone, Montague, Tex 25.00

Camp Joe Johnston, Mexia, Tex 175.00

Camp Hannibal H. Boone, Tex 100.00

Camp John B. Hood, Texas 100.00

Camp Magruder, Texas 200.00

Camp R. Q. Mills, Texas 25.00

Camp Jno. H. Morgan, Ind. Ter 50.00

Camp Winnie Davis, Texas 25.00

Camp Collin County, Texas 500.00

Camp W. P. Townsend, Texas 75-00

Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Texas 50.00

Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Texas 10.00

Camp Jeff Davis, Texas 25.00

Camp Stonewall Jackson, Texas 100.00

Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Texas 100.00

Camp Bell County Ex-Confeds., Texas 100.00

Camp Cabell, Texas 30.00

Camp Robert E. Lee, Texas 20.00

Camp John G. Walker, Texas 10.00

Camp 'Geo. E. Pickett, Virginia 100.00

Camp Ex-Confederates Coryell Co., Texas 50.00

Camp Tom Green, Texas 10.00

Camp F. R. Lubboch, Texas 5.00

Camp Crockett, Texas 100.00

Camp Rogers, Texas 50.00

Camp Albert Sidney Johnston, Texas 100.00

Camp Geo. D. Mamon, Texas 50.00

Camp C. M. Winkler, Texas 100.00

Camp John C. G. Key, Texas 50.00

Camp R. E. Lee, Texas 100.00

Camp Bessemer, Alabama 25.00

Camp Alvarado, Texas 25.00

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Camp Horace Randall, Texas 50.00

Camp Sul. Ross, Texas 50.00

Camp Hill County, Texas 50.00

Camp Jeff Davis, Texas 10.00

Camp Sul. Ross, Texas 25.00

Camp Henry W. Allen, Louisiana 50.00

Camp Braxton Bragg, Louisiana 50.00

Camp Pat Cleburne, Texas 100.00

Camp Buchel, Texas 50.00

Camp Arcadia, Louisiana 50.00

Camp R. E. Lee, Texas 25.00

Camp W. A. Percy, Mississippi 25.00

Camp Washington, Texas 50.00

Camp General Turner Ashby, Virginia 50.00

Camp Emmett Lynch, Texas 10.00

Camp Charles M. Shelley, Alabama 25.00

Camp Col. James Walker, Texas 25.00

Camp Feliciana, Louisiana 25.00

Camp McGregor, McGregor, Tex 10.00

Camp I. W. Garrett, Marion, Ala 25.00

Camp Catawba, Rock Hill, S. C 25.00

Camp Jno. A. Wharton, Alvin, Tex 25.00

Camp Aiken-Smith, Roanoke, Ala 25.00

Camp Ras. Redwine, Henderson, Tex 25.00

Camp Willis L. Lang, Marlin, Tex 50.00

Camp Palmetto Guard, Charleston, S. C 250.00

Camp Ruffin, Troy, Ala 20.00

Camp Ike Turner, Livinston, Tex 25.00

Camp W. P. Rogers, San Saba, Tex 10.00

Camp T. J. Bullock, Lowndesboro, Ala 25.00

Camp Dick Anderson, Sumter, S. C 75-°°

Camp Jamison, Guthrie, Okla 25.00

Camp Gordon, Waynesboro, Ga 25.00

Camp J. E. Johnston, Wooster, Ark 25.00

Camp Confed. Surv. Assn., Augusta, Ga 200.00

Camp Sam Dill, New Lewisville, Ark 25.00

Camp John Bowie Strange, Charlottesville, Va 100.00

Camp Caddo Mills, Caddo Mills, Tex 10.00

Camp J. Ed. Murray, Pine Bluff, Ark 30.00

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Camp Benning, 'Columbus, Ga ioo.oo

Camp Mountain Remnant, Burnet, Tex 25.00

Camp Confed. Surv., Madisonville, Ky IOO.OO

Camp Rien, Ridgeway, S. C 5.00

Camp Drurry J. Brown, Hazlehurst, Miss 25.00

Camp Jack McClure, Rising Star, Tex 25.00

Camp John Pelbam, Comanche, Tex 25.00

Camp Walton, Beeville, Tex 50.00

Camp R. M. Hinson, Bastrop, La 100.00

Camp Gen. Frank Gardner, Lafayette, La 25.00

Camp Magnolia, Woodville, Tex '. 25.00

Camp Hardeman, Yoakum, Tex 25.00

Camp P. C. Woods, San Marcos, Tex 50.00

Camp Jones County, Anson, Tex 5.00

Camp Raguet, Nacogdoches, Tex 50.00

Camp San Felipe, Sealy, Tex 20.00

Camp G. T. Beauregard, Crowley, La 25.00

Camp Marion, Marion, S. C 50.00

Camp J no. C. Burks, Clarksville, Tex 50.00

Camp Manor, Manor, Tex 25.00

Col H. A. Newman said that when the call was made for
camps to pledge contributions, Missouri had not responded. The
reason was that the State had not been organized into the Associa-
tion until a month ago, and that the veterans there had just raised
$115,000 to build a Confederate Soldiers' Home, and were now sup-
porting 130 veterans. However, Missouri would raise as much
money for the monument as any other State.

Several battleflags were displayed upon the stage at this junc-
ture, and created great enthusiasm. One was carried by a one-armed
veteran. It was the battleflag of the Third Georgia Regiment, and
the bearer was J. W. Bagby, who had carried it during the war until
he lost an arm in 1864 at Yellow Tavern, where J. E. B. Stuart
fell. Gen. Gordon called attention to an old tattered and faded
flag that hung upon the presiding officer's table. He said he had the
honor to present to the meeting a flag with as dear memories about
its folds as ever clung to any banner on earth. Its color had faded,
but the memory of the man over whose command it floated would
never fade. It was the flag that was carried by the regiment that
led the charge and saved the day ot Buena Vista, commanded by

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Jefferson Davis! This flag was carried on his coffi.n from New Or-
leans to Richmond, when his remains were taken to the latter place.

This little talk and the waving of the flag was greeted with tre-
mendous cheering and applause.

On motion, it was decided to go into the matter of choosing
the meeting place for next year.

GENERAL WISE'S SPEECH.

Gen. Peyton F. Wise took the stand, and placed Richmond,
Va., in nomination in the following speech:

"General, Grand Commander of United Confederate Veterans, Com-
rades, Ladies and Gentlemen of Houston:

"After a weary journey of 1400 miles, I rejoice to be at last
upon the soil of Texas. I rejoice that although I am here for the
first time, and at the end of so long an interval from my mother
State, I am yet as much at home here as there. I rejoice most of all
that I am a veteran among veterans of the best army that ever trod
the earth. My wife, who is a veteran too in every fibre of her, ex-
cept her years, put my badge on, and smoothed the wrinkles out of my
Lee Camp uniform and bade me come hither upon the plea that
these encampments must in a sense soon cease, and that the number
of those who attend them must be fewer and fewer as the years roll
by until they all become a tale that has been told. Not so, I told
her, with a little tear over the constancy, the fortitude, the devo-
tion, the pluck of the women. I stand here to-day in the midst of
ranks that never were or will be broken by the loss of a single
soldier, true to his cause and his home. All the clods of all the
valleys, with all their rest-breathing daisies, nay, Ossa piled upon
Pilion of superincumbent burial, could never keep away from his
roll-call and his biouvac a single brave heart that ever stood for
honor upon the field of honor. Lee and Jackson, the Johnstons and
Hood, Stuart and Forrest, are just as real as the splendid soldier
who wields yonder baton to-day. The choir that raised the 'rebel
yell' never lost a note. All its music in highest register goes sound-
ing down the ages because it is the paean of glory. The Confederate
flag was never folded, was never weary, although the patriot Ryan
told us so, because it always symbolled and will always symbol im-
mortal liberties, whose fitting home is its stars. It will float forever
upon every heaven-kissing breeze.

"I am at home here because I am the brother of every man who
went to immortal glory at the bidding of him who once led Hood's
fighting brigade; of every man, of all those who offered the sterling
price of unwearying constancy and devotion for the safety and honor
of the common heritage; of every man who doffed the priestly gar-

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merit, and rallied around him the Creole and the Anglo-Saxon, the
children of the civil and the common law alike, to be in serried
ranks in the very van of liberty ; of every Mississippian who fol-
lowed the lead of that Lee who in war emulated the highest glories
of a name which seems always to have been associated with what
is best and truest in arms, and has survived in peace to illustrate
that the gentleness of woman is always the associate of the bravest
heart ; of every man who never became restless in the doing of his
heart-work, if only because Fighting Joe Wheeler was in the lead,
and would never stay while the soil of his country was encumbered
by a foe; of every man who ever dozed under a palmetto tree, to be
more alert when Hampton rescued from the red field of carnage the
white plume of Stuart, and kept it always stainless in his heart and
upon his head ; of every man of the land of Macon who found a new
inspiration in the name of one of the noblest Romans of them all —
that D. H. Hill upon whose countenance dwelt in comliest fashion
the light and smile of battle, because the tar-heel pathway was the
road to duty; of every country man of him who made the field of
Shiloh a tale to be told forever, because the ablest tactician, the most
princely form, sat upon his horse in the very foremost of the fight,
calmly sat, with a smile upon his face, dealing triumph to his men
till the last refluence of his heart's blood surged upon his spurs, whose
watch wherever it may 'be to-day, whether in worthy or unworthy
hands, will tell the time of day only to the highest manhood, the
most Christian knight; of every follower of him who was and is the
hero of the common people, and an example of the fact that in the
Forrests as in the courts are to be found the Napoleons with a star;
and of every comrade of to-day who hangs upon the lips of him who
was the bow of promise to every man in the Southern army who
feared that danger might come too close to Lee, and who has lived
to show how a man surcharged with the most loving memories of a
post filled with the glories and the liberties of his section, may be
the most orderly, the most faithful, the most devoted servant of the
whole country. God bless Gordon and keep long his scarred face
that holy women might kiss as the seal of a heavenly consecration !
And, finally, you are my brothers, and Virginia is your own, who
ever saw the gleam of the best and bluest and truest saber that ever
flashed athwart the sky of war, who fattened her soil with your
blood, and made her illustrious forever by your immortal valor.
Amen, and amen!

"I come to invite you to make your next encampment in our
city; to sound the bugle call of another and different 'On to Rich-
mond' ; to those who have a right to be there, with or without in-
vitation, because they shed their blood to save, not to win her. Her
official bodies, her Council and her Chamber of Commerce, greet
you through us, and bid you to come and stand upon her hills and

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by her flowing river; to see how the city of your love, which is your
very own, the chosen seat of your Confederacy, has fared as a trust
in their hands; how they have built her up in forms of beauty and
things of life to be worthy of your renewed adoption. Her women,
not less true because some men have faint-hearted fallen by the
wayside and no longer care for the goal, not less sweet because they
no longer feed upon the sorghum of those times, not less gorgeously
appareled because they no longer attire themselves in the home-spun
and the make-shifts of the good old days, but always wearing the
true colors and their hearts upon their sleeves, whether balloon or
skin-tight, ask you with all their might and main and with all their
dear hearts, to come. Fifty thousand of your dead who sleep in
Hollywood and Oakwood, who are the children of every State in
the Confederacy, ask to have you commune with them to catch the
inspiration which will make the new South, it may be, in fairer flow-
ers, in more fields, in fatter cattle, upon larger hills, in busier hum of
more varied industries, but continue the Old South always in all
that tends to the high manhood, and make to the real glory.

"The very stones of her streets cry aloud to be trodden again
by those who traversed them on their way to her battle-fronts — to
every field where charged to victory the Army of Northern Virginia,
and where swelled upon the air the chimes of the 'rebel yell.'

"Her monuments majestically summon you to come. In her
eastern section, upon the hill of the church, where broke from
Henry's frenzied lips the cry of 'Liberty or Death,' stands in human
form the echo of that cry — the private soldier of the Confederate
States, the soldier that multiplied, whether hungry and tentless or
fed and sheltered, whether travel-stained and weary or fresh from
slumber upon the bosom of his mother earth, made the best army
that the world ever knew. The earth cannot contain his glory, be-
cause it ascends to heaven, and because he is unique, the one soldier
that earth ever produced who was general as well as soldier. He
stands they say upon Pompey's Pillar. Not so ! He was no selfish
conquerer. His lofty column is his own, standing upon his own
soil, made of stones dug from the bowels of his own hills, and
fashioned by his own people. The rags, thank God, have dropped
from his limbs. He is as jaunty and trim as the smartest blue
coat of them. all. The lean and hungry look has fled from his face.
The inspired artist has obeyed Christ's injunction to feed his lambs.
His back is to the Chickahominy, because the enemy is no longer
there. His face is turned towards the city Decause he wants to watch
the business of his people, to see if it be fairly and squarely done.
His musket is not as bright as of yore. It has been bronzed to keep
it always ready to be the impregnable defense of the liberties of his
people.

"Here in the central station, in the chief seat, is the best piece

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of monumental art in all the world. Its crowning feature is he
who, although surrounded by the best statesmen of the revolutionary
era, and although sitting upon a war horse that sniffeth the battle
from afar, is yet majestic and dignified, himself pointing the way of
peace and war, and, above all, that freedom is the surest foundation
of progress and happiness. Aye, he is the father of his country.
Hardby, the gift of the mothers of the Anglo-Saxon people to the
best representatives of the Anglo-Saxon race that ever trod this
globe, stands he of the Cromwell mold, he the Old Testament
Christian, the sword of the Lord and of Gideon upon him, ready as
ever to smite hip and thigh ; and he shall stand there forever, a
Stonewall to memoralize the way in which Virginia and her sisters
should be defended.

"There, upon a splendid boulevard, more beautiful than the
Elysian Fields which lead to Napoleon's arch of triumph, or than
the lindens which shade the statue of Frederick the Great, stands
a martial figure, ever alert to catch the last order of Jackson, which
rang out like a clarion just before he crossed over the river to rest
under the shade of the trees — 'Let A. P. Hill prepare for action.'

"Yonder in the West, in the regions of the setting sun, with
magnificent poise of figure and face as of soul, fit as always to lead
the hosts of earth, rides Lee, riding toward the jocund day that
stands tiptoe upon the peaks of Paradise — when he shall be better
still, fit to marshal the very hosts of heaven.

"Anon will rise the similacrum of the bold and fearless rider,
the fiercest paladin and the gentlest gentleman, the man with the
verve of the whirlwind, whether he be kept a dainty slipper from
the mud, or held the commonweal of a nation upon the couch of his
lance, the smile of utmost joy on his face, whether he listened to the
strains of Swinny's banjo or charged better than the Six Hundred at
Balaklava, the very presentiment, let it be of our darling J. E. B.
Stuart.

"But there is a monument which shall be, but which God save
the mark, is yet unbuilded, which most of all, orders you to come.
Did I say yet to be builded? Again, I say, God save the mark!
By the riverside of Hendrick Hudson's flowing river, just away
from the busiest hum of the most multitudinous city, just on the
skirts of a progress, seemingly the most splendid while it is the most
selfish, rises apace an erection, the free gift, without gleaming from
the public store, of a free people, lifted above their progress, stealing
aw>ay from their hum, to be grateful to the savior of the people's
union. An illustrious soldier and president is to be canonized in
the affections of a people every way composite, and the expression of
that affection is to be a heaven-kissing monument. Let Grant's
monument rise, the higher the better, the sooner the more fitting.
He deserved it. He was not composite; he was genuine, unadul-

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terated, unlimited Saxon pluck and pertinacity, fighting always in
the splendid way in which God gave him to fight for the thing he
believed in and loved. He deserved it even from us, if only be-
cause in the moment of his triumph, he mounted no triumphal car,
but said, 'Let us have peace,' and acted it. But for him and
dead Lincoln, God knows what would have become of the Union,
even after the war !

"But shall his monument arise quicker than our monument —
the monument of us, the homogeneous — us, the best expression of
the all-subduing, the Anglo-Saxon race — us, the most capable be-
cause the most inspired ; us, the most obligated because the most
blessed ; us, who love our public men because we make them and
they are part of us; us, who are inspired by their examples, because
like the South wind upon a bank of violets, which steals and gives
them odor, we teach them what to inspire.

"What, then, is our monument, and by the name of what one
of us shall it be called, although it be the monument of everyone of
us? It shall be a monument to Jefferson Davis, President of the
Confederate States of America, in the capital of the Confederate
States of America; and the prime duty of this grand encampment in
the Spring of 189b, when men's hearts are budding like the flowers
and turning to love, to lay its corner-stone in Richmond. Who,
then, was Jefferson Davis? Born in the North of us in the land
which Virginia gave to the United States, he lived in the South of
us. He knew us, on every side of us, in every part of us. Inspiring
and inspired by us, impregnated by us and filling us in turn, he be-
came the very type and father of us. He had known 'every joy
which can fill the human heart. Blessed in his store, thrice blessed
in his home, he led that happiest of all lives, the life of a cultured
country gentleman. First found in public, he was leading his Mis-
sissippians to immortal fame upon the plains of Buena Vista. He
became in turn representative, senator, cabinet officer, president, his
name blown about the world as the chief of established order, as
the leader of a new essay of the Anlgo-Saxon race, in freer govern-
ment ; as the Commander-in-Chief of an army the like of which
for valor and fortitude the world had never seen. By and by the
shadows came. At the very pinnacle of his freedom, the gyves were
put upon his wrists. At the moment when at Fortress Monroe he
had learned to mount with the eagle and to look with eagle's eyes
upon the sun, the sun went down, and a bull's-eye lantern scorched
his very eyeballs. In the very nick of his truth to his people, to
liberty and to law, he was dubbed a traitor and commended to brand
and penalty as a felon. He was the vicar of your manacles, of
your tortured eyesight, of your imputed treason and felony. He
bore his suffering with all the pluck of Confederate armies, with all
the grace and sweetness and dignity of Lee. He was worthy of you.

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But there were righteous judges in those days; the charger slunk
away, ashamed to pollute his presence, and his suffering ended.
Once more he is the inmate of a country home, once more blessed
by the woman who exalts and who consoles, in the person of his
noble wife, in the person of his noble daughter, who has become
the daughter of everyone of us because she was born in our Con-
federacy, because she was his daughter, and because she is one of
the noblest of all noble women. There he lived in peace and dig-
nity and honor, still worthy of us until he was gathered to our
other dead, and was brought to be buried on the banks of that river
which brought the first of the Saxons to our shore, and which mur-
murs its sweet requiem to one of the best and last of them. It is
his monument that shall be our monument, whose corner-stone you
shall lay in 1896. Will you, can you refuse? I think not."

'Col. Pickett, of Tennessee, on behalf of the delegates from that
State, seconded the nomination of Richmond.

Major T. G. Barker, of Charleston, S. C, came forward,
saying that the people of Charleston asked the honor of entertaining
the veterans at their next meeting. He introduced Dr. T. Gregg
Simmons, mayor pro tern, of Charleston, who presented an official
invitation from the Council of that city, as follows:

"City of Charleston, S. C,

"Office of Clerk of Council,

"May 17, 1895-

"Whereas, the United Confederate Veterans are about to hold
their annual reunion in Houston, Texas, and

"Whereas, it is highly desirable that their next reunion should
be held in the City of Charleston, which, by reason of its historic
interest, must prove attractive to the veterans; therefore be it

"Resolved, That the City Council of Charleston hereby ex-
tends a cordial invitation to the United Confederate Veterans to
hold their annual reunion in this city, assuring them a hearty wel-
come to our homes and hospitality ;

"Resolved, That an engrossed copy of these proceedings be
furnished to the delegates who will go from this city, with the re-
quest that the same be submitted to the veterans for their consid-
eration at the approaching assembly.

"I certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of pre-
amble and resolutions adopted by the City 'Council, May 14, 1895.

"W. W. Simons,

(SEAL) "Clerk of Council."

Major J. A. Smythe, President of the Charleston Cotton Ex-
change, was then introduced. He said he represented the Cotton

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Exchange, the Chamber of Commerce, the Young Men's Business
Club, and all the commercial organizations of the city, and he bore
from them all a cordial invitation to the veterans to assembly in
their city. They were business men, but their welcome was no less
warm and sincere on that account. The welcome there would not
be more sincere than in the sister cities, for hospitality was espec-
ially a Southern trait, but it would be so cordial that there could be
no doubt of its sincerity. Charleston, he declared, was a city of
the Old South, with nothing of the New South about it; and there
were many points of historic interest about the city that would come
very near the hearts of those who wore the gray.

Major Barker again took the stand, and read the following
communication :

"Fayetteville, N. C.
"My dear Barker:

"As I cannot have the pleasure of meeting our friends in
Houston, and as you have been kind enough to act as my proxy, I beg
you to fill two commissions for me. The first is to express my great
regret at my inability to be present at the Reunion; and the second
is that you will in my name ask that the next meeting be held in
Charleston. Ask Gen. Maxey, Judge Culberson, Senator Mills,
Judge Reagan, and indeed every Confederate veteran soldier you
see to use his influence in behalf of Charleston. I will meet our
friends there, and aid in giving them a royal welcome. Nothing
would gratify me more than to meet again some of our comrades
of the immortal Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia;
and it is a great disappointment to me that I cannot do so at Hous-
ton, So bring them and all Texas to Charleston next year. Give
my best wishes to my old comrades; and believe me to be,

"Sincerely yours,

"Wade Hampton."

Major Barker said he had nothing but the kindest feelings for
Richmond. He had left his home in Charleston in May, 1861, and
spent four years in the defense of Richmond. He referred with
great eloquence to the part played by South Carolina in the war and
the events leading up to it, to the devotion of the City of Charleston
to the cause of liberty, to Fort Sumter and Moultrie, and the many
glories surrounding their history; to the splendid legion which
Hampton led to so many glorious triumphs on the battlefield, and
declared that all these united in making Charleston a peculiarly fit
place for a meeting of this association of grand old heroes.

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Major Barker, who went side by side with Hampton from the
firing of the first gun to the folding of the flags at Appomattox,
made a most excellent impression, and the close of his speech was
followed by great applause.

Capt. Thos. A. Hugenin, the last commander at Fort Sumter
waved from the platform the flag which floated above its historic
battlements from April 13, 1 861, to the evacuation of Charleston
in February, 1865.

Gen. Geo. H. Laws, of Florida, whose fame as a soldier was
known to every veteran in the hall, seconded the nomination of
Charleston in a graceful and eloquent speech.

Gen. Lee who was in the chair, said he took pleasure in pre-
senting to the convention one of the most daring and dashing leaders
of cavalry, who had fought under the Southern Cross, Gen. Jo.
Shelby, of Missouri.

When the stalwart frame of the old raider came to the front,
the house broke into cheers that lasted several minutes.

Gen. Shelby called attention to the fact that Missouri had been
in the deal from the first and all the way through, and though the
present "shuffle was pretty tough," she would try not to get lost.
He merely rose, he said, to introduce Mayor Davis, of Kansas City,
who desired to invite the veterans to hold their next meeting in
that municipality.

Mr. Davis said that having been born in 1861, the year the
war began, he felt some embarrassment in speaking to an audience
of veterans, but he felt fortified for the effort when he remembered
that he came from a State that had furnished gallant old Jo.
Shelby, and others of the bravest of the Confederate soldiers. He
came to invite the Association to hold its next Reunion in Kansas
City, the metropolis of Missouri, the centre of the universe. If any-
body doubted that it was really the centre of the universe, let him
come to Kansas City, and he would be shown that the sky comes
down at the same distance all around the city." Kansas City not
only desired to entertain the veterans, but she was amply able to do
so. Her splendid hotel facilities insured her capacity to comfort-
ably house all who might come; and her hustling groceries and
overflowing warehouses proved her ability to feed the revived armies
of the Confederacy. He described in glowing terms the chivalry

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of the men and beauty of Kansas City, and declared that for hos-
pitality the citizens of that giant young municipality were unsur-
passed by any people on earth. He had heard some people say that
Missouri was too far North; and in answer to this, replied that
there were as many, if not more, survivors of the army which wore
the tattered gray in Missouri as in any other State. Continuing, he
drew one of the most telling word pictures imaginable, on behalf of
Missouri and Kansas City; and if a vote had been taken immediately
after the last word had died from his lips, no other city would have
been in it with Kansas City.

Gen. Clement A. Evans, of Georgia, put Atlanta in nomina-
tion. He referred in terms of tender eloquence to the other cities
that were asking the coveted prize of entertaining this fast-diminish-
ing company of chivalrous heroes — to South Carolina's claim upon
the patriotic gratitude of the South, to the cherished place held by
Virginia in the hearts of the Confederates, and of the pleasure it
would be to all to assemble once more in Richmond, the capital
of the dead but stainless nation they had loved so well. Gen. Evans
referred in a pleasant way to the claims put forward by Kansas
City, and said that her eloquent young mayor had disposed of her
chances of success when he said the city was in the centre of the uni-
verse. "Scientists tell us that the centre of the universe is the hot-
test place in it ; and the veterans don't want to go where it is quite
as hot as that." He told of Georgia's devotion to the Confederate
cause, of the suffering of her people, cheerfully borne for duty's
sake; of the ruin and desolation left on every hand after Sherman's
fiery march to the sea ; of the flower of Georgia's chivalry that had
died upon so many fields of valor and blood ; of the knightly men
still living who would like to greet their old comrades with genuine
Atlanta welcome and real Georgia hospitality.

Col. W. L. Calhoun, of Atlanta, followed Gen. Evans in be-
half of his home city, and spoke as follows:

JUDGE CALHOUN'S SPEECH.

"Comrades:

"Within the past few days, for the first time many ot us who
have come from distant states of the South have stood upon the
soil of Texas and realized her greatness and her unlimited possi-
bilities. With an area ot territory far greater than that of any

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State in the Union, countless resources, and inhabited by a brave,
energetic and intelligent people, it is impossible to conceive of the
splendor and magnificence of her future. In the constellation rep-
resenting the American Union the Lone Star of Texas shines with
surpassing brilliancy. From the day of the battle cry of San Ja-
cinto, 'Remember the Alamo!' down to the splendid heroism ot
Hood's Texas Brigade on the bloody fields of Virginia, the bravery
and patriotism of her sons have not been paralleled. It is an honor
to my own State that connected with this brigade was the Eight-
eenth Georgia Regiment, which from long association with the
Texans was called the Third Texas. Sons of the South from every-
where have come to this beautiful city ,to meet together once more
as comrades and brothers, to extend to each other the right hand of
fellowship, and, as survivors of the manliest struggle of ancient or
modern times, to tell the world that we were not traitors, but
fought for principles which are not dead, and which must live if
the American government is preserved. I cannot forbear on this
occasion from speaking of the President of the Confederacy, who
in his great work, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern-
ment, so clearly demonstrated this truth. No man was so abused;
no man suffered for the cause of the South as he, and none ever
endured such trials with such patience and heroism. I believe that
when in the future the truthful historian comes to measure up the
great leaders of the South, Jefferson Davis will be accorded a high
place in the temple of fame, and posterity will regard him as a
statesman, soldier and patriot worthy of any time and any people.
The splendid Reunion which we have had here is now drawing to
a close, but we shall meet again next year. 1 am not surprised that
invitations are coming from the different parts of the South, for I
can conceive of no higher honor to any place than to have assembled
within its borders this great body of United Confederate Veteran:,.
An invitation has been placed in my hands, and I now have the
honor of presenting it. I think it unnecessary, for me to emphasize
what is contained in these communications.

"The invitation comes from a city which has had two births.
The first in 1847, and under the old regime. It grew rapidly, and
became a beautiful and attractive young city; but war — grim vis-
aged war — came, and it presented a prize most eagerly sought by
the invading arm}'. Johnston and Hood and Stephen D. Lee and
Stewart and Hardee and Cheatham and others, with their brave
men for many weary days and nights most gallantly resisted every
assault. The roar of the cannon, the rattle of the musketry, the
groans of the dying, were heard within and without, and her fair
plains were drenched with blood. At last the fatal day came. It
could be no longer held against overwhelming numbers. Our army
evacuated, and the city was surrendered to Gen. Sherman by my

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honored father, then mayor and who invoked protection for the
women and children. The enemy entered the city, and there fol-
lowed a scene which beggars description, has blackened the pages of
history, and for cruelty is unparalleled in the annals of the world.
On the 7th of September, 1864, over the protest of Gen. Hood and
the mayor, Gen. Sherman issued an order expelling from their homes
the_ entire population of Atlanta, including women and children.
This inhuman order was carried out, and the city depopulated. The
suffering and humiliation which this produced cannot be expressed.
Not satisfied with this, upon the evacuation of the city, the torch was
applied, and in one night the once beautiful Southern city was en-
tirely destroyed, and became in the language of General' Sherman,
"the ruined city." Passing through shortly after its destruction, a
spectacle was presented which can never be effaced from memory.
With the exception of a building here and there which escaped the
flames, the entire city was destroyed. Blackened walls were seen
everywhere, and chimneys were standing like grim sentinels on
her streets. Scarcely and sign of life was visible, and the dogs were
running wild among her debris. It seemed that Atlanta's sun had
set and her course ended forever, and that she could not rise again.
But not so. After the war, her people returned to their ruined
homes, and determined to rebuild the city. Then was her second
birth. Strong Southern hearts and Southern hands and Southern
brains engaged in the great work, and now we present to the world
a beautiful new city erected upon the ruins of the old, yet young in
years, but reaching out with wonderful strides to still greater pro-
portions. We invite you to come and see it, and rejoice with us in
our prosperity and the rehabilitation of our Southern land. You
will find there warm Southern hearts and hospitable Southern homes.
Her gates will be opened wide that all may come. You can still
see some of the evidences of the great battles fought in her defense.
Come while you may, and revive the memories of the past. Com-
rades, the scenes of the great struggle painted by Southern heroes
will live forever, but the actors therein are passing away. Nearly
all the gret leaders have already gone — Davis, Lee^ Jackson, John-
ston,. Beauregard, Bragg, the Hills, Forrest, Stuart, Cleburne and
others. Many of the officers of lesser rank and numbers of the
private soldiers have gone

'To where beyond their voices there is peace.'

"Then, while we live, let us never give up these Reunions,
never let us neglect the great work left to us of preserving the truth
of history andto transmit untarnished to posterity Southern honor,
Southern patriotism and Southern manhood. Comrades, Atlanta

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greets you; come within her gates — stand once more upon her bat-
tlefields— mingle with her sons and daughters, and let us tell over
again

'The story of the glory
Of the men who wore the gray.' ';

Col. Christian, of Richmond, said he needed no further creden
tials to that body than that within one hundred yards of the "bloody
angle" at Spottsylvania, he had lost a leg, and appeared now upon
an artificial one. He had come to Houston armed with resolutions
from the City Council and other civic organizations of Richmond,
asking the Association to meet there next year, but understanding
that the vote would not come up to-day, had left them in his trunk
at the hotel. He would, therefore, merely say that the invitation
to the veterans to meet in Richmond was cordial and sincere. They
expected to lay the corner-stone of the Davis monument in that city
next May; that they could not do without the presence of the vet-
erans, and it would be too much to expect that they would meet in
convention in some other city, and then attend that ceremony too.

A Texan, who said he was too proud to wear an artificial leg,
so went on one with the help of crutches, seconded the nomination
of Richmond.

Gen. Eshleman, of Louisiana, also seconded the nomination of
Richmond, and said Louisiana would cast her full vote for the old
capital.

Another Louisiana delegate presented the opposition view, saying
that part of the vote of the Pelicans would go to Charleston.

At this stage, a telegram from T. C. DeLeon, representing the
citizens of Mobile, addressed to Capt. Wm. E. Mickle, was read.
He expressed the earnest wish that the old veterans would honor
Mobile by meeting there in 1896. This message came at too late
an hour to receive consideration.

A recess of thirty minutes was then had; and on the convention
being called to order, a vote was taken with the following result:

Richmond. — Alabama, 164; Arkansas, 4; Florida, 3; Louis-
iana, 87; Mississippi, 44; North Carolina, 21; Texas, 304; Ten-
nessee, 89; Virginia, 64; total, 780.

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Charleston. — Alabama, 25; Florida, 33,- Georgia, 15; Louis-
iana, 52; Maryland, 2; Mississippi, 20; South Carolina, 86; Texas,
211 ; total, 144.

Atlanta. — Alabama, 2; Arkansas, 37; Georgia, 61; Indlian
Territory, 15; Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 56; Oklahoma, 2; Texas,
28; total, 208.

Kansas City. — Texas, 4; Missouri, 56. The Missouri vote
was changed to Atlanta before the count was ended.

When the result had been ascertained, Major Barker, on be-
half of Charleston, moved that the choice of Richmond be made
unanimous.

Gen. Evans said, that yielding to the wishes of a majority of
old Confederates, he for Atlanta, seconded the motion.

The motion was put, and carried with enthusiasm; and the
chair declared that Richmond had been chosen as the place of meet-
ing of the United Confederate Veterans in May, 1896.

Gen. Peyton Wise thanked the convention, and said that Rich-
mond would proudly receive and entertain the surviving heroes of
the grandest army that ever trod the globe.

The meeting then adjourned to 10 o'clock on Friday morn-
ins.

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THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1895.

It was 10:45 o'clock when General Gordon took the gavel
and called the Convention to order for the third and last day's
session of its fifth Reunion.

General Lee read a telegram of greeting and congratulation
trom Comrades in San Francisco.

General Lee, after paying Gen. Geo. Moorman, Adjutant
General, high compliments for his faithfulness and devotion, declar-
ing that no knightlier soldier ever served the Confederate cause,
introduced the following resolution:

"Resolved, That the thanks of this body are due, and are
hereby tendered, to General George Moorman, Adjutant General,
for his persistent, untiring, devoted efforts on behalf of our organ-
ization."

The resolution was adopted enthusiastically and unanimously
by a rising vote.

General Gordon said : "I will not insult this magnificent audi-
ence of brave men by putting the negative."

General Lee said there was on the stand an ex-Federal soldier
who was doing a great work towards reuniting the citizens of the
North and South. He took pleasure in introducing to the associa-
tion Colonel Lee, Secretary of the Shiloh Battlefield Association.

When Colonel Lee came to the front of the platform, he was
given a splendid ovation. Every delegate rose to his feet, and the
cheering lasted several minutes.

Colonel Lee said that he recognized that old yell, he had heard
it before, which remark brought forth renewed cheering.

Addressing the veterans as "Comrades," Colonel Lee said that
it afforded him great pleasure to meet with them in this magnificent
State. He said he had learned this: "We are all brothers upon
a common ground of principle." He passed a high encomium upon
the true Southern and Northern soldier, saying with them that the
war was over. He gave the veterans a cordial invitation to attend
the approaching Reunion on the Shiloh Battlefield, to take place
on the anniversary of the struggle which occurred there more than
thirty years ago. The Assistant Secretary of the Association was

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an ex-Confederate soldier, and he wanted the names of all the Con-
federates who participated in the Battle of Shiloh. They were
making a list of the names of all the soldiers engaged on both sides.
He had noticed at Gettysburg that only one side was represented — ■
there were no Confederate positions marked. He had said to a
Congressman after his visit to that field that future generations
would want to know where was the other side, and would ask
if the Federal troops were fighting the wind. It had now been
changed, and now the positions held by the Confederate troops
upon that battlefield would be marked. He wanted to see an organ-
ization in which all would meet on common ground, and that was
the object of this Shiloh Association. Let each side place upon
Shiloh's field what it pleased— he was sure nothing would be put
there that would offend any American citizen. The motto of this
Association was, "Peace on earth, good will to men." Meetings
were to be held annually, and every soldier was invited for eveiy
year. Don't wait for any other invitation. (A voice — "Are there
any fat hogs there?") Colonel Lee said he hoped to see upon
that field a monmument to Albert Sidney Johnston, one of the
greatest men who ever fought and fell. He urged upon all the
veterans that could do so to be at Chicago at the unveiling of the
Confederate monument, and assured them of a warm welcome in
that city.

He said he had been at Corinth lately, and he wanted to see d.
monument there to Colonel Rogers, who died there. He was a
s,plendid soldier, riding his horse over our breastworks, and dying
there. He wanted every Confederate to come to the Shiloh meeting
as a comrade, entitled to all the privileges, just the same as North-
ern men. He wanted to see the old soldiers reunite and go for-
ward together, building up their common country, the grandest the
sun ever snone upon.

When the applause which followed Colonel Lee's speech had
died away, General Stephen D. Lee told how the Union soldiers
had taken the body of Colonel Rogers, buried it, put a railing about
the grave, and inscribed the headstone: "Tread lightly o'er the
ashes of the brave."

A vote of thanks was given Colonel Lee as a mark of appic-
ciation for the brotherly feeling so kindly expressed.

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General Gordon handed to the reading clerk and had lead

the following letter:

"Houston, Texas, May 22, 1893.
"Gen. John B. Gordon, United Confederate Veterans:

"My Dear General — I desire to express to you, and through
you to the Confederate Veterans, and to the good people of Hous-
ton, Texas, my very high appreciation of the cordial reception given
me in Houston to-day.

"The occasion has been one of great interest to me. The very
cordial relations which I have found to exist between the Confed-
erate veterans and the Union veterans resident in Texas and other
Southern States, and the universal expression of ardent loyalty and
patriotism on the part of everyone of the very great number of
Confederate veterans whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, have
suggested to me the following thought, which I desire to commu-
nicate to them :

"When the commanders of the great armies which had so
fiercely contended with each other four long years agreed upon the
terms of a military convention in 1865, the world was astonished at
the terms of that convention. Nothing like it had ever before
occurred in the history of the world.

"Let us recall for a moment the substance of that convention.
What obligations did it impose on either side? On the one side,
that the brave Confederate soldiers should cease for the future trom
all acts of war; should go quietly to their homes; live there in peace,
and obey the laws. On the other hand, that the Union commander
should protect them from all molestation on account of past acts
so long as they kept their faith inviolate.

"The very essence in beauty, simplicity and sublimity of the
command imposed upon the human race by the great Saviour ot
mankind was embodied in the terms of that convention. There was
to be no punishment on account of past deeds, but only a solemn
pledge of fidelity to the glorious flag of the Union, and acknowl-
edgment of supreme allegiance to the nationality which that flag
represents.

"The meaning of this inspired military convention was hardly
understood by any at the time, but its meaning has gradually been
disclosed to the knowledge of mankind. The great purpose of that
convention was not simply to terminate the then existing contest,
but to render impossible for all time to come any other sectional
contest in this country. It was to implant in the heart ot every
true and patriotic American the feeling that the people of these
great States are kindred people, that they cannot find it in their
hearts to inflict extreme punishment upon their brethren, and to
make them in fact one united people for all time to come.

"The great Union Commander and his comrades did not: for

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 55

a moment doubt the good faith of their recent antagonists. But
many millions of good people throughout the country felt doubt
and anxiety respecting the ultimate results of such an unprecedented
termination of a great, fierce and bloody contest. The doubts, un-
certainties and anxieties of that period have gradually passed away,
until now nowhere throughout the States is the good faith of these
brave old Confederate soldiers for a moment doubted. Indeed, by
common consent everywhere, they and their successors, the young
soldiers of the South, are regarded as among the most faithful and
devoted defenders of the flag of the Union, the Constitution of the
United States, and the honor, integrity and interests of the great
nation which that flag represents.

"I am sure I express the sentiments of a vast majority of the
people of the North, not only of the old Union soldiers, who have
shown you their confidence and sympathy, but of the new and rising
generation, in whose hands the destinies of the country for the future
must be placed. I have long known that the same sentiment per-
vaded the people of the South ; and I have stopped here to-day
upon the invitation of the Confederate veterans of the South, to
assure them that their loyalty to the Constitution and to the laws
of the nation is appreciated by the great mass of the people of the
North, who recognize to the fullest extent the fidelity which the
Southern soldiers have for so many years displayed to the pledges
they gave at and after the conclusion of the great contest. So that
now and henceforth there can be no possible reason why the people
of the North and of the South, old soldiers and young soldiers,
should not unite under the flag of the Union to promote the best
interests of their country, and defend her honor throughout the
world.

"Very respectfully and truly yours,

"J. M. SCHOFIELD."

The reading of the letter was greeted with tremendous ap-
plause.

Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D., moved that the Commander-in-
Chief be requested to make suitable acknowledgment of the letter;
"for," said he, "if General Schofield expresses, as I have no doubt
he does, the feeling of the soldiers of the North, then we are indeed
brothers"; and the motion was unanimously adopted.

Col. S. A. Cunningham, of Nashville, called attention to the
fact that though General Schofield had never attended a meeting
of the G. A. R., he had come to this Reunion, and would have
taken some part but for the rain.

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General Pickard, of Tennessee, offered the following, which
was unanimously adopted :

"Whereas, By the kind and indulgent providence of the Great
Ruler of the Universe and the Dictator of all that is true and
noble, the largest assembly of Confederates that has ever met since
the war has been upon this occasion ; and

"Whereas, We have been so hospitably received and enter-
tained by not only the people of Houston, but of the whole State
of Texas, we desire to give some expression of our appreciation of
the same; therefore, be it

"Resolved, By the Convention, that we, both as a body and
individually, tender our most profound thanks to the people of the
State, and especially of Houston, for the noble-hearted manner in
which they have received, treated and 'honored us, and pray God
that their continued prosperity may far exceed their fondest hopes
and anticipations."

General Gordon said he had a letter from "a Confederate sol-
dier, a private soldier, a blind private soldier, but one who saw
with his heart, as no man ever saw better with his eyes, the glory
of the past; and who intended to do what he could to see that
memories of them should be preserved." The letter was as follows:

"New York, May 14.
"Gen. John B. Gordon, Commanding United Confederate Veterans,
Houston, Texas.
"General — I have the honor to inform you, and through you
the veterans assembled in Reunion at Houston, that Col. Robert
C. Wood, of Louisiana, is fully empowered to act for me in all
matters connected with the memorial plan which I have submitted
to the veterans for their consideration.
"With great respect,

"Your obedient servant,

"Charles Broadway Rouss."

General Gordon called Colonel Wood to the stand, saying that
he was no niggard when it came to dealing with the Confederate
soldier; that he bore in his veins the blood of old Zack and Dick
Taylor. Colonel Wood had the following communication read by

the reading clerk:

"New York, May 11.
"Col. Robert C. Wood,
"City :
"My Dear Friend and Comrade — As I have been in corre-
spondence with many Confederate veterans in relation to the estab-
lishment of a National Memorial Association; and as the matter

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 57

has been called officially to the attention of the United Confederate
Veterans by the two Department Commanders, I assume that it
will be the subject of discussion at the Houston Reunion. Should
this be the case, I beg that you will furnish the veterans with fuller
particulars than I have been able to convey to them by circular or
letter. The following statement will explain the reasons that
induced me to interest myself in this memorial movement, and why
I feel warranted in calling upon my comrades for co-operation.

"Shortly after the termination of the war, I became thoroughly
impressed with the importance of the South's taking up the work
of vindication. I saw that Northern writers, imbued with partisan
feelings, stimulated by sectional animosity and posing as historians,
were falsifying history ; that they were misrepresenting the causes
that forced the South to take up arms, and the manner in which she
had sustained the conflict ; that they were reviling our domestic
institutions, impugning the courage and devotion of our soldiers,
making our trusted leaders the objects of malignant abuse; and were
utilizing the text-books of the schools to mislead and debauch the
minds of the young. I saw that these misrepresentations and slan-
ders, propagated over a wide field, and without correction, were
being accepted as facts.

"In view of this, I saw with great satisfaction, and watched
with eager interest, the growth of a movement in the South to
insure the truth of history by means of a truthful record of the
great conflict, and an explanation of the causes that led to it. I
thought that all who wore the gray would work harmoniously to
this end, and in addition, do all in their power to preserve the
memory of their fallen comrades, and to leave to posterity enduring
proofs of their loyalty, courage and devotion to duty.

"When the first Southern Historical Society was organized,
having in view the objects above recited, I hoped and believed a
step had been taken that would secure all the results desired; that
from this nucleus would grow an institution embracing all the
matter and material necessary to the future historian in making up
a truthful record ; that would contain as valuable object lessons
the relics and mementoes of the great struggle for our rights ; that
would preserve the features of our great leaders ; that would be a
sacred shrine for our veterans, and a Mecca for their descendants
for long ages to come.

"When I saw that our noble women and good and true men
were working zealously and untiringly to secure these results, and
that memorial organizations had been established in Richmond, New
Orleans and elsewhere, I was hopeful for success. It was only after
the lapse of many years that I commenced to entertain doubts or
the perpetuity of the work that had been accomplished. I saw
wTith concern that a multiplicity of efforts to accomplish the objects

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of general desire was endangering success. That, notwithstanding
the evident design to make these memorial institutions national in
character, they were regarded by the veterans as limited and local,
and that they were never so generally and liberally supported as
to obviate the necessity of recurring appeals for assistance. I saw
that the old soldiers were reluctant to have relics and records
removed from their respective States without an assurance of being
made part of a national collection, to which every Confederate
State would contribute. I saw that a great amount of valuable
memorial matter, scattered broadcast over the country, was in danger
of being lost or destroyed ; and that many relics that should form
an important part of the illustrated history of the war were being
disposed of to Northern purchasers for purposes of exhibition and
profit.

"Although much valuable time had been wasted, and many of
the veterans had 'crossed to the other shore,' I believed that it was
not too late to rectify the mistakes caused by patriotic zeal, and that
whatever had been lost by not having concentrated our efforts and
means might be regained. I was satisfied that the desire to per-
petuate the memories of our great struggle for constitutional rights
was so strong and universal in the hearts of our veterans; that their
united and harmonious action could be relied upon in any effort to
that end. Though convinced of this, I did not feel warranted in
appealing to any of our prominent Confederate leaders to inaugurate
the work, inasmuch as it would involve labor and necessitate ex-
pense, I preferred to take the burden upon myself.

"In November of last year, I addressed the following circular
to the Commanders of the veteran Camps, and to other Confeder-
ates whose addresses I was able to obtain." (Here followed several
circulars, which are familiar to veterans.)

"The responses to this circular were more numerous than those
to the first, and equally, if not more, satisfactory. From veteran ,
Camps, from commanding generals to privates, from those who have 1.
succeeded in life's struggles, and from those upon whom fortune has
frowned, assurances of co-operation and substantial support have
been received. It is for the veterans to mold this universal senti-
ment into substantial expression. It would be comparatively easy
of accomplishment to secure the sum that has been estimated as
necessary to found the proposed association. A few rich persons
could furnish the amount without inconvenience, but in so doing
they would deprive the Confederate veterans of the opportunity of
furnishing the world and to posterity proof of their unanimous
and loyal devotion to the memory of the Lost Cause. An institu-
tion built out of their poverty would be infinitely preferable, and
would inculcate a loftier lesson than one created by industrial
wealth.

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"The question of location has impressed me as one of great
delicacy and importance, and in formulating plans I have given it
careful attention. It has been made more clear that there will be
competition as to the site of the institution. For this reason I
deem it wisest and best to leave the decision to the Board of Ad-
ministrators. I can only hope, in view of the great purpose contem-
plated, that local preferences and prejudices may be subordinated
to the common good. I think all will agree that our shrine should be
erected in a place easily accessible; that our Mecca should be erected
where it can be reached by the greatest numbers. In this, as in all
other questions connected with the establishment of the Memorial
Association, I shall acquiesce cheerfully in whatever decision the
veterans may reach. In this connection, I wish you to assure our
comrades that from the inception of this movement there has been
no desire or purpose to interfere with or antagonize in any manner
■whatever the memorial organizations that now exist.

"Although the plan submitted for the establishment of a memo-
rial association has in view the crystalization of a sentiment dear to
all Confederates, yet we should not lose sight of the fact that zealous
activity, intelligent effort and business methods are essential to success.
If it be determined to establish the association, of which there appears
no doubt, the first and most important work will be a canvass of the
veterans. I am convinced if the Commanders of veteran camps and
others interested themselves it would largely exceed the amount es-
timated for, and that the effort would be to stimulate to increased
liberality those who now intend to contribute bountifully. I take
it for granted that the poorer veterans can pay their subscriptions by
•installment during the progress of the work.

"While I am confident of the establishment of the memorial as-
sociation, and desirous of seeing its completion as soon as possible, I
would advise against commencing work without sufficient funds in
'hand to insure its continual prosecution. The effect of interruption
would be injurious, as it would evoke adverse criticism. It will be
recalled, that insufficiency of funds to complete the Grant tomb so
long after its commencement was made the theme of unpleasant com-
ment throughout the world.

"Other matters relevant to the memorial association will likely
be presented for discussion at the Houston Reunion. Our frequent
conversations have placed you in possession of my views, to which you
can give expression.

"I beg that you will commend me fraternally and kindly to the
veterans assembled, and express my regrets that business burdens and
failing sight will prevent me from being with them. Assure them

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that I shall enter heartily into their plans, and shall esteem it an
honor, as it will be a positive pleasure, to be permitted to share in
their good worlft.

"Very sincerely,
"Charles Broadway Rouss."

The communication was loudly cheered, and when Col. Wood
supplemented it by saying that Comrade Rouss stood ready, if some
such plan should be adopted to start the fund for it with $100,000,
the cheering was redoubled.

'Gen. Lee paid a high tribute to Comrade Rouss, and commended
his proposition. He thought the plan should be adopted, and the
work begun.

Gen. Gordon moved that the communication be referred to a
committee of one from each State in the Association, who should'
consider the plan, and set the matter on foot.

Col. Corey, of Virginia, didn't want to oppose the report, 'but
called attention to the fact that the ladies of Richmond had been at
work with the same general view for five years, and in their poverty,
aided by the city of Richmond, had raised $6o,ooo. He read a state-
ment to show what had been done by them.

A Louisiana member suggested that each camp should give a
concert on the Fourth of July for the benefit of the fund.

The motion was adopted.

A message was read from Lucy B. Hill, of Nashville, daughter
of Gen. D. H. Hill, regretting that she could not be present at the
Reunion.

Gen. Gordon read a telegram from Col. John C. Underwood, in-
viting the veterans to attend the dedication of the Confederate mon-
ument at Chicago.

Gen. Gordon introduced Dr. R. C. Burleson, who read the
following statement :

"A request is made by Miss Aula Moore, whose life is conse-
crated, to caring for friendless children, to appoint a committee in
each Southern State, to solicit for donations to the homes of poor,
needy children and grandchildren of Confederate soldiers, said com-
mittee to be empowered to appoint sub-committees to get up enter-
tainments for the benefit of the homes, and also for a treasurer to be
appointed in each State to receive all donations. One home is located
in Springville, North Alabama, on twenty acres of land in the town ;
$100,000 worth of marble has been donated to it. This home is for
the poor descendants of Confederate soldiers east of the Mississippi

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River. The other one is to be located west of the Mississippi River in
Texas. Miss Moore has traveled over the Southwest at her own
expense for a year, hunting for a good location for the Southwestern
home, and has decided upon Weatherford or Texarkana, and submits
the question to the Southwest. She requests a committee to be ap-
pointed to procure passes or half-fare permits for her from the railway
companies."

The Committee on Resolutions made a report, recommending
that the following resolutions submitted for their consideration, be
adopted:

"At a regular meeting of the Confederate soldiers of the Ten-
nessee Division, held on September 12, 1894, tne following preamble
and resolutions were unanimously adopted :

" 'Whereas, The United Confederate Veterans at their Con-
vention, held in Birmingham on April 25, 1894, recommended the
observance of the birthday of our great and patriotic president Jeffer-
son Davis as a holiday; and

" 'Whereas, This Association fully endorses the recommendation
with an earnestness amounting to enthusiasm ; therefore be it

" 'Resolved, That to insure a more fitting and universal observ-
ance of the day throughout the Southern States, that that day, the
3rd of June, shall be set apart for the observance of memorial ser-
vices in honor of our Confederate dead, so that there may be one and
the same day set apart for that sacred duty throughout the entire
South, that the day may be observed wherever there may be an asso-
ciation of Confederate soldiers, of their own sons or daughters, or
their sympathizers, these historical and memorial events may be prop-
erly commemorated; be it further

" 'Resolved, That the Third Day of June shall be so observed
by all Confederate organizations in the South as Confederate Memo-
rial Day.'

"John P. Hickman,
"Adjutant General Tennessee Division."

"Resolved, By the United Confederate Veterans in convention
assembled, That the committee on History of this convention be in-
structed to memoralize the several legislatures of the Southern States,
the boards of education in the same and all public and private teach-
ers in the South, as well as the parents of our rising generation, to
discard the partisan histories mentioned in the said committee's reporr
to this convention naming such histories; and to commend for general
and private use in our schools such histories that said committee has
recommended to this association as fair and impartial, naming such
histories in said memorial." (Introduced by W. H. Brooker, of San
Antonio).

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"Resolved, That a Committee to consist of one delegate from
each State represented at this Reunion be appointed by the chair to
consider and report to this meeting a place providing permanent ar-
chives for perpetuating the facts of Confederate history." (This
resolution was from the Historical Committee).

The report of the Committee was adopted.

The time for electing officers for the ensuing year having arrived,
it was decided, on motion, to limit nominating speeches to five
minutes.

Maj. J. N. Stubbs, of Virginia, took the stand and said:
"Pleasure has understanding, but no tongue. I stand here to-day
for the first time in thirty years in sight of the place where I received
my parole. I have had much pleasure in meeting my old Texas
friends and comrades, but the greatest pleasure of the meeting is
given me now in discharging the duty with which I have been charg-
ed by my State, that of nominating the presiding officer of this as-
sociation for the ensuing year." He said they could find men in every
State illustrious in war and peace, who would preside with honor;
but, scouring the country from ocean to ocean, Virginia's choice of all
the men of all the States was that incomparable citizen and soldier —
John B. Gordon.

Gen. Stephen D. Lee moved to elect, by acclamation, "the
greatest living Confederate soldier."

Several voices called out for a rising vote; and nobody waited for
Gen. Cabell, who was in the chair, to put the question, but all rose to
their feet, and stood there for fully five minutes, cheering and clap-
ping their hands, and waving hats and umbrellas.

Gen. Gordon was greatly moved by the demonstration, and
when quiet had succeeded the storm of applause, spoke with great
feeling.

"Only the Searcher of all hearts knows," said he, "the debt of
gratitude your action awakens in this heart. I would rather have my
place in the hearts open to me to-day than any honor this earth has
to bestow. The proudest epitaph that can be written on my tomb
when your hands shall lay me to rest is 'Here lies a Confederate
soldier.' God bless you, my fellow-soldiers, and make me worthy of
this honor."

When nominations for Lieutenant General of the Department of
the Army of Northern Virginia was reached, Gen. Allen Barksdale
took the stand. He said he rose at the request of his comrades of

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 63

Louisiana, who yesterday were divided but were now one, to perform
a duty of love. His tongue was too weak to utter what he wanted
to say when he thought of the glorious achievements of the State
whose most glorious son he was about to name ; when he remembered
the crimson path of glory tread by her legions during the four years
of civil strife; when he thought of the Palmetto Regiment that
planted the Stars and Stripes upon the walls of Chapultepec. Wher-
ever leaders of the Confederacy went, there you found Wade Hamp-
ton leading his troops. There was no worthier man in the South to
command the newly-created Department of the Army of Northern
Virginia.

Gen. Pickard seconded the nomination for Tennessee ; and moved
that Gen. Hampton be elected by acclamation by a rising vote. This
was done amid much applause.

The election of a Lieutenant General for the Trans-Mississippi
Department brought about a lively contest.

Col. T. J. Gibson, of Mexia, said he rose to nominate a man
whose work showed what was in him. When Texas had come into
the convention with over six hundred votes, it showed executive
ability somewhere of the highest order. The United Confederate
Veterans were now confronted with a second rebeUion of deep wrong
— a rebellion against historic facts — that proposes to invade your
school-houses and poison your children's love for you. This rebel-
lion must be put down. When the Southern chivalry went forth to
battle, none was braver, none fought with heavier arm than W. L.
Cabell ; but when the war was over, he had come home, and had
labored to restore peace and good-fellowship between the sections, and
to him was largely due the scene in this convention when a Northern
soldier had been given an ovation by Southern veterans.

Gen. John M. Claiborne said he wanted to nominate a man
who for forty-four years had been a citrzen of Texas, identified with
every material interest in the State; who had represented both Mis-
sissippi and Texas in the Congress of the United States; who had
raised a regiment, and fell upon the heels of the Yankees from the
Mississippi River clean through. It was that knightly soldier and
Christian gentleman, Thomas N. Waul.

Col. H. A. Newman, of Missouri, said he had been instructed
by his delegation and ordered by Gen. Shelby to second the nomina-

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tion of "Old Tige." It was the first time Missouri had been in a
United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, but he called upon comrades
to remember that twice "old Jo Shelby" had carried the Magnolias
and the Jasmines of the South to the Missouri River in spite of 25,-
000 yankees ; and the second time Gen. Cabell had been with him, had
spilt his blood upon Missouri soil, and the veterans of that State
would love him for all time to come. He wished it remembered that
the archives of the government at Washington showed that when the
surrender came, it found muskets in the hands of 32,000 Missourians.
This he thought gave them a right to a voice in the Association, and
that voice was all for Cabell. He mentioned, by the way, that Texas
had only lost one flag during the war, and that the Missouri delega-
tion had brought down and presented to Gen. Ross. It was the
dear old "bonnie blue flag," too, so enshrined in the hearts of the
people of the South.

Maj. Gen. John G. Fletcher, of Arkansas, said he had Deen
commissioned to second the nomination of the man who stood by
Mcintosh and Ben McCulloch on the immortal field of Elk Horn,
and had there shed his blood. That man was W. L. Cabell.

Judge R. H. Phelps said one of the first things he had learned
when a beardless boy following Gordon and the other heroes of the
South was to obey orders. Acting, therefore, in obedience to the
orders of his own impulse, he seconded the nomination of that gal-
lant soldier and splendid gentleman, Gen. T. N. Waul.

Col. John O. Casler, of Oklahoma, seconded Cabell's nomina-
tion.

Col. R. B. Coleman, of Indian Territory, said, representing tiie
five civilized tribes of Indians, he was instructed to second the nom-
ination of Cabell. "The Indians," he said, "knew but two names em-
blazoned upon the standard of war — 'Standwatie and 'Old Tige.' "
He was from the Choctaw Nation, from which every man over four-
teen years had gone into the war save four.

Judge R. E. Burke, of Dallas, also seconded the nomination of
Cabell.

When the roll of States was called, it took the Texas Division
an hour to take the vote, and, before the result was announced, it
having become apparent that Cabell had a majority, General Clai-
borne moved that his election be made unanimous; which motion was
adopted with a yell.

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 65

General Cabell said he intended to redouble his efforts for the
Association. The Trans-Mississippi Department now had 350
camps; next year it should have 500. He thanked the veterans for
their confidence as expresesd in the vote.

General Waul thanked 'his supporters, and said he hoped when he
had attended as many Reunions as General Cabell to be as popular.
He called attention to the fact that during the war no hostile foot
had trod the soil of Texas for twenty-four hours at a time.

Col. W. L. Calhoun, of Georgia, nominated Gen. Stephen D.
Lee for Commander of the Army of Tennessee Department.

He was elected unanimously by a rising vote.

General Lee said it had been one of the proudest privileges of
his life to look from that platform into the faces of the heroes assem-
bled there ; and he felt that no greater honor could be conferred
upon him this renewed evidence of their confidence and love.

General Stewart, of Maryland, invited the veterans to hold their
Reunion in Baltimore in 1897, at which time that city would have
a great exposition.

Another Marylander said Baltimore had already raised $1,000,-
000 to be spent in getting up a big show, and they expected to make
it $4,000,000.

General Gordon held up two great baskets of flowers, which
he said had been sent by Mrs. S. O. Ross. "White and pure as they
were, they were not whiter or purer than the smiles of the Confed-
erate women." One basket had been sent the convention and one to
him, but he laid both at the feet of the veterans.

There was a great scramble for the flowers, and soon they had
been divided out, and were adorning the lapels of the coats of the
delegates.

General Ross introduced Maj. Gen. H. H. Buone, the newly-
elected Commander of the Texas Division.

General Boone said praise from Rupert was praise indeed, and
no higher praise could come than that bestowed by the gift of the
confidence of the comrades who had so honored him. He paid a
high tribute to the private soldier, without whom there could have
been no Lee, no Jackson, no Stuart, no Forrest.

At the conclusion of General Boone's speech, on motion of Gen.
H. B. Stoddard, the Association adjourned sine die.

APPENDIX.

REPORT

OF THE

Quartermaster General.

Headquarters, Quartermaster Generai/s Office,

Chattanooga, Tenn., May 20, 1895.
Ma). Gen. George Moorman, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff :
Dear General — The question of rates for our comrades and
friends to and from our Reunions and meetings is a matter of vital
importance to our members and friends, and is a subject for the
attention of this department.

The various transportation lines have named us the most favor-
able rates for this meeting we have heretofore enjoyed, viz., one
cent per mile each way for the number of miles traveled. While
this is a low rate, yet it is a very heavy tax upon many of our eom-
lades living at remote points from the place of meeting; therefore,
I would recommend for all future meetings and gatherings, the ques-
tion of transportation be left to the Division Quartermasters of the
various States, so they may take the matter up with initial lines of
the respective States, and endeavor to secure rates based upon the
distance to be traveled, to the end that a less rate per mile be secured
for distant points than from neary-by points. An adjustment of rates
upon this basis should be made by the transportation lines, that our
comrades living at the most remote points could avail themselves of
attending every annual meeting for the few remaining years of their
lives without too great a cost. Such a policy upon the part of the
transportation lines would endear them to the hearts of our people.

The next most important meeting to the old veterans of the
late war will be the coming dedication of Chattanooga and Chicka-
mauga National Military Park, which will take place this fall, Sep-
tember 19 to 21. This great National Park was founded by a meet-

70 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

ing of Confederates and Federals at Chattanooga, and the organi-
zation of the Chickamauga Memorial Association was completed at
that meeting on the battlefield, September 20, 1889.

The Association was officered by an equal 'number of Confederate
and Federal soldiers. The Association was chartered by the Georgia
Legislature for a term of twenty years. The Association appealed
to Congress, and that body has so far appropriated towards the im-
provement of the Park about $750,000. The Commissioner in
charge is a distinguished Confederate, Gen. A. P. Stewart; the
officers and men about the Park are divided between the Confederate
and Federal soldiers ; each State has the same rights in memorial-
izing its troops of either army.

The whole great enterprise is to be a memorial to American
valor and devotion. Congress, at the last session, provided for the
coming dedication, and extended an invitation to all the State gov-
ernments to be officially represented upon that important occasion
by the governors and staffs, supreme courts, heads of departments,
the State legislatures and national guard. It is hoped that the oc-
casion will be attended by a large number of our comrades; and,
therefore, it is important that the various Division Quartermasters
begin at once to secure the lowest possible rates for our comrades and
friends who may want to be present on that occasioa

Since my annual report made to you at the Birmingham meet-
ing, April 25, 1894, there has been a very large falling off in the
demand on this department for the society button or pin, attributed
to its indiscriminate sale. The present design is not and cannot be
protected for our exclusive use. This indiscriminate sale 'has placed
the badge within the reach of those who are not authorized to wear
them, which brought it into disfavor with those who are. As the cus-
todian of our society badge I wish to state I have distributed through
■this department to camps belonging to this Association, from June
1, 1 89 1, to April 1, 1892, 747; from April 1, 1892, to January 1,
1894, 979J *rom January 1, 1894, to May 25, 1895, 151. It will
be seen that there has been a large falling off since the Birmingham
meeting, notwithstanding the large increase in membership. I will
state, "however, by reason of the fact that there was a demand for a
change of design to one that could be protected for our exclusive use,

OF THE UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 71

I have not encouraged the camps to buy the present design. As
stated in my Birmingham report, I will say the question of protect-
ing our society button or pin for the exclusive use of members be-
longing to the U. C. V. camps has long been' a subject of much
concern to this department. Immediately upon the adoption of the
present design at our second reunion, held in Jackson, Miss., I began
to try to have the badge covered by copyright, but found it could not
be obtained. At the meeting in New Orleans, in April, 1892, Com-
rade W. T. Cluverius submitted a resolution that the badge be
changed by reducing it in size one-sixteenth of an inch, and that the
letters "U. C. V." be inscribed upon the face, and that the same be
covered by copyright. The resolution went to the committee on
resolutions, upon which they reported, recommending that the Quar-
termaster General be directed to have the letters "U. C. V" added
to the badge, provided the same could thereby be protected by copy-
right; otherwise no change should be made. The report of the com-
mittee was adopted by the convention.

On my return home from the New Orleans meeting, I again ap-
plied to the congressional librarian to have the badge with the
proposed change covered by copyright, but was informed that it could
not be protected through that department. I then took the matter
up with the commissioner of patents, and alsp wrote to the congress-
man from my district to aid me in the matter. After a most thorough
investigation and long correspondence, I learned it could not be cov-
ered by a patent. Some months later I was informed by the party
•.vhom I got to manufacture the badges that he thought he could
have it patented, and that if so he would assign it to me for the
exclusive right of the United Confederate Veterans, to which 1'
agreed, conditioned that none were to be furnished anyone except
upon an order from the Quartermaster General of the United Con-
federate Veterans, and that he should make them in competition, both
in price and competition with any other manufacturers. After some
months he informed me that he could not get it patented. Having
exhausted all possible hope of getting the present design protected, I
got up something I thought would be acceptable and could be pat-
ented for our exclusive use, and herewith submit two original designs,
one for the exclusive use of the United Confederate Veterans and
one for the exclusive use of the United Confederate Veterans' Aux-

72 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING AND REUNION

iliary Association, both of which are available for protection by
patent.

The latter badge I designed in anticipation of the convention in
perfecting some practicable and acceptable basis for admitting the
descendants of worthy Confederate veterans to our Association, that
they may aid us in carrying on the great work we have before us
of transmitting to rising generations the truth of history, the historic
deeds and valor of their ancestors, to relieving the distress of our
worthy comrades, and rescuing from oblivion the names of our heroic
dead. I can furnish either of the new designs, covered by patents,
for the exclusive use of our members and auxiliaries, made up of
first-class material and workmanship, at 50 cents for the gold-plated
and a dollar for the gold. The margin in the badges at these prices
will pay for handling, and meet the expenses of the department.

In conclusion, I wish to thank the passenger agents of the various
transportation lines in the South for courtesies extended this depart-
ment, to our comrades and friends.

With great respect, I am, yours very truly and fraternally,

J. F. Shipp,
Quartermaster General, United Confederate Veterans.

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MINUTES

OF THE '

) SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING \

) And REUNION

if OF THE

HELD IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, VA.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 30th I July 1st 1 2d, 1896,

\ J. B. GORDON, General Commanding. f

^ GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. f

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J NEW ORLEANS, LA. L

Hopkins' Prinling Office, 20 Commercial Place,

1897.

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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE —

Sixth Annual Meeting

AND REUNION

OF THE

United Confederate Yeterans;

HELD AT

Richmond, Va,

JUNE 30th and JULY 1st and 2nd, 1896,

J. B. GORDON, General Commanding.

GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Hopkins' Printing Office, 22 Commercial Place.

1897.

USTJDEIX.

Adjutant General Geo. Moorman 8, 18, 27, 29, 48, 49, 75,

76, Keport 78 to 83, 91. Keport of Jefferson Davis
Monument Funds 94, 95, 116, 118, 131. Eeport
receipts and expenditures 132 to 150. Report
General E. Kirby Smith Funds 151 to 153, 154, 166.

Allin, Bush W 26

Asbury, A. E 109

Aylett, Wm. R. Gen'l 127

Anne Lee Memorial Association 127, 128

Buckner, S. B. Gen'l address 18, 19

Belden, L. S 26

Bush, W. N. Gen'l 26, 52

Behan, W. J. Gen'l 26

Barksdale, Allen Hon 27. 103, 109

Bentley, H. L. Gen'l ' 28

Battle Abbey .... 42, 96 to 110. Report 96. Charter 97 to 100

Bulger, Gen'l 76

Brown, Tulley Col 77

Briggs, J. B. Gen'l 109

Baltimore 110, 111, 114

Brander, Thos. A. Gen'l 153

Brown, D A. Quartermaster R. E. Lee Camp No. 181 154

Curry, J. L., M. Dr 6, 26, 36. 49. Address 55 to 76

Capers, Ellison Bishop (Majr-Gen'l) 6, 28, 45

Cabell, W. L. Lieut.-Gen'l 18, 54, 83, 91, 92, 96, 104

Speech *. 117

Committee on Credentials 26. Report 52

do Historical and on Southern School History, Re-

, port 26 to 49

do Fredericksburg Battle Field Park 49

do on Resolutions 50, 1 18

do Report Jefferson Davis Monument 91, 92

Campbell, W. P. Major 26, 29, 45, 109

Casler, Jno. O. Col 26, 29, 45, 50, 109, 112

Confederate Veteran 35

Cunningham, S. A 35,110

Crismond, J. P. H 49

Coleman, R. B. Gen'l 50

Chicago Monument 53

Christian, Geo. L. Judge 76

Calhoun, W. L. Col 77

Chalaron, J. A. Gen'l 78, 83, 84, 109, 114," 117

Confederate Memorial Institute 96 to 110

Chipley, W. D. Gen'l 109

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Cary, Jno. B, Col * . . . 109, 110

Confederate Survivors' Association, Camp No. 435, Augusta,

Ga 126,126

Colquhoun, Alice E. Secretary 128

Childress, A. C. Miss 131

De Rosset, W. L. Gen'i . 6, 50

Davis, Jefferson Monument 91 to 95

Davis, Mrs. Jefferson 25, 84, 95, 96

Daves, Graham Majr 29

Duke, Basil Gen'l 29

Douglas, H. Kyd Gen'l 53, 55. Speech 111, 112, 114

Dickison, J. J. Majr- Gen'l. 78

Daughters of Veterans 81

Dunbar, W. M 96

Dickinson, A. G. Col 97, 102, 103, 104, 106

Speech 106 to 107

Dutcher, S 125, 126

Eagle, Jas . P. Ex- Governor 6

Evans, Clement A. Gen'l 6, 28, 39, 45, 78, 109

Ellyson, J. Taylor Hon 25, 50, 84, 92, 93, 94, 95

Ellett, Thos. Col 26, 153

Enslow, J. A. Jr 50, 52

Eshleman, B. F. Col 77

Ellett, Jno. S. Col 92, 94, 95

Eve, E. E. Capt 126

Fleming, F. P. Ex-Governor 6

Ferguson, Fred. S. Gen'l 6, 29, 45, 78

French, S. G. Majr-Gen'l 29, 45

Fredericksburg Battle Field Park 49

Flowerree, C. C. Col 117

Frazier, Jno. W. Comdr 127

Foard, A. J. Surgeon 121 to 125

Gordon, Mrs. Geu'l J. B 6

Gordon, J. B. Gen'l ... 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20, 21. Address 23 to 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 51, 55, 56, 70, 76, 83, 95, 96, 101, 104,
108, 112. Speech 115. Speech 120, 127, 131, 151,
154.

Gait, Jno. L 26

Garrett, W. R. Prof 28, 45, 102, 103

Gantt, J. B. Hon 50

Gill, John Gen'l 109

Hampton, Wade Gen'l 18, 21. Address 22, 23

Historical Committee, Report 27 to 49

Holmes, J. G. Col 50, 102, 103

Hathaway, Leland Col 50

Hughes, Jno. T. Sergt- at-arms . . 50, 51

Hotchkiss, Jed Gen'l 52

Herbert, J as. R. Camp 55

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Howard, R M. Col 77

Harrison, Thos. Col 77

Helm, Geo. M. Col 77

Harris, Jeptha V. Col 77

Holder, W. D. Majr-Gen'l 78

Hickman, Jno. P. Col ,..78, 115, 117,118, 128, 131

Hayes, Maggie Davis Mrs 84, 95, 96

Hayes, Jefferson Davis Master 95, 96

Hailey, D. M. Gen'l 109

Jackson, Win. H. Gen'l 26, 27, 48, 49, 54, 76, 78, 96,

100, 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109. Speech 112 to

113, 115, 151, 152.
Jones, J. William Rev'd Chaplain General. Opening

Prayer 7, 50, 107, 114, 117' 118, 119, 127

Jones, Iredel 26

Jones, Richard E. Col 77

Jones, Harvey E. Col 78

Johnston, George D. Gen'l 109

Jones Joseph Dr. late Surgeon-General 121, 124

Knight, Jno. F 49

Keenan, Thos. S 109

Lee, S. D. Lieut-Gen'l 6, 26, 27. Report as chairman

Historical Committee 27 to 49, 28, 45, 49, 53.

Report 76 to 78, 83. Oration Jefferson Davis

Monument 154 to 166.

Laws, E. M. Gen'l 26

Lee, Fitzhugh Gen'l 115

Lee, R. E. Camp No. 1, SonsVeterans. Report School History

118, 119

Louisiana Monument Dedication 128

Moorman, Geo. Adjutant-General 8, 18, 27, 29, 48, 49, 75,

76. Report 78 to 83, 91, 116, 118, 131. Report

receipts and expenditures 132 to 150. Report

Gen'l E. Kirby Smith Funds 151 to 153

Montgomery, Wm. Capt 29

Monroe, F. A. Hon 50,101, 103,116

Myers, H. C. Col 77

Martin, J. Henry Col 77

Middlebrooks, L. L. Col 77

Marshall, Chas . Col 127

Moore, John S Col 130

Monument to Southern Women .... . 130

McCulloch, Robt. Gen'l 6

McMurray, W. J. Col : 77

Mcintosh, J. R Col 97, 101, 102, 103, 108, 109

McLaughlin, Geo. K. Adjt 126

Nicholson, J. W. Prof 28

Newman, H. A. Col 29, 45, 55, 112

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Newton, Jno. B. Bishop, Prayer , 51

Nashville 112, 113, 114

O'Ferrall, Chas. T., Gov 6. Oration 8 to 18, 55, 131

O'Brien, Frank P., Col 77

Oates, Gov 6

Owens, Jas. W .. 26

Pickett, Mrs. Gen'l Geo. E 6

Peters, Winfield, Col 29,45

Penick, W. S., Col 77

Picayune, N. O. daily 82

Powers, J. L., Col 102, 104

Philadelphia Brigade Ass'n 127

Report Historical Committee and on Southern School

History 26 to 49

do Gen'l Jno. C. Underwood, Chicago Monument 85 to 91

do Lieut. Gen'l S. D. Lee 76 to 78

do Adjutant-General, Geo. Moorman 78 to 83

do Quarter Master General, J. F. Shipp 116 to 117

do Surgeon General, D. C. H. Tebault 121 to 125

do Committee on Credentials 52

Ray, Jas. M., Col 7

Randle, E. Troup 26

Rouss, Charles Broadway 39, 40, 97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104

Letters 104 to 106

Resolutions Fredericksburg Battlefield Park 49

do Sons of Veterans 53

do Chicago Monument ... 53

do Thanks to Dr. J. L. M. Curry 76

do Time holding Nashville Reunion 114

do Vicksburg National Military Park 117

do Sons of Veterans 53, 81, 118

do R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Sons of Veterans, School

History '. 118, 119

do Camp No. 435, Augusta, Ga., to change TJ. C. V.

to C. S. A . . 125 to 126

do Reunion Blue and Giav, at Washington, Sept.

17th, 1897 127

do Anne Lee Memorial Ass'n 127, 128

do Monument to Southern Women 128 to 130

Roulhac, Thos. R 50

Rogers, W. H., Col 77

Russell, E. L, Col 77

Russell, E. J, Col 77

Robertson, Fred. L , Col 78

Raines, Jno. S., Mrs 92, 93

Ross, L. S, Gen'l 109

Richmond 113, 120, 131, 153

Shelby, Jo. O., Gen'l 6, 112

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Sheppard, Col. W. L 26

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Stubbs, J. N., Prof 90 ft

Shands, R. G., Gov ' S

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Shaver, R. G , Major-General ...'...!!" 50

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Sykes,E. T., Gen'l 5°' 81' "?

Sands, G. D., Col '" II

Stone, Jno. H., Col II

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Stout, S. H, M. D 191 199

Smith, E. Kirby, Lieut. Gen'l '.*. '. ' Jf 7

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Taylor, Richard M. Mayor iq 'iqi

Torsch, Jno. W., Col... J' rJ

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Tichenor, Dr. G. H F ro J™

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Underwood, Jno. C., Gen'l. .55, 81, 83, 84, 85.* "Report" 85 to 91

Vincent, W. G., Major-General 70

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Walker, Irvme C., Major-General ' «

Waddell, D. B . 0°

Woodson, W. H jj

Wisdom, D. M., Col on

White, W., Seymour fQ

Wiley, C. M., Col f.

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ORGANIZATION

OF THE

United Confederate Veterans,

WITH NAMES OF THE

DEPARTMENT, DIVISION AND BRIGADE COMMANDERS,
THEIR ADJUTANTS GENERAL AND ADDRESSES.

General JNO. B. GORDON, General Commanding, Atlanta, Ga.
Major General GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of tetaff.
New Orleans, La.

Army of Northern Virginia Department.
Lieut. General WADE HAMPTON, Commander, Washington, D. C.

Virginia Division.

Major General THOS. A. BRANDER, Commander, Richmond, Va.

Col. JOS. V. BIDGOOD, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Richmond,
Va.

Brig. General T. S. GARNETT, Commander 1st Brigade, Norfolk, Va.

Brig. General MICAJAH WOODS, Commander 2d Brigade, Charlottes-
ville, Va.

Maryland Division.

Major General GEO. H. STEUART, Commander, Baltimore, Md.

Col. JOHN S. SAUNDERS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Balti-
more, Md.

Brig. General ROBT. CARTER SMITH, Commander 1st Brigade, Balti-
more, Md.

Brig. General JOHN GILL, Commander 2d Brigade, Baltimore, Md.

North Carolina Division.
Major General WM. L. DeROSSET, Commander, Wilmington, N. C.
Col. JUNIUS DAVIS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Wilmington,

N. C.
Brig. General J. G. HALL, Commander 1st Brigade, Hickory, N. C.
Brig General W. L. LONDON, Commander 2d Brigade, Pittsboro, N. C.

South Carolina Division.

Major General C. IRVINE WALKER, Commander, Charleston, S. C.

Col. JAS. G. HOLMES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Charleston,
S C

Brig. General ASBURY COWARD, Commander 1st Brigade, care The
Citadel, Charleston, S. C.

Brig. General THOMAS W. CARWILE, Commander 2d Brigade, Edge-
field, S. C.

Kentuckv Division.

Major General JOHN BOYD, Commander, Lexington, Ky.

Col. JOSEPH M. JONES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Paris, Ky.

Brig. General J. B. BRIGGS, Commander 1st Brigade, Russellville, Ky.

Brig. General JAMES M. ARNOLD, Commander 'id Brigade, Newport, Ky.

Army of Tennessee Department.

Lieut. General S. D. LEE, Commander, Starksville, Miss.
Brig. General E T. SYKES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Colum-
bus, Miss.

Georgia Division.

Major General CLEMENT A. EVANS, Commander, Atlanta, Ga.

Col. ANDREW J. WEST, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff/, Atlapta^Ga.

Alabama Division.

niOTTTG^%%l¥£®?A S- FERGUS0N> Commander, Birmingham, Ala.
Col. HARVEY E. JONES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Mont-

gomerv, Ala.
Brig. General J AS. M. WILLIAMS, Commander 1st Brigade, Mobile, Ala.
Brig. General WM. RICHARDSON, Commander 2d Brigade, Huntsville,

Tennessee Division.

^j0™?Teral W' H- JACKSON, Commander, Nashville, Tenn.
Col. JOHN P. HICKMAN, Adjutant. General and Chief of Staff, Nash-
ville, Tenn.

Brig. General FRANK A. MOSES, Commander 1st Brigade, Knoxville

lenn. '

Brig. General A. J. VAUGHAN, Commander 2d Brigade, Memphis, Tenn.

Mississippi Division-
Major General W D. HOLDER, Commander, Jackson, Miss.
Col. S. B. WATTS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Meridian, Miss
Brig. General D. A. CAMPBELL, Commander 1st Brigade, Vicksbure"
Miss. b'

Brig. General W. D. CAMERON, Commander 2d Brigade, Meridian, Miss.

Louisiana Division.

Major General JOHN McGRATH, Commander, Baton Rouge, La.

Col. E. H. LOMBARD, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, New Orleans,

Florida Division.

Major General J. J. DICKISON, Commander, Ocala, Fla
Col. FRED L ROBERTSON, Adjutant General and" Chief of Staff
rsrooksville, Fla. '

Brig. General W. D. CHIPLEY, Commander 1st Brigade Pensacola Fla
Brig. General WALTER R. MOORE, Commander 2d Brigade Wefborn

Major General S. G. FRENCH, Commander 3d Brigade, Pensacola, Fla.

Trans-Mississippi Department.
Lieut. General W. L. CABELL, Commander, Dallas, Texas
Brig. General A. T. WATTS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Dallas,
lexas. ' '

Missouri Division.

S'0wGAeD^^R,S?MRLMcCULL0CH' Colander, Booneville, Mo.
Col. H A. NEWMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Huntsville, Mo

Brig. Genera Commander, 1st Brigade

Brig. General G. W. THOMPSON, Commander 2d Brigade, Barry, Mo.

Texas Division.

Major General R. G. PHELPS, Commander, LaGrange, Texas.

Ool. H. B. &TODDARD, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Bryan, Texas.

Northeastern Texas Sub-Division.

nrfVw M/j*o^neral T" M- SC0TT- Commander, Melissa, Texas.
Col. W M. ABERNATHY, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, McKinney
lexas. •'

Brig. General JOHN W. WEBB, Commander 1st Brigade, Paris Texas
Brig. General J. M.PEARSON, Commander 2d Brigade, M«S"^Te".s.

Northwestern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General ROBERT COBB, Commander, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Col. WILLIAM PARKE SKEENE, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff,

Wichita Falls, Texas.
Brig. General W. B. PLEMONS, Commander 1st Brigade, Amarillo,

Texas.
Brig. General A. T. GAY, Commander 2d Brigade, Graham, Texas.

Southeastern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General W. G. BLAIN, Commander. Mexia, Texas.

Col. THOS. J. GIBSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Mexia,

Texas.
Brig. General W. N. NORWOOD, Commander 1st Brigade, Navasota,

Texas.
Brig. General T. D. ROCK, Commander 2d Brigade, Woodville, Texas.

Southwestern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General W. C. KROEGER, Commander, San Antonio, Texas.
Col. J. R. GORDON*, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, San Antonio,

Texas.
Brig. General T. W. DODD, Commander 1st Brigade, Laredo, Texas.
Brig. General H. L. BENTLEY, Commander 2d Brigade, Abeline, Texas.

Western Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General JAMES BOYD, Commander, Belton, Texas.

Col W. M. McGREGOR, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Cameron,

Texas.
Brig. General H. E. SHELLEY, Commander 1st Brigade, Austin, Texas,
Brig. General J. T. HARRIS, Commander 2d Brigade, Thurl>er Junction,.

Texas.

Arkansas Division.

Major General R. G. SHAVER, Commander, Centre Point, Ark.

Col V. Y. COOK, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Elmo, Independ-
ence Co , Ark

Brig. General JAS. P. EAGLE. Commander 1st Brigade, Lonoke, Ark.

Brig. General DAN'L H. REYNOLDS, Commander 2d Brigade, Lake
Viliagre, Ark.

Brig. General JORDAN E. CRAVENS, Commander 3d Brigade, Clarks
ville, Ark.

Brig. General CHAS. A. BRIDEWELL, Commander 4th Brigade, Prescot
Ark.

Indian Territory Division.

Major General R. B. COLEMAN, Commander, McAlester, Indian Terri

torv.
Col. LOUIS C. TENNENT, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Mc

Alester, Indian Territory.
Brig. General JOHN L. GALT, Commander Choctaw Brigade, Ardmore

Indian Territory.
Brig. General D. M. HAILEY, Commander Choctaw Brigade, Krebs

Indian Territory.
Brig. General JOHN BIRD, Commander Cherokee Brigade, Muldow

Indian Territory.

Oklahoma Division.

Major General EDWARD L. THOMAS, Commander, Sac and Fox Agency

Okla.
Col. J. 0. CASLER, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Oklahoma Citv

Okli.

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.
[Official.]

PROOBBDINOS

— OF THE

Axty <Mnqua\ JVIeetirjg arjjd Reunion,

— HELD AT-

Richmond, Va.,
Tuesday, Wednesday aufl llnrsilay, Juue 3011 and July 1st and 2d, 1896.

FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

The Sixth Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans
assembled at the Auditorium in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, the
30th clay of June, at 11 a. m., with eight hundred and sixty camps
represented.

At 11 a. m. Gen. J. B. Gordon, Commander-in-Chief of the U.
C. V.'s, appeared, accompanied by his staff, and as he walked towards
the platform a most profound and enthusiastic greeting was given
to him. Almost every one raised from his or her seat, cheered
wildly, waved hats, handkerchiefs and umbrellas, the band played
Dixie and the vast structure shook with deafening applause, and
the old Confederate jell could be heard many squares away.

In the centre of the spacious platform sat Gen. J. B. Gordon,
Commander-in-Chief, while on his left were seated Lieut. Gen. S. D.
Lee, Commanding Army of Tennessee Department, with the staffs
of the different departments immediately surrounding them.

Also on the platform were seated Gen. William H. Jackson, of
Tennessee, ex-Governor F. P. Fleming, of Florida, Governor Charles
T. O'Ferrell, of Virginia, Gen. (Bishop) Ellison Capers, of South
Carolina, Mrs. Gen. George E. Pickett, Mrs. J. B. Gordon, ex-Gov-
ernor James P. Eagle, of Arkansas, Gen. Clement A. Evans, of
Georgia, Gen. Joe Shelby, of Missouri, Gen. Fred S. Ferguson, of
Alabama, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Gen. and Mrs. Peyton Wise, Governor
Oates, of Alabama, Major Gen. C. Irvine Walker, of South Carolina,
Gen. Robert McCullough, of Missouri, Gen. W. L. DeRosset, of
North Carolina, and many other distinguished soldiers and civilians,
including many representative ladies of the South.

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Col. James M. Eay, of Zebulon Vance Camp, No. 681. of Ashe-
ville, N. C, advanced to the platform and presented Gen. Gordon
with a gavel for the use of the convention, made from the wood of
a tree cut down by bullets atChickamauga, and containing a bullet
embedded in the heart of the wood.

Gen. Gordon waved for silence, and said%e held in his hand a
gavel made of wood, from a tree cut down by bullets upon the
immortal field of Chickamauga, where so many noble men fell.
And, with three raps of this historic gavel, he said : " The Chaplain
General will now open our proceedings, as becomes us, by invokiug
God's blessing upon our deliberations."

Rev. Dr. J. William Jones, the Chaplain General of the United
Confederate Veterans, then offered the following fervent prayer:

Oh ! God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come.
God of Israel, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — God of the
centuries— God of our Fathers — God of Stonewall Jackson and
Robert Lee, and Jefferson Davis — Lord of Hosts — God of the whole
of our common country — God of our Southland — Our God ! We
bring Thee the adoration of grateful hearts as we gather in our
Annual Reunion to-day.

We thank Thee that when men were needed all through the
centuries Thou didst raise them up. We thank Thee, especially, for
the noble leaders thou didst give to our Southland in " The days
that tried men's souls," and for the unknown and unrecorded
heroes Of the rank, and file, who followed these leaders to an immor-
tality of fame.

" We thank Thee, O God, that while so many of our comrades
fell in battle or died from wounds or disease, and so many have
since stepped out of ranks, yet there are so many still living, and so
many who are permitted to gather in this great meeting.

We pray Thy blessing upon those assembled here, and upon all
of our comrades everywhere.

God, bless our Confederate soldiers, their widows and their
orphans. Give them temporal blessings convenient for them; but,
above all, richest spiritual blessings.

God, bless this Confederate Veterans' Association, its officers
and members, and all of the vast crowds of Confederates gathered
in their old capital.

God bless our entire country — that we may have fruitful
seasons and returning business prosperity. God bless our South-
land, that the prosperity thou hast given it in the past may be but an
earnest of yet more glorious things to come, and that the day may
be hastened when she shall take her old place in leading the
councils of this great country.

The Lord hear us; and answer us, and bless us, and pardon and
save us, we beg for Christ, the dear Redeemer's sake, Amen !

After this beautiful and appropriate prayer, the band, in full
appreciation of the spirit of the occasion, here struck up, " Nearer,
My God, to Thee."

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GOVERNOR O'FERRALL'S ORATION.

[Note. — This gem of oratory and heartfelt welcome to the Veterans is inserted
here in the order in which it was delivered, so it can be retained in the possession
of every camp, and by every Veteran, as a priceless treasure. — Adjutant General.]

Gen. Gordon then introduced the orator of the day, as follows :

'•'Ladies, Comrades, my Confederate Countrymen — You are now to
experience a rare treat, to listen to the more than eloquent words of
welcome as they fall from the lips of one of Virginia's silver-tongued
orators, one whose name will be forever borne upon her immortal
roll of honor, won upon her battle fields, and who has equally dis-
tinguished himself in her Councils of Peace; I now have the honor
and exquisite pleasure to introduce to you the superb Chief Execu-
tive of the Old Dominion, Governor Charles T. O'Ferrall, who will
welcome you to the soil of Old Virginia, as only he can do."

After an almost unprecedented ovation, Governor O'Ferrell
spoke as follows:

" Veterans of the Confederacy. — Would that I could fully voice
my gratitude to Him ' who wheels His throne on the rolling words'
for lengthening my days to witness this meeting and to speak to
this great muster of soldiers, heroes and patriots.

" This panorama will ever be rivetted in my memory, and
unless reason is dethroned, when life's tide is fast ebbing, I shall
recall these frosted heads and silvern locks now before me.

" What is this occasion? Why this mighty gathering ? It is a
reunion of men once engaged in a common cause.

" A little more than a generation ago a struggle began in this
land, ' the garden of Liberty's tree ' on this continent, which was
unsurpassed in its fierceness in history with its vast volumes. It
was a struggle of eleven States of the American Union to free them-
selves from the bonds that held them to the remaining twenty-one
States and nine Territories. It was a struggle of five and a half
millions of people to sever the ties that bound them to twenty-one
and a half millions. It was the southern section of the Republic
against the northern section.

" On the side of the South was a land without a navy to guard
her waters and protect her seaboard, without a treasury, without a
currency which could be used beyond her borders, without effective
arms and munitions except such as were captured; without bounties,
for she spurned the idea of filthy lucre as an incentive to her sons
to obey her call; without sufficient food or clothing; with her ports
blockaded, and an army of six hundred thousand.

ARMS AND MUNITIONS IN PLENTY.

" On the side of the North was a land with a powerful navy; a
treasury plethoric with money, which was current everywhere, arms
and munitions of the most approved patterns without limit, food and
clothing in abundance, recruits from every clime, drawn by heavy
bounties; resources of all kinds unbounded, and an army of
2,700,000.

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" No ocean or other barrier separated the sections; nature
afforded no obstruction to invading hosts; no forts could be built
by the South to guard successfully important points. In the open
field, without helmet or breast-plate, six Confederates met and
engaged in mortal combat twenty-seven Federals.

" Have I drawn the contrast too sharply ? Is my statement too
strong? Certainly not, unless it be as to the relative strength of
the two armies . I have spoken from the statistics of history, and
surely it will not be charged that the pen of the chronicler has been
partial to the South? But I will leave the historic recorder to
stand or fall by his writings, and will call up witnesses whose testi-
mony no doubting Thomas ever can question. At the National
Capitol, with ink that will not fade, upon parchment that will not
waste away, the facts are so plainly inscribed that they cannot be
misunderstood or perverted. I lay the Federal army and pension
rolls before the world. They shall speak and herald the truth. On
the 30th day of June, 1895, the names of 1,125 000 living Federal
soldiers of the war between the States were recorded in the War
Department, of which number 970,524 were drawing pensions,
amounting to nearly $140,000,000 the preceding fiscal year.

"How many Confederate soldiers are still on the shores of
Time? No government rolls contain their names; they are im-
printed only upon the tablets of Southern hearts, but from reliable
information there are not more than 225,000 in all the States, and
we will accept this estimate as approximately correct when we look
around us and find that, like mile- stones on the highway, far apart
they stand — each lonely, with no comrade nigh at hand.

FIVE DEAD TO ONE LIVING.

"So, then, assuming that 'the remorseless archer" has aimed
his shafts with impartiality, the ratio of about five to one still living
indicates what it was in the lurid glare of battle.

" With these facts before us let me proceed, for, while I desire
not to rekindle a single spark of the dying embers of the civil
strife, if any remain, I must be ' as harsh as truth and as uncom-
promising as justice." I shall allow no conservatism to bridle my
tongue nor stifle freedom of expression . I shall

" ' nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice.'

" With such disparity in the strength of the armies and the
resources of the two sections, is it a wonder that the children of
the South of the present day can hardly realize that for four years
the flag of the Confederacy was kept floating in heaven's breezes,
and that the stories of Southern valor and fortitude sound to them
like romance or fiction? They cannot understand how skill, dash
and daring made up for overwhelming numbers, and devotion and
self-sacrifice were able to neutralize the advantages of limitless
resources.

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" It is well for them that there are living participants in the
stirring scenes of those trying years to relate to them, face to face,
eternal truths ; to tell them that the soldiers of the Confederacy
not only defended their own soil, but three times penetrated the
enemy's country and three times thundered at the gates of the Fed-
eral Capitol, until the Federal President was ready to flee for safety.

"To tell them that leader after leader of the Army of the
Potomac was relieved because unable to cope with the leader of
the Army of Northern Virginia, and that every attack made upon
the Confederate Capitol was repelled with terrific loss. To tell
them that, finally, when a commander was assigned to the disheart-
ened and discouraged army, who declared he ' never manoeuvred/
and inaugurated a campaign of reckless disregard of human life
and relied solely upon brute force — that he, too, for months only
drove his divisions to defeat, slaughter and death ; that in the
engagements of May, 1861, 60,000 hurled back 150,000, with a Fed-
eral loss of 41,000 killed, wounded and missing ; that at Cold Har-
bor, ' in the gray, rainy dawn,' 160,000 rushed with frantic impetu-
osity upon barely 50,000, and in thirty minutes dismay was spread
in the blue lines and the shouts of victory ascended from the lines
in gray ; that during the last autumn and winter 55,000 guarded a
line thirty miles long and kept 180,000 at bay. To tell them that
these achievements of the Army of Northern Virginia are only
examples of its valor and of the valor of the other armies of the
South.

SOLDIERS AS TEACHERS.

" Yes, it is well that Confederates still live to teach the chil-
dren of the Southland the facts which proclaim the prowess of the
southern armies in tones that awaken the slumbering ages, and that
the Confederacy fell not until the weight of immeasurable odds was
thrown against her lines and her intrepid sons, worn and hungry,
had reached the extreme limit of human endurance, and she had no
reserve, no recruits coming in, for the boy of tender years, as well
as the man with wrinkled brow, stood in the breach, and she was
taunted by ber foeman with 'robbing the cradle and the grave.'
Yes, to teach them that it was not till then that the spear of right
was broken under the heel of might, and in the homely, yet
pointed, reply of Robert Toombs to a taunt, that ' we simply wore
ourselves out whipping our enemies,' and that if we had met them
man to man, or two to one, our flag would this hour be streaming in
this sunlight, and our country exalted among the nationalities of
the earth.

" Veterans and comrades, you were enlisted in those bands who
wrote their names in glory's skies, and carved them deep in the
Temple of Fame; who made the cause of the South so imperishable
and the renown of her armies so fadeless. You are the heroes of
Manassas, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor,
Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Perryville,

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Fredericksburg, Murfreesboro, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicks-
burg, Chickatnauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, the
Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Kennesaw Mountain, Petersburg, Atlanta,
Nashville, Fort Steadnian and Hatcher's Run. Indeed, I might con-
tinue this list until perplexed by numbers.

" You carried your ensign wherever a warrior's arm could bear
it. You endured hardships which no human imagination could
picture and no mortal tongue could describe.

A GRAND COMPARISON.

" Your exploits equalled those of the heroic age in Grecian
legends and your devotion was not surpassed by Leonidas and his
300 at Thermopylae. In the path of duty no danger daunted you,
no suffering subdued you, no force appalled you, and no defeat dis-
heartened you. True as the dial to the sun, firm as the rock on the
mountain crest, resolute as the lion aroused in his lair, with
unblanched cheek and steady nerve, you obeyed every command,
however rained the missiles of death. The greater the peril the
stiff er were your sinews; the fiercer the battle the hotter was your
blood. No Grecian phalanx, no Roman legion were ever adorned
with badges more honorable than those you wear upon your manly
breasts.

" It was neither conquest nor power for which you fought; it
was in defence of home and Country. The rights for which the
founders of this republic struck were no more sacred to them than
the rights for which you struck were dear to you . If you were
rebels, so were the fathers of constitutional liberty of 120 years ago.
If you fought to sever your connection with a Union whose bonds
were galling, so did the men now immortalized in song and story
when they snapped the cord of British allegiance in 1776. If you
had within you a spirit that would not submit tamely to wrong and
dared to assert itself in the front of grim-visaged might, it came to
you by ancestral inheritance, or if foreign born, you imbibed it
from the air you breathed .

" Rebels, ' tis a holy name;

The name our fathers bore
When battling in the cause of right,
Against the tyrant in his might,

In the dark days of yore."

" Then, call us Rebels, if you will,

We glory in the name,
For bending under UDJust laws,
And swearing iaith to an unjust cause,

We count a greater shame."

NO RECREANT VETERAN.

" Am I not reflecting your sentiments, my comrades ? Is there
a Confederate Veteran who is ashamed to stand with uncovered
head in the sight of God and man and defend his cause against

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aspersion ? Is there one who has any apologies to offer, retractions
to make I If so, breathe not his name, but let it rest as unhonored
as his relics will lie in oblivion's cold grave. There is another
lesson we should teach our children. We should not only impress
upon them the stupendous odds against us and the prowess of the
sons of the South, and that the term " Rebel," as applied to us is
an insignia of honor, but instill into them that we went to war only
after all means had been exhausted to secure a recognition of rights
guarauteed by a government which was the golden fruit of a vic-
tory baptized by the blood of Southerners from Boston Heights to
the plains of Yorktown ; that it was not until we found that we
were no longer to be treated by our Northern brethren as joint
heirs with them in a country which had been aroused to action by
the bold words and fiery eloquence of a Southerner, whose Declara-
tion of Independence was penned by a Southerner, whose armies
were led to triumph by a Southerner, and whose Constitution was
framed under the watchful eye of a Southerner.

" Yel> ifc is our bounden duty to them and posterity to proclaim
that we did not strike until our remonstrances were treated with
contempt, and our Northern brethren, like the British Kino-, were
'deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity, and determined to
continue ' a long train of abuses and usurpations,' and the bonds
had become too galling, oppressive and dangerous to be worn by a
people breathing the inspiring sentiments of liberty, imbued with
the intense pride of freemen.

A GREAT PRIVILEGE.

" Veterans and comrades, how great is the privilege you are
enjoying. While the whizzing bullet and shrieking shell and all
shapes of foul disease counted their victims by the tens of thou-
sands and myriads since the bugle blast and drum beat ceased to
thrill have passed to the eternal camping ground, you are still left
in the land of your renown and permitted to participate in the sad
pleasures and solemn rights of this occasion. From far and near
you have wended your way, like pilgrims to their Mecca, to these
precincts, where your cause was entombed. You represent not only
every State from whose capitol dome the cross of St. Andrew
rustled its silken folds, but Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Del-
aware-States not in the constellation of eleven stars— but whose
plumed knights fell on almost every field, and with the crimson
flow of noble breeds watered the soil, perhaps, of every State in
the glorious confederation, and even the District, wherein the Fed-
eral Capitol throws its shadow, from whence young Columbians
came rushing to join the ranks of the men in gray and place their
all upon the altar of the South.

" Oh! how your minds must be traveling with swift wings back
over the events of your early manhood I

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"In the springtime that casts its fragrance and 'paints the
laughing soil,' and makes all nature joyous, thirty-five years ago each
of you buckled on your armor, bade loved ones good-by, received a
mother's blessing or a wife's warm kiss, and unwound perhaps tiny
arms from about your neck, closed the door of home behind you,
and reported to your country for duty. Soon opened the carnival
of gore. First the picket's signal gun was heard, then the desultory
fire of the skirmishers, then came volley after volley of the line
and the roaring of cannonry, followed before long by the ringing
command, 'Charge!' that rose above the din like a greeting hail to
death ; then the yell that no foeman will ever forget ; then the re-
sounding shout of victory, or, perchance, the stern rallying cry of
a repulse. This pictures truly, but in dull language, your expe-
rience running through the cycling seasons of the memorable
years.

EXHILARATING MEMORIES.

" How these memories must be firing your brain, and the feelings
of a night after a battle returning to you when either under a clear or
murky sky, in the darkness or moonlight, you sat around your
bivouac fires bewailing the loss of comrades or wrapped your blankets
about you to seek relief from your heartaches, but only to find rest-
less repose or to dream of the noble fellows whose warrior spirits that
day had taken their flight to meet the warrior's God.

" But 1 must stop. I must banish, if I can, thoughts that open
wounds so wide. Precious as they may be, these reflections touch a
chord so sensitive as to leave naught but grief and pain.

" Veterans and comrades, ' the lion never counts the foes he con-
fronts, nor weighs the enemies he has to scatter,' and so it was with
the Confederate soldier, when he returned to the walks of
'peace and slumberous calm' he carried the same courage with him.
He had surrendered in obedience to the order of his commander,
given when further resistance would have been suicide. He was
ready to still stand, though the blue lines encircled him like the
coils of an anaconda, and certain death awaited him. So, when he
took his parole, he held his head erect, and though he was vanquished,
it required not the candle of Diogenes to discover in him a man still
of full stature and noble heart. In the majesty of his unconquered
will, and with his great soul trembling with emotions, he beheld his
country, so bright and beautiful, prosperous and plentiful,
before it was trampled by the hoof of war, in devastation and
desolation, penury and want. He found her devoted women on
bended knees sending up invocation for succor and help, and her
patriarchs with bowed heads and drooping forms sitting in the hush
and stillness of the awful hour. He listened to the peals of her
church bells summoning her people to the holy sanctuaries, and they
sounded to him like funeral knells.

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POST-BELLUM WORK.

" But his nerve failed not, and the iron was still in his veins, and
girding up his loins, he registered a vow to dispel the gloom that
enveloped his stricken land and raise her from her depths of misery,
and carry her forward until she reached dizzy heights of material
strength and commercial power. His vow was wafted by the winds
that were sighiag, and the breezes that were whispering never-dying
names, to every corner where the ruins were spread and the living
were treading light on the mounds of the dead. The fates seemed to
be against him for a season, but, with a devotion and courage
sublime he pursued his task, and now we behold in the effulgence
and lustre of the South's redemption and progress, the grand
culmination of his efforts and the splendid fulfillment of his vow.

" Evidences of restoration and prosperity have gladdened you
everywhere on your way. Razed and beaten plantations, over which
your visions swept in the dark epoch, when your heads were not
hoary nor your locks silvern, when your bodies were strong, and your
steps were nimble, are now smiling with bounteous crops; the closed
avenues of trade have been reopened; the quenched fires of industrial
enterprise have been rekindled, and multiplied a hundredfold;
the clogged wheels of commerce nave been set free and are revolving
with lightning speed; the recesses of the earth have been explored,
and the breasts of the mountains opened and made to yield up their
treasures.

" Surely, indeed, is this Southland of ours basking in the sun-
shine of strength, wealth and power, all resulting from the indomita-
ble will of her sons who were enlisted under her banner which was
furled. She relied upon them as her support in war, and they have
been her mainstay in peace.

" I come now to the performance of the special duty assigned me,
I speak not at random when I assure those of you from beyond
Virginia's borders that from the rock-ribbed peaks to the rolling
billows, from rural district and busy mart, from city, town, village and
hamlet; from stately mansion, humble dwelling and Jowly cottage —
from everywhere within the confines of this ancient commonwealth,
come cordial greetings and earnest welcomes.

SCENES OF TEIUMPH.

" Here in every landscape are fields of your triumphs, and here ,
too, is the fated spot where the doom of your Confederacy was
sealed. All around you are memorials of the bitter strife where you
can linger and commuue with yo.ir thoughts until you grow sad, and
the teardrop come speaking more eloquently than a thousand tongues.
Here are monuments massive an 1 compact in their superstructures to
defy the stox-ms in their rage, yet they may succumb, but the memor-
ies they are intended to perpetuate will live on in sempiturnal
verdure through years unmeasured in their flight.

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" Just in front of us, astride his noble war-steed, is the great
captain of the nineteenth century, unsurpassed in legend or tradition.
How thankful are we that the human hand has been gifted with the
skill to convert inanimate matter into the living form of him, who,
with Washington.

" shall ride immortal,

And shall ride abreast of Time;
Shall light up stately history,

And blaze in epic rhyme;
Both patriots, both Southerners true,

Both " rebels," both sublime.

" Yonder, close by aud facing the old capitol, so historic, in
whose rotunda his mortal remains were laid in state, wrapped in
martial glory and embedded in the flowery offerings of a sorrowing
multitude, ' stands like a stone wall ' that heir of fame whose genius
lighted* its own course, and hewed its own way, and whose soul knew
no fear but the fear of God.

" Almost within sight, and on a beautiful boulevard sweet with
roses, is the figure of Hill, ' the young thunderbolt.' From the
high pedestal his eyes seem to be fixed upon the tall pine, still rooted
in the distance, marking the spot where he fell a martyr to duty and
his blood enriched the soil of the old Commonwealth that gave him
birth.

Not far beyond, on the wayside, and among the cedars, stands a
white column to indicate the field in which the chevalier of the
Virginia army, the fearless and intrepid Stuart received his death-
wound from the hand of a dastard whose life he had just spared.

" Amid the evergreens of the peaceful retreat, where the song-
birds warble their lays and woman's hand tenderly cares for its turfy
mounds, and clears away noxious weeds, is the tribute of a loving
people to the gallant Pickett, whose charge at Gettysburg is
' embalmed in deathless story.'

" Iu Monroe Park is the statute of Wickham, whose men ever
followed his plume wherever he led, and he dared to lead wherever
the bravest dared to venture.

" In the centre of this city's westward march is the ideal
Howitzer in bronze, serving his gun in the clang and smoke of a

battle —

" Unmoved, undismayed

In the crash and carnage of the cannonade."

soldiers' monument.

" On Libby Hill rises the pillar to the soldiers and sailors of the
Confederacy, crowned by the picket on his post, looking to the front
and vigilantly guarding the approach to where his comrades slumber
or lie awaiting the coming of the advancing column. No tribute
more deserving could be paid, for it was the deeds of the private
soldiers and sailors that made our generals and admirals achieve our
victories, immortalized our flag and garlanded our cause.

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" In the vicinity of Seven Pines and Mechanicsville, whose
dreadful thunders loud roared, is a marble shaft reared in grateful
remembrance of the patriot braves who lie under the bowers of
beautiful Oakwood.

"And, in fragrant and picturesque Hollywood, above the dash-
ing waters of the historic James, inspiring in its proportions, is the
starry-pointing pyramid of granite with its circling and clinging
vine, emblematical of a people's strong and cohesive love for the
memory of the heroes who rest at its base or within its shadow.

" Yes, wherever your steps may carry you, wherever you may
roam within the classic environs of this Capital City of your Con-
federacy, you will find something to awake u your emotions, quicken
your pulse and bring a glow to your cheeks.

AN UNPARALLELED SCENE.

"The hours, however, will pass too swiftly, I fear, for you to
visit every spot dear to you by associations and memories, before
martial strains will summon you to take your places in the proces-
sion which will move with measured tread to where a sacred service
will be performed and a holy duty discharged. On Thursday next,
when the sun is in the meridian, you will proceed to a plat once a
tented field, where the corner stone of another monument will be
laid. It will be a scene unparalleled, unless I have read history's
pages in vain. What monument is it? Is it to the father of a
country, or a conquering hero ? Oh, no ! Neither ; but to a van-
quished leader and fallen chieftain. Shafts and columns have been
reared, and cenotaphs and mausoleums built in all ages to the vic-
torious and triumphant : but rarely to the defeated. Standing
alone in majestic splendor will be the assembly on the second day
of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six, to do homage to the memory of the central figure of a
lost cause, and the disrobed executive of a conquered country
nearly a generation after that cause went down into Cimmerian
darkness, and that country was wiped from the face of the map,
When the work which will be begun so soon shall be completed,
the world will behold a monument erected to an unsceptered ruler
by the free-will offerings of the scattered remnants of his armies
and the descendants of his dead soldiers; by the high and the
humble, the rich and the poor. Not a block will be placed by tax-
ation, not a stone will be laid by government donation.

" Where do we find an explanation of this departure from the
rule which seems to have governed people in all the rounds of the
centuries ? We find it in the hearts of the thousands here singing
paeans and praises to him whose dust is inured in the soil of Vir-
ginia, but over whose tomb all the South keeps vigil. We find it in
the deep and ever-living conviction of the sons and daughters of
the South, in the eternal righteousness of the Confederate cause.

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THE SOUTH LOVED DAVIS.

"The South loved her President, and had unbending confidence
in his loyalty and fidelity while he presided over her destinies.
When the crushing blow came she knew he had been powerless to
avert it, and when he was cast into prison her love grew stronger
and stronger ; as the chains on his ankles clanked the gloom of his
dungeon increased, and outrages and insults were heaped upon
him. Her admiration for his heroic bearing in his vicarious suffer-
ings mounted higher and higher as the days, weeks and months ran
their weary courses.

" Finally, when the heavy doors of his cell creaking on their
hinges swung open and he walked forth to liberty again, she followed
him into the seclusion of a private citizen, and there she saw brought
out in bolder colors if possible his sublime character and manifold
virtues. With a dignity born only of greatness, with unflinching
firmness, and dauntless resolution, he received every dart that sped
its way from the tight-drawn bow of malice and every shaft that
malignant enmity could hurl. With eagerness he awaited his trial for
high crimes and misdemeanors, anxious for a jury to sit in judgment
upon him, and the world's tribunal to vindicate him and his people.
But his earnest wish was never gratified. His country under him was
an organized nation, and his captors knew it; when it capitulated it
became a subjugated nation, and his captors knew it, and they dared
not, in the face of the nations of the earth, try him for treason, and
the prosecution was dismissed, though he had been made to suffer the
penalties of a malefactor.

" Each day from his incarceration forward added a leaf to his
fame-weaved chaplet, until ' the insatiate and impartial angel '
touched him, and he passed peacefully from these stormy shores to
blissful shades.

" ' Marble may crumble, bronze may corrode, the storms may level, and the ele-
ments may destroy;
Yet triumph not, O, Time; strong towers may decay,
But a great name shall never pass away."

MAV NEVER MEET AGAIN.

" Veterans and comrades, some of us may never witness another
reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, or meet again in the
flesh. The ice of age is in the veins, and no fibre of steel longer in
the sinews of many. Hourly our ranks are thinning, and the air is
full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead. But let
us here clasp hands and vow that until called to cross over the river
we will be true to ourselves and to each other. Let us charge our
children to keep green the memories we adore after we shall have
passed away, and to cherish as the richest of all legacies a father's
honorable record as a Confederate soldier.

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" Now, in conclusion, welcome again, heroes of a storm-tossed
past, patriots of a saddened but glorified land. Welcome, ye Veterans
who stood in the line of duty amid the whirlwind, the earthquake and
the flame; amid the shower of lead and the carnage of battle; amid
wreck and desolation, with brain that never swerved, muscle that
never quivered, and soul that never quailed.

" Welcome, all within Virginia's gates; welcome to her dominions
'without tithe or toll '; welcome to her homes hung with salutations;
welcome to her open heart, overflowing with gratitude, love and
veneration."

Tumultuous cheers and waving of banners and beating of canes
followed Governor O'Ferrall's splendid address of welcome, and so
deafening was the applause that the beautiful strains of the " Bonnie
Blue Flag," as played by the band, were not heard, even a short
distance away, for some time.

[Note. — The applause which greeted the orator was so frequent and con-
tinuous, that at times he could scarcely proceed, and is omitted at points where it
occurred in the body of the oration, as it would mar its beauty. — Atjtjtant
General.]

In the midst of Governor O'Ferrall's oration there was a com-
motion in the rear of the hall, which continued to grow and swell
until those seated upon the platform could notice the cause of the
excitement — the arrival of Lieut. Gen. Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina. Gen. Gordon waved his hand and requested Governor
O'Ferrall to suspend for a moment, saying : "I want to give these
boys a chance to greet and shout over the great cavalry chieftain of
South Carolina." General Hampton was met in the middle aisle by
General Moorman, who took his arm and escorted him, amidst the
wildest cheering, to a seat on the platform to the left of General
Gordon. After an enthusiastic impromptu ovation given the old
hero with a will, Governor O'Ferrall proceeded with his oration.

Subsequently, amidst the wildest cheering, Lieut. Gen. Cabell,
Commanding Trans-Mississippi Department, was escorted by Gen-
eral Moorman to a seat on the platform to the right of General
Gordon.

Just at the close of Governor O'Ferrall's oration, General
Moorman escorted Lieut. Gen. S. B. Buckner, of Kentucky, upon
the platform. He was received with deafening cheers and was
cordially welcomed by General Gordon and introduced to the audi-
ence in the following words : " I want to present to the boys the
eagle of Kentucky, old Simon Bolivar Buckner." General Buckner
then addressed the Veterans as follows :

GENERAL BUCKNER'S ADDRESS.

"Comrades — I come to day, as we came thirty years ago, from
the frontier of this country, to give what aid we could to the cause
that is represented here to-day. [Loud applause.] As I say, we
were from the border land. My State did not secede, but many of

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her sons, believing in the principles of civil liberty, which were advo-
cated by those people of the South, left home and kindred behind us
to contend for those principles and cast our fortunes with you.
[Renewed applause] Since that time we have seen no occasion to
regret our course. [Continued cheers.]

"We are proud of your achievements, and we, of Kentucky,
who sided with you, believe that what is left of civil liberty in this
land was maintained and won by you of tbe South. [Cheers.]
Nor do we regret our action — because we put regrets behind us.
Whilst proud of our past, we do not regret the reunion in this city.
While we believe in the principles of civil liberty, for which we
fought, we think that it is better to have an undivided land than to
have armies upon our frontiers and constant contentions amongst
ourselves. Whilst cherishing the past we look proudly to the
future, as we have seen that we have retained our proper place in
the union of all the States. [Great applause.]

" I will not detain you, my comrades, from the regular proceed-
ings of the day. 1 thank you for this cordial reception you have
given me, because in giving it to me you give it to those soldiers in
Kentucky who, leaving everything behind them, fought for prin-
ciple alone." [Loud cheers ]

At the close of General Buckner's remarks, the Bues Band very
appropriately struck up " My Old Kentucky Home," which was
greeted with cheers.

" I have now the pleasure," said General Gordon, in again
addressing the audience, '• of presenting to you the Mayor of this
historic city, who will welcome us to its hearts and homes."

Mayor Richard M. Taylor, of Richmond, then spoke as follows:

MAYOR TAYLOR'S ADDRESS.

Mr. Chairman, Veterans, Ladies and Gentlemen.— We meet to-day
on historic ground. No higher privilege will ever be accorded to me
than the one I now enjoy. As the Chief Magistrate of this city I am
to bid its old defenders, in the name of all its people, welcome to our
hearts and homes. Ever since our distinguished townsman General
Peyton Wise returned to us from your last reunion with the glad
news that, this time, you would honor us with your presence, it has
been our earnest wish to give you a greeting that would show our
affectionate regard for such worthy guests. Our houses are open to
you, and on the threshold we will meet you, with the clasp of a
brother's hand. [Applause.]

Your presence at this time is especially grateful, for you come for
the pious purpose of laying the foundation of a noble monument, to
the illustrious President of the Southern Confederacy. We are
deeply thankful to you for this service, and that our city is to be blest
by this memorial of virtue, bravery and undying constancy. We
rejoice to see you here — where Jefferson Pavis lived and where his
ashes rest. [Applause.]

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You stood by us here, iu our greatest extremity, and now, in our
better days, we try to show our gratitude. It is our sincere hope that
our coming together may be in everyway pleasant, and that whtnyou
leave us, you may carry away the sweet memory of friendship begun
amidst the dark clouds of war made perfect in the radiant sunshine of
peace. [Applause.]

In the name of our people, I most cordially give to you the
freedom of our city.

At the conclusion of Mayor Taylor's speech, General Gordon
said:

" I have now the pleasure of introducing to you General Pejton
Wise, who will turn over to you this beautiful tabernacle."

General Peyton Wise then addressed the audience as follows:

GENERAL WISE'S ADDRESS.

General Wise, addressing General Gordon, said:

" The time has come, my General, for me, on behalf of the
Reunion Committee, to turn over this hall, built and decorated in
honor of these Veterans, and everything else, and everybody
in Richmond to your use and command, as Commander-in-
Chief of these forces. For the rest, I want to say a word to these
friends, not in the way of a speech, but to tell them a story. The
best part of the story is, that it isn't a story at all. It is the absolute
truth.

" When I was at the Fifth Annual Reunion in the goodly city of
Houston, I attended a reception at the house of Judge Masterson,
given in honor of our dear Winnie Davis. I staid there half an hour
and then took the nearest street car. After I entered I found
myself opposite to the weirdest figure of a Confederate Veteran I
ever saw. Long gray locks fell upon his shoulders, from which
depended a seedy old gray uniform overcoat lined with ragged red
flannel. His limbs were cased in well worn gray breeches, which
were loosely tucked in a pair of coarse top boots. His face was pale
and ashen from the stubby gray beard that grew upon it. Big black
eyes pierced through the spectacles perched upon a hooked nose, and
the typical old time black slouch hat covered his head. When he saw
my Lee Camp uniform, he asked. * And where did you come from?'
I replied that I came from Richmond, in Virginia. He said, ' I fit all
along there during the war, and them are the best people I ever saw.
When I was sick and wounded and in hospital the best ladies in the
land dressed my wounds and washed my feet; they read the Bible to
me, and they nourished me back to health and to the Confederate
army.' He added, in a rambling sort of way, 'I tuk a great many
things in Virginia, and the curious part of it all was that, although I
swept a great many plantations of their chickens and their eggs, the
next time I got back there the latchstring was on the outside, and I
had new laid eggs for breakfast. But I never regretted anything
that I tuk in Virginia, except one thing. You see, Rogers was my

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friend. He and I went foragin' together. One night when Rogers
and I were out foragin'; we came to the house of a ' widder'; there
was a dim light in the window, and there was a dead baby in the
house. We examined the commissaries and found eleven chickens and
three pieces of shoat. But, recollecting the dead baby, I said to
Rogers, ' Rogers, suppose we move on,' and we moved on. We
marched many a mile, but we found nary a chicken, nary an egg, and
nary a piece of shoat; and we turned back to the camp sorrowful.
By and by, we came to the widder's house again. There was the game
dim light in the window, and we knew that behind it were the widder
and the dead baby, and I said to Rogers, ' Rogers, what shall we do?'
and Rogers, he said, ' Suppose we divide wid her.'

" Here I interposed and asked, rather, sternly, ' What did you
do, sir ?' and he replied, ' Rogers, he tuk six of them ar chickens.'
'And what did you do, sir?' I asked, still more sternly, and he
answered, ' I tuk two of them ar pieces of shoat. I have always
been sorry about this, but I am going to Virginia next year ; I'm
going to find that widder, and I am going to work for her the bal-
ance of my days.' 'Why, what,' I said, ' can you do for the widder ?
The snows of winter have frosted your head, have taken the pith
out of your arms, in the nature of things, you must shortly die.'
' Oh,' he replied, ' the widder may die, but I ain't a gwyne to die.'
' When did you come to that conclusion, sir ?' I asked, ' that you
ain't a gwyne to die?' and he answered, 'Ever since I was 35 years
of age and I was in the Confederate army.'

"The pith of the story is that the old Veteran was right when
he said, ' I ain't a gwyne to die,' but he was wrong when he added
that ' the widder might die.' The widder couldn't die — she was the
widder of a Confederate soldier ; and the baby wasn't dead — it only
slept ; and we shall find it again— up yonder — in the bosom of the
Father, lisping praises to the God of all Salvation, because He
doesn't let His Confederate children die.

"In the name of the widder and the baby; of the Confederate
husband and father who had passed; of the weird old Veteran,
surely become Virginian to work for the widder, and Rogers; in
the name of our dear comrades, Jefferson Davis, Jeb. Stuart, and
forty-three thousand others who dwell in Oakwood and Hollywood,
but who still live, and of all your comrades of Richmond who live and
move, I give you glad greeting. Your comrades of Richmond will
'divide' with you, not indeed and altogether after the manner of
the old Veteran and Rogers, but with a division that knows no
limit, and with hearts that leap to welcome you." [Great Applause.]

When General Peyton Wise had closed his address, General
John B. Gordon was about to address the convention himself, when
loud cries for General Hampton were heard from all portions of the
hall. General Hampton beckoned to General Gordon to continue
his own address, but there Was no choice left him — he had to yield
to the general demand of his fellow-comrades, who wanted to hear
his voice once more. The enthusiasm spread to the gallaries. The

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ladies waved their handkerchiefs and fans and joined in the wild
ovation which was given to the great Confederate cavalry leader.
" Hampton, Hampton," was the cry, but General Hampton seemed
unprepared for such a great reception. He bowed once or twice,
but this did not stop the cheering. " Speak to them,'' said General
Gordon, and when the famous South Carolinian finally did rise
from his seat he became at once the centre of another ovation,
which far surpassed anything heard up to that time.
General Hampton then spoke as follows :

GENERAL HAMPTON'S ADDRESS.

"Mr. President and Comrades — I could always talk loud enough to
make you hear the word 'Charge!' [Laughter] I am glad to have the
opportunity to meet the Veterans again and to mingle with those
whom T once had the honor to command. It is proved by the sac-
rifices I have made to meet you because (and here his voice trem-
bled with emotion) in all human probability I shall never have this
honor again. But, animated by the same spirit that has actuated
you, I have come to pay my homage to that great man and true
Confederate, Jefferson Davis. [Applause.] I have come, and I
have been told that they have assigned me to the command of the
cavalry. I have come to ride again at the head of the broken ranks
of those men whom I was always so proud to see with their gleam-
ing sabres flashing in the front. I have just told your Governor
how fortunate he was. By the by, some one has said that he has
never seen a dead cavalryman. [Applause, mingled with laughter.]
I said to Governor OTerrell, ' You ought to be very happy that you
were in my command, for if you had not been in my command you
would not have been here to make that speech.' [Renewed laugh-
ter.] I was not so fortunate. He was prepared to speak, and made
a magnificent speech. I will confess that I was proud of my cav-
alryman— I did not expect to speak when I came here.''

" Go on, go on," exclaimed an old comrade, and General Hamp-
ton continued as follows :

"During my associations around here in this little neck of
woods, I was called on to fight more than to speak." [Loud cheers.]
Raising his voice higher, in response to the request from the audi-
ence, " Louder," he added :

"My fellow-citizens— my old comrades — I would be fighting
again if the flag of the Confederacy was still waving. [A voice,
' That's right.'] I want to impress upon you the last words I ever
heard our illustrious General Robert Lee say.

NO APOLOGIES.

" It was after the war, and I was in his house talking to him
about it. He said, 'I did only what my duty demanded. I could
never have taken any other course without dishonor." And, turn-
ing those noble, flashing eyes to me, he said : 'If it was all to do

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over again, I would act precisely as I have done.' [Loud ap-
plause.] And I repeat to myself what my great chieftain said — 'I
have no apologies to offer.' [Continued applause, mingled with
exclamations from the audience of ' That's right.']

" "When my State called upon me, and called all of her children
to volunteer, I entered the army as a private —

" By the by, I think the privates are entitled to more credit
than anybody else in the army. [Laughter.] We could have had
good privates without good officers, but could not have had good
officers without privates. [Renewed laughter] I always take off
my hat to the tattered jacket of a private — the man who did not
desert then and who has not deserted since. I am sorry to say that
a good many I know have deserted since.

My friends, I cannot take my seat without thanking you for tbe
cordial and grateful and unexpected honor you have paid me in the
welcome you have extended to me. Believe me tbat if there is any-
thing left to me in life it is the proud thought that I was a Confeder-
ate soldier. I want no other epitaph upon my monument than that I
was a Confederate soldier. I cannot shake hands with all of you. If
I had as many hands as Briarius I could not do that. My heart goes
out in thanks to you, and if we cannot meet again here we can across
the river under the shade of the trees. [Loud applause. J

At the conclusion of General Hampton's remarks General
Gordon arose and was received with the wildest applause, after the
cheering had subsided he delivered the following eloquent, masterly
address, which met with rapturous applause throughout;

GENERAL GORDON'S ADDRESS.

"Governor, Mr. Mayor and General Wise, Ladies and my Confederate
Comrades. — You will not wonder that I am literally overwhelmed by
the flood of emotions which this scene evokes as we look upon the
grizzled locks and furrowed brows of these stalwart men, who, thirty
years ago, were soldiers of an army which they immortalized by their
deeds, when their presence in Richmond so vividly recalls tbat
heroic era in which they were tbe heroic actors; when we remember
the position of Richmond — of Virginia — throughout whose borders
and over whose homes the tides of war swept from first to last, with
their wildest ard most destructive floods; when we recur to the
dauntless prowess of her sons, and to the fortitude and almost
martyrdom of her glorious women, who, for our sakes, stripped their
homes of the simplest comforts — when, I say, all these deathless
memories thrill us afresh, as we gather again in this long- beleaguered
and ever-beloved city, how utterly inadequate are the words of our
lips to express the emotions of our hearts !

" Let me say to these gentlemen, who, in the name of this great
people, bid us welcome, that full and cordial as is our appreciation
of this splendid reception we are in no sense surprised at its
princely munificence. We are not surprised because we know

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Virginia and Virginians. For nearly three hundred years on the
banks of this historic river there have lived and died in successive
generations the most chivalric of men and the fairest and noblest of
women. At every stage of history — from the earliest settlements,
through the colonial period and the eventful life of the Eepublic, it
has been Virginia's destiny to hold the position of primacy and
leadership in every cause to which her proud people have given
their allegiance.

PEERLESS VIRGINIA.

" Old Dominion — peerless Virginia, whose very name is the
synonym of all that is glorious in Republican history, was the
nursery of our distinctive civilization and the foster-mother of our
American freedom. It was Virginia that first established repre-
sentative popular government on this new continent. It was she
that laid the foundations, deep and abiding, of legislative liberty.
It was she that first denounced by legislative protest, the British
Stamp Act as subversive of chartered rights. It was her hand that
'rang the alarum bell ' and 'gave the signal' that aroused the
colonies. It was her two illustrious sons who wrote — the one our
' Bill of Rights,' and the other the Constitution for the Union of the
States. It was Virginia's fortune to give to both those immortal
armies, the Revolutionary and the Confederate, their illustrious
Commanders-in-Chief. With such a histoi'y, therefore, who could
doubt the character of the reception which Virginia would accord to
these battle-scared Veterans wherever and whenever convened upon
her soil ?

" Profoundly impressed by this boundless hospitality, and
keenly sensible of its every meaning, I should fall far short of my
duty to the Southern people, and to the Republic itself — if I failed
to analyze to some extent its import and purpose. I should fall
short of my duty to Virginia as our queenly hostess, and to these
Confederates as her noble guests, if I failed to note the unselfish
motives which prompt the one and the patriotic impulses which
inspire the other.

NOT THE VICTORS.

" Of all the public honors ever paid to the world's heroes, none
have been so unique in character as these heart felt tributes offered
by the Southern people. Were the recipients of these honors, the
^ex-soldiers of victorious armies, bringing to a grateful people the
trophies of their triumphs, the world would comprehend the mean-
ing of a welcome such as is here extended; but they were not the
victors in that Titanic struggle. They are the shattered remnants
of long since disbanded armies, which leave to posterity no acquisi-
tions of territory, no accretions of public wealth, or of political

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power. The legacy which these men leave to their children and
people is a record of untarnished honor, and of the most heroic,
defensive struggle in human annals; and the sole compensation for
their services and suffering is that reward which noble natures feel
in such recognition by their grateful countrymen.

" On the other hand, no popular assemblies of intelligent and
high-spirited citizens, in the world's history, were ever freer from
partisan zeal, or self-seeking spirit, or ignoble jealousies, or sinister
intent, and the muse of history will yet embalm in one of her
sweetest stories the absolutely unselfish character and exalted aims
of these Confederate gatherings. The pathos of that recital will
be deepened by its simplicity, and its beauty heightened by the
lesson which it will teach to humanity. That story will record the
simple but sublime truth that these reunions occurred year after
year, and left behind them at every stage of their proceedings the
indisputable proofs that these broad-minded men were neither
embittered by disappointments, nor dwarfed by ignoble passions,
nor warped by political ambitions, nor narrowed by sectional
prejudice, nor blinded to the interests of the common country by
selfish aims; but that, made unselfish through suffering, broadened
and ennobled by sacrifice, refined and purified in the fires of afflic-
tion, they embrace as a brother every true lover of their country
and acknowledge no superiors in devotion to the Commonwealth,
and in unfaltering support of the laws, the flag, the honor and
the freedom of the American republic.

" And now, by the memory of that white-robed army of com-
rades who have gone before us to the better land, but whose spirits
are with us to-day, and voicing the sentiments of the thousands
here assembled and of the tens of thousands who long to be with
us — in their name and as their representative, I lay at Virginia's
feet the sincerest tributes of our grateful hearts."

" Before we proceed with our business," said General Gordon,
after he had closed his address proper. " I wish to introduce the
ex-Mayor of Virginia." [Laughter.]

When about to introduce Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson General
Gordon's attention was called to the slip of his tongue. " Well,
what did I say,'' he continued, "you might have known that the city
of Richmond was meant."

Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, after being introduced to the conven-
tion, on behalf of the ladies of the Confederate Memorial Literary
Society, invited all the delegates and their ladies to attend the
reception to be given from 8 to 10 o'clock that evening to Mrs.
Jefferson Davis at the former home of the President of the Confed-
eracy.

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ON CREDENTIALS.

General Gordon then announced that the first business in
order was the appointment of the Committee on Credentials and the
clerk read the names of the following representatives of the various
States as members of that committee:

Maryland — James W. Owens.

Virginia— Col. Thomas Ellett.

North Carolina — Capt. L. S. Belden.

South Carolina — Iredel Jones.

Georgia — Col. W. L. Sheppard.

Florida— Gen. E. M. Laws.

Alabama — E. Troup Randle.

Mississippi— D. B. Waddell.

Texas— Gen. W. N. Bush.

Missouri— W. H. Woodson.

Tennessee — Capt. D. Shields.

Louisiana — Gen. W.J. Behan.

Arkansas — Majr. Wm. P. Campbell.

Indian Territory — Genl. John L. Gait.

Oklahoma — Col. Jno. O. Casler.

Kentucky — Bush W. Allin.

General W. J. Behan, of Louisiana, was selected Chairman of the
Committee.

General Gordon then called for the report of the Historical
Committee and on Southern School History, by its chairman, Gen-
eral S. D. Lee.

As General Lee arose there were calls all over the assemblage,
" Lee, Lee, Lee." But, before he commenced reading his report,
General Gordon announced that Dr. J. L. M. Curry would address
the audience immediately following the reading of the report of
the Historical Committee, upon the subject matter.

A motion was then made and seconded that the reading of the
report of the Historical Committee be postponed.

General Jackson immediately arose and said:

" Mr. Chairman— 1 would like to speak to that motion to post-
pone the reading of the report of the Historical Committee. 1
desire to say, my comrades, that at all these meetings we do not
work up to the important business which demands our attention as
comrades here. I am sure those who are visiting here, and that the
comrades themselves, will be glad to listen to so important a report
as that of the Committee on History. Nothing is of more import-
ance to us than a history which will give to our children the true
facts of what we did in the Confederate army. I therefore hope
that the comrade will withdraw the motion and let us go forward
with the reading."

The motion was withdrawn, and General Lee proceeded to
read this exhaustive and admirable report.

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During the reading of this report considerable disorder
occurred in several parts of the building, and Comrade Allen
Barksdale, of Louisiana, suggested that the floor be cleared of all
except delegates and order restored.

A motion was then made that the reading of the report of the
Historical Committee be postponed until to-morrow morning.
Moved that this motion be laid on the table ; but, before being
acted upon, the previous motion was withdrawn.

Comrade Barksdale, of Louisiana, then moved that six ser-
geants-at-arms be appointed to clear the aisles and maintain order.

General Gordon then said : "The chair desires to explain that
the report which is now being read brings before the convention
its most important business, and that is, business of impartial his-
tory. I therefore appeal, not only to your sense of justice to Gen-
eral Lee, but to your sense of justice to yourselves, to observe
silence and hear this report."

General Lee then proceeded with the reading and was fre-
quently interrupted with applause, and at its conclusion General
W. H. Jackson, of Tennessee, moved that the report of the Com-
mittee on History be received, its recommendations adopted and
the report spread upon the minutes.

Before the motion was put, a delegate offered as an amendment
to embody in it the thanks of the Association. General Jackson
stated that would be brought up later, and the amendment was
withdrawn and the motion was unanimously carried.

General W. H. Jackson also moved that the thanks and appre-
ciation of the convention be extended to the Committee on History
for its admirable report, and that the committee be continued, with
full power and authority to appoint sub-committees and take such
steps as it may deem best to bring about a completion of the work,
and to fill any vacancies occurring amongst its members, which
motion was also unanimously carried.

General Gordon then called for the report of the Historical
Committee and on Southern School History, by its Chairman
Lieutenant General S. D. Lee. As General Lee arose thei-e were
calls all over the assemblage. Lee ! Lee ! Lee ! General Lee
was then formally recognized by the chair and read the splendid
and exhaustive report of the Committee, and was interrupted by
almost continuous applause. The ueport is as follows:

Richmond, Va., June 30th, 1896.

Major General George Moorman, Adjutant General and Chief
of Staff, United Confederate Veterans:

General: — Your Committee, known as the "Historical Committee
and on Southern School History," appointed August ]3th, 1892, made
report at the reunion of the Veterans at Birmingham, Ala., April 25th
and 26th, 1894, which report was unanimously adopted, and the
Committee continued with enlarged powers to fill vacancies, and to
recommend histories, and to encourage their adoption.

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At the Fifth Annual Reunion, held at Houston, Tex., May
22nd, 23rd and 24th, 1895, your Committee submitted a second
report, closing with the following recommendation: "In con-
clusion your committee recommend the enlargement of this
committee to fifteen, so as to embrace a member from each of the
Southern States, and thus insure a larger number for the trans-
action of busiuess."

This report was unanimously adopted, including the above
recommendation.

GENERAL GORDON'S ORDER.

In conformity with this action of the Veterans, the Com-
manding General issued the following order:

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans.

New Orleans, La., August 31st, 1895.
General Orders No. 147.

The Historical Committee and on Southern School History,
created by General Orders Nos. 75 and 118, current series, from
these headquarters, to formulate a plan to secure a true and
reliable history of the late civil war, and to select proper and
truthful histories of the United States to recommend for use in
the public and private schools of the South, of which the dis-
tinguished soldier and peerless citizen, Lieutenant-General
Stephen D . Lee, is Chairman, at present consists of only seven
members, as follows:

Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee (Chairman) Starkville, Miss.
Professor W. R. Garrett, Nashville, Tenn.
Professor J. N. Stubbs, Wood's Cross-Roads, Gloucester
County, Va.

General Clement A. Evans, Atlanta, Ga.
Major-General Ellison Capers, Columbia, S. C.
Colonel H. L Bentley, Abilene, Tex.
Professor J. W. Nicholson, Baton Rouge, La.
In the eloquent and exhaustive report submitted to the
reunion at Houston, Tex., the committee recommended that their
number be increased so as to embrace one member from each
Southern State or Territory, or U. C. V. Division .

Reciting the truism from Macaulay, in their appeal to the
survivors and to the rising generation, that "a people which
takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestry will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered by remote
descendants," the committee, as constituted, performed such
splendid work in the matters entrusted to them, in their
patriotic utterances, in their truthful and fearless exposition of
Southern facts and history, and completeness of the record, that
the glory of the work performed by the Historical Committee
would alone fully justify the organization, should nothing else
be accomplished by the order.

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The general commanding hereby appoints the following
additional members to this committee, who will report to the
Chairman, Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee:

Major-General S. G. French, Winter Park, Fla.

Colonel H. A. Newman, Huntsville, Mo.

Major W. P. Campbell, Little Kock, Ark.

Colonel D. M. Wisdom, Muskogee, I. T.

Major Graham Daves, Asheville, N. C.

Major-General F. S. Ferguson, Birmingham, Ala.

General Basil Duke, Louisville, Ky.

Colonel Winfield Peters, Baltimore, Md.

Captain W. Q. Lowd, Washington, D. C.

Colonel John O. Casler, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Captain William Montgomery, Romney, W. Va.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,

General Commanding.
GEORGE MOORMAN,

Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.

(Official)

WORK OF THE COMMITTEE.

Your committee, thus enlarged to represent every Southern
State, have thought it best to direct their deliberations to the
following points:

1. To a review of former reports, with special reference to
the recommendations heretofore made.

2. To an examination of the results which have so far been
accomplished by the former recommendations.

3. To the consideration of such additional matters as
properly come within the purview of the committee.

After a careful review of the report submitted at Birming-
ham, your committee unanimously and cordially approve its
statements and its general scope and purport. We find that it
is patriotic and liberal in tone, correctly reflecting the generous
and honorable sentiments of the Confederate Veterans. At the
same time it firmly and strongly sets forth the injustice which
has been done the South by partisan historians, who have
perverted many historical facts and ignored others. It also
points out the culpable indifference of the South in permitting
the facts of history to be perverted or ignored. It urges upon
all Veterans, upon all the people of the Southern States, and
upon all just minded men, North or South, to rise above partisan
spirit, and to unite in the effort to preserve the truth of history,
and to hand down to posterity a true record of the Civil War.

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The report goes deeper, and comments on the neglect of
Southern history from the Colonial times to the present. It
then proposes a remedy. This remedy is set forth in the
recommendations of the report, preceded by an explanatory dis-
cussion. Your committee renew these recommendations, and
can find no stronger way to urge them than by quoting the
language of the previous reports as follows:

A GENERAL HISTORY.

"The order of the Association creating this Committee
requires us 'to formulate a plan for securing a true and reliable
history of the late Civil War.' In attempting to formulate this
plan, the committee has been led to examine the whole field of
history. We find, as has been heretofore set forth in this report,
that justice to the South requires that the entire field of history
he explored, and its neglected facts be faithfully gathered and
portrayed. We need a 'Renaissance' of history throughout the
South. We have looked around for the best agency to effect
this object.

"What will be the most efficient agency? It must be a
universal agency, a continuing agency, an influential agency. It
must be an agency that can stimulate historical research; create
historical taste; produce not only one work, but many works;
employ not only one mind, but many minds; make the work
assume various shapes, not only in the form of standard histories
and school histories, but also State histories, Magazine articles,
historical essays, popular sketches, local history, etc. It is
unfortunately true that our people have neglected history.
They have not only neglected to write, but they have neglected
to read what is written. Historical taste andhistorical literature
must assume various phases. There is a deplorable lack of
knowledge of State history and of local history. Here is a mine
rich in unexplored history and poetry. We need workers in the
field. Very few, even of our educated citizens, have devoted
much attention to the histories of their respective States. This
history, when developed, will touch the popular heart. No one
mind can explore this wide field, and no one work can cover the
ground . We need a separate history for each State.

Besides, we do not wish to limit our work to the present
time. Can we not kindle a flame which will not burn out with
the life of our generation? There is but one agency which can
compass all these purposes, and can add to them another of
great value — that agency is our leading Southern Universities.
They have the means, the prestige, the appliances, the undoing
life. They could put work into immediate operation, and con-
tinue it forever. We, therefore, suggest that the Association
recommend the following plan: That every university in the
South establish a chair of American history; that this chair be

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not overloaded with additional work, but its occupant be allowed
leisure, and be provided with appliances for historical investiga-
tion and authorship; that the occupant of this chair be selected
with special reference to his fitness for historical authorship,
and also for inspiring students with a spirit of original historical
investigation; that the Chair of American History include a
comprehensive course, embracing not only the history of the
United States, but also the history of the entire American conti-
nent, which should be taught in a manner suited to matured
minds, leading them to original investigation. The inauguration
of such a course in our Southern Universities, leading to a full
comprehension of the history, geography and relations of the
various members of the American continent, would give the
coming generation of Southern youth a broad knowledge, which
would bring to the South a benefit which need not be enlarged
on.

TO HAVE HISTORY TAUGHT.

We, therefore, recommend and urge:

1. That the Association recommend to the Legislatures of
the several Southern States to provide in the public school
course for teaching the history of the native State one year, and
also for teachiug the history of the United States one year, and
for the establishment and support of a chair of American history
in the State University, or in some suitable State Institution;
and also for encouraging the preparation of State school
histories.

2. That the Association recommend that all private schools
and academies make provision for teaching the history of the
native State one year, and the History of the United States one
year.

3. That the Association appoint suitable committees to
memoralize the several Legislatures and authorities of universi-
ties and schools, and to request the co-operation of State
historical societies, State literary societies, the press, etc.

SCHOOL HISTORIES.

1. The importance of placing and teaching impartial and
accurate histories of the United States in all our schools cannot
be overestimated nor exaggerated. With this end in view, at
the former meeting of this committee, the following resolution
was adopted:

"To select such of existing school histories as are truthful
and just in their statements in reference to the causes and facts
of the late war, and recommend the same for use in all our
schools in order of preference, if possible, and practical."

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2. In pursuance of this resolution your committee has
grouped all existing histories under three heads: (1.) Those
written and published in the North pronouncedly unfair to the
South, her institutions, and her part in history. (2.) Those
written and published in the North apparently fair in their
treatment of Southern questions. (3.) Those written and
published in the South.

GROUP 1.

These works were for the most part issued in the first ten or
fifteen years following the close of the late war, and reflect in
full the sentiment then generally prevailing over the northern
section of our country. Dictated by prejudice and prompted by
the evil passions that time had not then softened, they need
not be considered by the committee.

GROUP 2.— NORTHERN HISTORIES APPARENTLY FAIR.

A number of the books belonging to Group 1 have been
either (a) revised and emasculated in their effort to curry favor
with the text-book patrons of both sections, or (b) separate
editions made for Northern and Southern schools. To these
have been added a number of works published in recent years,
which, avoiding any positive statement derogatory to the South,
studiously suppress every fact of American History upon which
the justice of the Southern cause and purity of motive of
Southern political leaders are based, (c) Histories written and
published at the North, in which an honest effort is made to do
justice to the South. While some of these histories contain
many excellent features, they ignore many facts which the
South, as a section, takes a patriotic pride in, and they fail to
present the distinctive features of Southern civilization with
force and fidelity, or to give due prominence to the work done
by the South as a factor in the Union. We are gratified to note
that several of these histories have been revised so as to exclude
objectionable expressions, and to include facts of history
favorable to the South, which have heretofore been ignored, and
we hope that the time is not far distant when waiters of history
from either section will take pride and pleasure in presenting
with cordiality and enthusiasm the distinctive work of each
section as a factor of our common country.

We believe that the records of the nation contain many
neglected facts of history, which, when clearly presented, will not
only justify the motives and purposes of the South as a section,
but will tend to promote kindly feeling between the sections and
to instill sentiments of patriotism and mutual respect. For such
reasons we are unwilling that facts of history of which the
South has just right to be proud shall be omitted in the instruc-
tion of our children.

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GROUP 3.— SOUTHERN HISTORIES.

This group constitutes a small number of published works,
which have been examined with reference to the following
points:

1. Is the history value impaired by inaccuracy, or by an
overdrawn, exaggerated narrative of events, in which self-
glorification takes the place of calm statement of the whole
truth, which alone is necessary to support the position of the
South in national affairs?

2. Do they compare in typographical appearance with
other attractive histories?

3. Are they practical teaching text-books?

4. In illustrations do they give equal prominence to events
and individuals of the South and to those of the North?

5. In the treatment of the American Revolution do they do
full justice to the men oi the South in the field and forum, and
do they make the point that the war was for independence and
self-government, and that the Southern people were animated by
these principles in the last war?

6. Are the questions of sovereignty and slavery dispassion-
ately treated?

7. Do they touch fully the importance, and in most cases
predominant part taken by Southern men in the Revolution; in
the constitutional convention; in shaping the affairs of the
government; in extending the domain of the United States to
our present limits; in maintaining our national honor and
credit abroad, and in properly presenting the characteristics of
Southern life and civilization?

8. Do they denominate the last war a "rebellion," instead
of a conflict between the States?

9. In giving a truthful narration of the events of the Civil
War, do they exhibit the unparalleled patriotism manifested by
the Southern people in accepting its results, and the courage and
perseverence displayed by them in building up their shattered
homes and ruined estates?

BOOKS THAT ARE ENDORSED.

In the opinion of this committee, these are some of the most
important features necessary to an accurate and impartial
history of the United States. We are gratified to find that
Southern people are beginning to awaken to the importance of
writing their own history; that a few Southern authors have
prepared works for use in the schools, which more or less
embody the features above enumerated, viz.:

"Hansell's Histories," written by Professor H. E. Chambers,
of Louisiana.

"History of the American People," written by J. H. Shinn,
of Arkansas.

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"History of tbe United States," mitten by A. H. Stephens,
of Georgia.

"History of the United States," written by George F.
Holmes, of Virginia.

"History of the United States," written by R. R. Harrison,
of Virginia.

"History of the United States." written by Blackburn &
McDonald, of Maryland.

"Grammar School History of the United States," written by
L. A. Field, of Georgia.

"History of the United States," written by J. T. Derry, of
Georgia.

Your committee cordially commend the zeal of the above
authors for the work already undertaken and done in the cause
for which this committee was created, induced, as we believe, by
the pure incentive of presenting truthful history, and doing
justice to the South, and we commend their books as being
suitable for use in our schools.

We also recommend the following as suitable to be used as
a supplementary reader in our schools:

"The Civil War," by Mrs. Ann E. Snyder, of Tennessee.

In conclusion, your committee is gratified to know that
other school histories are in preparation by Southern authors,
which give promise of great excellence, and indicate that the
best thought of the country is being enlisted in this important
cause; and we recommend that the Association provide the
proper organization for carrying into effect the recommendations
of this Committee.

REPORT MADE AT HOUSTON.

The second report, msde at Houston, Tex., May 22, 23 and
24. 1895, reiterates the same general recommendations and adds
others. We quote the language as follows:

Tour Committee recommend a continuance of the same
policy as marked out in our first report, and a more complete
organization of sub-committees for each State to press active
work. The policy should be maintained, which is now beginning
to bear fruit, that policy being to begin at the foundation by
stimulating public sentiment to bring to the work of formulating
history many minds, to reach the educational institutions, and
the youth of the country through our Southern Universities.
This is a deeper, surer and more permanent mode of vindicating
the South, than relying upon the employment of one or more
writers to act as special attorneys to plead the cause at the bar
of history. Your Committee, therefore, renew and reiterate
their recommendations made in the first report at Birmingham.

The report then makes the following additional recommen-
dations, which your Committee herewith quote and renew:

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"Your Committee also recommend that each and every
camp in this Orgauization make it an immediate duty to have
prepared before all the members 'cross over the river,' a correct
roll of every company raised in every county, giving names on
original roll; those killed in battle, and in what battle, those
wounded, those who died from wounds and diseases, and those
who got through the war; that State organizations urge this
duty on their respective Legislatures through efficient com-
mittees to lay the recommendations of this Committee before
their respective State Legislatures, and ask appropriations to
carry them into effect.

"Your Committee with pleasure recommend the Confederate
Veteran, published by Comrade S. A. Cunningham, at Nashville,
Tenn., which has virtually become the organ of this great Asso-
ciation. It is doing valuable work in cleaiing up hidden facts of
history connected with the great struggle. It would be a
fortunate event if a larger subscription list would enable its
publishers to enlarge its pages and make it the medium of more
extended publications connected with the war and the causes
leading to the war.

AVOID UNKIND PUBLICATIONS.

"We cannot too strongly urge upon our people the great
importance of avoiding, as far as possible, the purchasing and
disseminating of books and literature which are unkind and
unfair to the South, which belittle our achievements, impugn our
motives, and malign the characters of our illustrious leaders.
An example of this kind of literature is the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, which, while a work of exceptional merit in many
particulars, abounds in such a distortion of historical facts in
reference to the South as could have emanated only from ignor-
ance or malignity. A yet more flagrant example of this kind is
a reprint in part of that encyclopaedia, known as the R. S. Peale
reprint, now being advertised in Southern newspapers.

"It is with much pleasure that your Committee can report
the growing interest in having the history of the South, properly,
truthfully and impartially written. We believe there are South-
ern authors now preparing histories; and as }rour committee was
directed and empowered to add to the list of histories for our
Southern schools, your Committee now recommends that the
History of the United States by Mrs. Susan P. Lee, of Lexing-
ton, Va., be added to said lists, as filling the requirements of
histories that should be used in our schools. It has been
brought to the attention of your Committee that the Grand
Camp of Virginia has asked that the United Confederate Veterans'
Association take steps in having a "history " of the Confederate
War, its causes, character and consequences published. Now,
your Committee endorse the idea that such a history should be

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written, and invite any party who desires to undertake the task,
to do so, and let each history, as it is written, stand or fall on its
own merit. Your Committee find it quite impossible to examine
manuscripts and pass on the merits or de-merits of any particu-
lar author, but, as in the past, as to school histories, throw open
the field to authors of the history of the Confederate War, its
causes, character and consequences.

DR. CURRY'S EXCELLENT BOOK.

"We would call especial attention to a recent work of Dr. J.
L. M. Curry, entitled "The South, Constitution and the Result-
ing Union." It is one of the best books that has been written or
published since the war. It is catholic, broad and patriotic, and
at the same time, clear, terse and condensed, presenting only
those salient points of American History with which every
citizen of this great republic should be familiar. Without doing
injustice to any section of the country, it does immortal honor to
the genius of our soldiery and the patriotism of our people, and
we recommend its general use in the families and Schools of the
South."

After reviewing the two reports, and especially considering
the recommendations above recited, your Committee turned
their attention to an examination of the results that have been
accomplished. We are gratified to find that important public
movements have followed closely upon these recommendations,
and are apparently connected with them. While we cannot
designate all of them as results of your Committee's suggestions,
yet vye may safely say that they are manifestations of the same
convictions of thought and the same sentiments which found ex-
pression in the recommendations of your Committee, and in the
resolutions of this Association.

CHAIR OF HISTORY ESTABLISHED.

1. The resolution of this Association, recommending to the
Legislatures of the several Southern States to establish in one of
the State colleges or universities the Chair of American History,
met prompt response from the State of Tennessee. The Ten-
nessee Division of the United Confederate Veterans; the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution; the Historical Society and the
two representative educational organizations; the State Teachers'
Association and the Public School Officers' Association at once
took the matter in hand. Each of these Organizations passed
resolutions of endorsement, and appointed committees to peti-
tion the Legislature. Various local organizations co-operated
with the movement; among them, the several Confederate
Camps and the County Teachers' Associations. One of the first
bhls introduced into the Legislature was a bill to create the
Chair of American History. The joint Committee of Education

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of the Legislature made an able report, strongly urging the
establishment of the Chair, and closing with the following
recommendation :

"That an additional appropriation of $5000 per annum be
appropriated to the Peabody Normal College, which shall be
used as follows: $2000 for the general expenses of the college,
and $3000 for the support of the Chair of American History, to
be applied to the salary of the occupant of the chair, and to the
expenses or original investigation, the accumulation and care of
historical material, the purchase of manuscripts and books; said
chair to be devoted to the history of the United States and of
the American Continent, and to give especial attention to the
history of Tennessee."

The Legislature made enactments in accordance with this
recommendation, and the chair was established at the Peabody
Normal College, which is the literary department of the Univer-
sity of Nashville. The first Chair of American History in any
Southern State was thus established in the first chartered insti-
tution of learning west of the Alleghany Mountains.

This chair was organized June, 1895, to be devoted to the
following objects:

"1. The instruction of students in the history of Tennessee,
in the history of the United States, and in the general history of
American nations."

"2. To collecting and preserving historical records and
material for history."

"3. To pursuing original historical investigations."

'4. To historical publications."

In connection with this chair, the American Historical
Magazine is issued as a quarterly publication by the college,
wrhich announces its objects as follows:

"This Magazine will serve as a medium for disseminating the
information obtaiued through the researches which have been
instituted by the Chair of American History, and which will be
directed to reviving neglected facts of history, to correcting
misrepresentations of historical writers, and to presenting
historical facts hitherto unpublished. While the work of this
chair will extend to the entire field of the United States history,
and to the history of the various nations of America, especial
attention will be devoted to the rich mine of Tennessee history.''

GOOD EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW.

Your committee take pleasure in making public acknowl-
edgment of this prompt response to the recommendations of
this Association, and urge upon the Legislature of every South-
ern State to follow the laudable example. We note with
pleasure that the matter is now being agitated in other States.

If all our Southern Universities would rise to the true con-
ception of the grandeur of American, history in the earlier

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periods producing heroes who acted in the obscurity of the wil-
derness parts fit to adorn the theatre of the world; in its later
developments transcending in progress, achievement and insti-
tutions the proudest records of ancient or modern times, they
would unite to develop this valuable field of education, culture
and research. They would direct the ambition of our Southern
youth to explore the mines of historic wealth, which now lie hid-
den in legends in scattered records, in unpublished manuscripts,
and in the memories of a few old pioneers, who still linger amid
the institutions they have helped to create . They would train
growing intellects to the philosophic study of American institu-
tions and their wonderful development. The great work of the
South as a factor in building the United States, and in develop-
ing its political and social institutions would be traced by
sympathetic pens. Southern indifference to history would be
cured, and the South would assume in the writing of American
history the place which it has always borne in the making of
American history.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEACHING.

II. Your committee note with much pleasure the recent
improvement in teaching American History in our schools. Not
only in the South, but all over the United States, the relations
between the sections seem to be better understood, and are pre-
sented by teacher and text-book in a more patriotic and philo-
sophic spirit. We believe that the time is approaching when a
text-book which, in a partisan spirit, instills sentiments of
hostility, or does injustice to any section, will be excluded from
the schools of every section of the United States; and the lesson
will be taught by the teacher and learned by the pupils that "the
patriot who loves his country must be just to all its sections," and
this lesson will be the echo of public sentiment.

Meanwhile, since the effort has been made to foist upon
Southern schools text-books partisan in spirit, or derogatory of
the South, or ignoring those facts of which the South has a just
right to be proud, we must do our duty in warning our people
to exclude them from our schools. We go further, and denounce
them as unfit for the schools of any section of the United States.

III. A gratifying sign of the growth of historical research
and historical taste in the South is the development of State
history. Several excellent State histories have recently been
published for the use of the general reader.

Many of the States have introduced into the curriculum of
their schools the subject ol State history, as one of the regular
branches of study. In several of the States two or more State
histories have been prepared for the use of the schools. This
work of our educators, together with the praiseworthy, but
somewhat spasmodic, efforts of State historical societies is doing
much to stimulate historical taste and research.

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CONFEDERATE WAR HISTORIES.

IV. Passing from the consideration of books intended for
use in schools and colleges, and covering the whole period of
United States History, your committee came to an examination
of the recommendation inviting competent authors to prepare
"Histories of the Confederate War. Its causes, character and
consequences." We find that this recommendation, also, is
meeting with response.

In addition to the able work of Hon. J. L. M. Curry, which
was published soon after your committee's first report, and to
which allusion was made in the second report, other works are in
preparation.

Among these is an extensive work, which is now in course of
preparation, called "Confederate Military History," written
exclusively by Southern men, who were actual participators in
our struggle for separate government. It is proposed to issue
the publication in twelve or more_volumes, in library form, con-
taining many general chapters on main Confederate questions,
as well as the general history of the Confederate era; but also
embracing the separate military history of each of the Southern
States during the war, including the border States. The library
is designed to be a trustworthy record of events, as well as a
strong presentation of the Southern principles upon which
secession was based and coercion resisted. The character and
ability of the writers are a guarantee that the contents will be
satisfactory, and in addition thereto the manuscripts of the
chapters will pass through the hands of the selected editor,
General Clement A. Evans, and will be also submitted to mem-
bers of the Historical Committee before reaching the printers.
It is a publication which the Historical Committee has long
wished might be undertaken.

MR. ROUSS'S HANDSOME OFFER.

V. It is with particular pleasure that your committee call
attention to a noble instance of co-operation with the plans and
purposes of this Association. Simultaneously with the second
report of your committee, made at Houston, Tex., Comrade
Charles Broadway Rouss, a gallant Confederate soldier of the
Army of Northern Virginia, and now a merchant prince of New
York, tendered to the United Confederate Veterans a generous
donation for the purpose of establishing the Confederate Mem-
orial Association. The gratitude with which his noble act
inspires every Confederate soldier is increased by the delicacy
with which he avoided the ostentation of having the Memorial
Association to bear the appearance of resting solely on his own
munificence. He wished that it should be founded upon the
joint efforts of all his comrades, and that all should feel in it the
pride of ownership.

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Comrade Eouss bas looked wisely into the future, and has
seen that our Association must end before many years by the
successive passing away of its members. He has provided the
means for establishing an organization to take our place; but he
has left it to bis comrades to give the movement, form and shape;
so that the Confederate Memorial Association will come into
perpetual life as the offspring of this Association.

Our children, and our children's children, trained by us to
sentiments of patriotism, will grow up with love and admiration
for the institutions of the United States— those munificent
institutions to which their fathers have contributed so much.
Partakers of the prosperity which the energy and wisdom of
their ancestors is bringing to the South, they may come to ask,
"Why did our fathers rebel against this glorious government?"
And they may listen to the perversions of partisan historians.
There should be, at least, one monument of the Confederacy
left to bear witness. That monument should contain the testi-
mony, and bear it down through all time . That monument
should be guarded by a corporation which will never die, and
be sustained by a perpetual fund.

To found this Confederate Memorial Association, to erect
this Battle Abbey, and to provide it with an endownment fund,
the annual interest of which will be sufficient to keep it in
repair, and to sustain the expenses of a perpetual exhibit, Com-
rade Rouss offered his generous donation. For this purpose the
committee appointed by this Association has canvassed the
Southern States in order to offer to every Southern sympathizer
the opportunity to contribute to this patriotic enterprise.

Your committee look forward with deep interest to its com-
pletion, and commend it to the Association as the most impor-
tant subject which will claim their attention.

A CHAIR IN EACH STATE.

The results above enumerated, some of which were brought
about by the recommendations of your committee, and all of
which tend to co-operate with our efforts, encourage us to offer
the following additional recommendations:

I. We recommend that this Association take steps to urge
upon the several Legislatures, universities and colleges of the
Southern States to adopt the policy suggested in the two
previous reports of this committee relative to establishing a
chair of American history in, at least, one university or college in
each State.

To this end, we recommend that this Association make
proper orders for appointing in each State or division, a suitable
committee, to present the matter to their respective Legislatures,
universities and colleges, and invite the co-operation of the re-
spective historical, educational and literary societies, and to
invoke the aid of the press, and of every Confederate camp or
organization.

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ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF BOOKS.

II. Since the last annual reunion the following school
histories of the United States have been submitted to your com-
mittee for examination, viz.; School History of the United
States, written by J. William Jones, D. D., of Virginia.

Brief History of the United States, written by Mrs. Susan
Pendleton Lee, of Virginia.

Our Country, a History of the United States, written by
Oscar H. Cooper and others, of Texas.

Having carefully examined these books, we find that they
conform to the requirements set forth in the former reports, and
we recommend that they be added to the list of Southern
authors, whose works are suited for use in the schools.

The attention of your committee has been drawn to the fact
that the order in which the several text-books were enumerated
in the list of Southern authors in previous reports has been con-
strued to indicate that your committee meant to grade the
merits of the several text-books in accordance with the order of
enumeration. We deem it improper for this committee to
express or indicate any preference between the several works, but
simply to furnish a list of histories of the United States written
by southern authors, which are suitable for use in the schools.
To avoid any misconstruction in future, your committee give
below the entire list, arranged alphabetically in accordance with
the names of the authors:

Blackburn & McDonald, Maryland — History of the United
States.

Chambers, H. E., Louisiana — Hausell's Histories.

Cooper, Oscar H. and others, Texas — Our Country.

Derry, J. T. Georgia — History of the United States.

Field, L. A., Georgia — Grammar School History of United
States.

Holmes, George F., Virginia— History of the United States.

Howison, R. R., Virginia — History of the United States.

Jones, J. William, Virginia — School History of the United
States.

Jones, J. William, Virginia — Brief History of the United
States.

Lee, Mrs. Susan P., Virginia — -History of the United States.

Shinn, Josiah H, Arkansas — History of the American
People.

Stephens, A. H., Georgia — History of the United States.

For Supplementary Reading: Snyder, Mrs. Ann E, Ten-
nessee— The Civil War.

The above list is as complete as your committee have been
able to make it. Possibly there may be other works of merit
which have not been brought to our attention.

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Believing that the cause of truthful history is promoted by
-having the subject viewed from many standpoints, and con-
sidered by many minds, your committee renew the former
invitations to competent authors to prepare additional text-books
for the use of the schools.

WILL CO-OPERATE.

III. We recommend that this Association shall take the
proper steps to co-operate with the Confederate Memorial
Association, when the same shall be organized, for collecting
historical material, and for its preservation and publication.

To this end we recommend that each State or division be
organized by the appointment of division and camp historians,
and that the Confederate Memorial Association, when the same
shall have been formed, establish the office of historian, and
charge the historian with the duty of collecting, collating,
exhibiting and publishing such historical information relating to
the Southern States, or to the war between the States, as may be
valuable to the general reader, or useful as material for future
writers of history. And we recommend that the several division
and camp historians of the United Confederate Veteran Associa-
tion shall co-operate with the historian of the Memorial Associa-
tion by collecting and transmitting to the said historian for
preservation and exhibit or publication, valuable historical
material and relics.

IV. We recommend all our comrades everywhere to
co-operate in a general movement for the development of South-
ern history and Southern literature. We invoke the people to
give popular support to the establishment and maintenance of
the agencies for promoting authorship.

We recommend the establishment of historical and literary
societies, historical and literary publications and public libraries.
We suggest that our comrades contribute to the war literature
by publishing articles descriptive of the incidents in which they
participated. We invite competent authors to prepare works for
the schools and for the general reader based on Southern litera-
ture. The speeches and writings of Southern men from Jeffer-
son and Patrick Henry to the orators and writers of the present
day, will furnish our boys with material for declamation and
recitation inferior to no literature of the world.

We recommend the establishment of publishing companies,
and all other appliances that will render publications cheaper
and more convenient.

V. Your committee have thought it proper to suggest a
list of books which may be useful for public or private libraries
in furnishing information on topics connected with the civil war.
While not undertaking to endorse everything contained in these
books, or to express an opinion on controverted points which
some of them discuss, we should be glad to see them upon the
shelves of public and private libraries where they can be

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accessible to our people. We attach a list of these books as an
appendix to this report. It will be seen that prominently
among the books which we recommend as worthy of reference is
the great publication by the Government of the United States of
all official papers relating to the war, the same being published
with a noble fairness, presenting the reports and dispatches of
Confederate officers in connection with those of the United
States Army, and accompaning the volumes with accurate maps
and drawings.

THE MODEL AND THE MOTTO.

VI. Participating in the enthusiastic sentiment which
pervades the South, demanding that Southern pens shall vindi-
cate Southern history and recognizing the growing sentiment
throughout the United States, demanding a just and truthful
record, your committee believe that they can see in the signs of
the times a coming corps of vigorous Southern historians. We
expect from them eloquence, candor, patriotism, philosophy,
wisdom. Trusting into their hands the vindication of the South
and of the Confederate soldier, we commend to them a model
and a motto.

The model is, The Confederate Soldier. The motto is, Let
him live in History, as he was in War, and as he is in Peace.

After the Confederate soldier had fought the war to the end,
and had displayed fidelity, courage and skill, which have never
been surpassed, he yielded when further resistance would have
been folly and crime. When admiration for his valor and confi-
dence in his honor led his antagonists to offer honorable terms,
he accepted them in the same magnanimous spirit in which they
were offered. He surrendered as the brave surrender. His
surrender meant peace and conciliation. He obeyed the order to
"ground arms/' His tears and his musket fell together to the
ground. The war was over.

He had fought with honor; he surrendered with honor, and
he has abided the issue with honor. He returned to the Union
as an equal, and he has remained in the Union as a friend, with
no humble apologies, no unmanly servility, no petty spirit, no
sullen treachery; he is a cheerful, frank citizen of the United
States, accepting the present, trusting the future, and proud of
the past.

He has built the New South— for there is a new New South.
But this New South is the legitimate offspring of the Old South.
It is not a galvanized corpse worked into life by batteries
without. It is a healthy expansion of forces from within. The
New South is the work of the Confederate soldier, as the Old
South was the work of his father. The Confederate soldier
loves both.

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The New South, in material development, will rise above the
Old South. We shall have a denser population, larger cities,
more stately buildings, more ample revenues, more widely
diffused intelligence, richer men, wealthier corporations; but we
shall never have a higher social order, nobler sentiments,
purer aspirations, grander men, or more devoted or truer
women than the men and the women of the Old South.

The Confederate soldier feels this; and he laments the Old
South as a parent that has passed away. He turns to the New
South as to his child, and with affectionate solicitude he devotes
his life to rear and protect it.

He knows the South is a part of the United States. He
sees that its best interests demand peace and conciliation. In
the language of the eloquent Georgian, "He is in the house of
his fathers, and he has come to stay." He is a patriot by nature;
he has never ceased to be a patriot

THE STARS IN THE FLAG.

He must love some country, and he has no other country to
love. He sees the Stars and Stripes float over the land. He
gazes upon that flag, and counts its stars. Who placed them
there? He traces the thirteen Stars that represent the original
States, and all the glorious history of the Revolution passes
before his mind. He looks at the brilliant constellation that
answers to the States formed from western lands ceded by
Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. Who placed those stars in
that firmament? His fathers. What venerated image comes
before him when he gazes on that constellation which answers to
the States formed out of the province of Louisiana? Thomas
Jefferson. The stars that answer to the States formed from
Florida and Oregon recall James Monroe. The lone Star of
Texas and the stars which glitter for golden California and the
Mexican cessions bring up the memories of John Tyler and
James K. Polk. While these shining witnesses bear their silent
testimony, the territorial growth of the United States expands
before his vision, and the Confederate soldier honors the flag
which cannot wave without testifying to this great work of the
South, while it proclaims alike the glory of the American Union.

He learned to love that flag when he was a boy. He loved
it even when he fought it. Every impulse of his generous
nature prompts him to love Dixie and the Star Spangled
Banner.

The Confederate soldier is a patriot of the highest type.
He was a soldier because he was a patriot. He is a peaceful
citizen, because he is a patriot. He has forgiven the war
with its attendant injustice of invasion and reconstruction.
He has risen above the humiliation of surrender. From the
hero of war he has grown to be the hero of peace. In this char-
acter he deserved to be painted by history.

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MODEL FOR THE HISTORIAN.

Then let the Confederate historian be like his model, the
Confederate soldier. He must be patricic, for be is represent-
ing the cause of patriots. He must be candid, for a partisan
work will not live in history, and will fai to convince the world.
He must be accurate, for even slight inaccuracies would be
detected, and would cast suspicion on his work. He must be
patient in research, for much of his material is scattered and
difficult of access, and he must make no assertion that is not
sustained by evidence.

He must be philosophical; calm and logical treatment is
essential to the discussion of the social, economic and political
problems of the great confederated republic, the conflict of
whose contrifugal and centripetal forces has baffled the philo-
sophy of the Old World. He must be enthusiastic, but his
enthusiasm must be restrained by judgment; this enthusiasm
must be both sectional and national, and this judgment must be
both minute and comprehensive. He must be bold and fearless,
but always liberal. He must be eloquent, for he is dealing with
a lofty theme — the most gigantic internal struggle which history
records — the grandest contribution which the nineteenth century
has made to human greatness. America's proudest title to
martial glory. He is painting for future ages the picture of that
eventful epoch, whose memories are the joint heritage of all
Americans, and which is destined to occupy in American history
the pathetic place which the war of the roses now occupies in the
annals of England and in the hearts of Englishmen.

In the foreground of this historic picture your committee
would place a noble pile or Parian marble, pure and chaste,
strong and enduring, on whose high summit there shall kneel
the figure oi the Southern woman, the guardian angel of the
Confederacy, with eves turned to Heaven, and sacred hands ex-
tended in unceasing blessings on the heads and hearts of the
fathers, husbands, brothers and sons of our Southland.
Respectfully submitted,

STEPHEN D. LEE, Chairman.

W. R. GARRETT,

J. N. STUBBS,

CLEMENT A. EVANS,

ELLISON CAPERS,

S. G. FRENCH,

H. A. NEWMAN,

W. P. CAMPBELL,

F. S. FERGUSON,

WLNFIELD PETERS,

J. O. CASLER,

W. Q. LOWD.

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List of Books Recommended by the Historical Committee
for use in the Public Schools in the South.

1. Southern Historical Society Papers, in 23 volumes — 14
volumes by J. William Jones, and 9 volumes by R. A. Brock.
Address, R. A. Brock, Richmond, Va.

2. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate States of America,
by President Jefferson Davis. Published by D. Appleton & Co.

3. Brief History of the Confederate States, by Jefferson
Davis. .

4. The War between the States, by Vice-President A. H.
Stephens.

5. The Official War Records, with accompanying maps, as
published by the United States Government.

6. Is Davis a Traitor? By Dr. A. T. Bledsoe.

7. The Republic of Republics, by B. J. Sage.

8. The History of the Confederate States, by Professor W.
T. Derry. Published by B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond Va.

9. Southern States of the American Union, by Hon. J. L.
M. Curry. Published by B. F Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va.

10. A Defence of Virginia and the South, by Rev. R. L.
Dabney.

11. Military Annals of Tennessee, by J. Berrien Lindsley.
Published at Nashville, Tenn.

12. Bulloch's Secret Service of the Confederate States in
Europe. Published by G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York.

13. Admiral Semmes's Service Afloat and Ashore.

14. Sinclair's History of the Alabama. Published by Lip-
pincott & Co., New York.

15. Captain Wilkinson's Blockade Running.

16. Schaff's History of the Confederate States Navy.

17. Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Letters of R.
E. Lee, by Dr. J. William Jones. Published by D. Appleton &
Co.

18. Four Years With Lee, by Colonel Walter H. Taylor.
Published by D. Appleton & Co.

19. Memoir of General R. E. Lee, by General Fitz. Lee.
Published by D. Appleton & Co.

20. Memoirs of General R. E. Lee, by General A. L. Long.

21. Life of General R. E. Lee, by John Esten Cooke.

22. Life of R. E. Lee, by J. D. McCabe.

23. Child's Life of R. E. Lee, by Mrs. Williamson. Pub-
lished by Baughman Brothers, Richmond Va.

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24. Popular Life of General R. E. Lee, by Miss Emily V.
Mason.

25. Life of Stonewall Jackson, by Dr. R. L. Dabney.

26. Memoir of Stonewall Jackson, by his wife.

27. Memoir of Jefferson Davis, by his wife.

28. Jefferson Davis; Memorial Volume, by Dr. J. William
Jones. B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va.

29. Memoir of General William Pendleton, by Mrs. Susan
Pendleton Lee.

30. Memoir of Commodore Mathew F. Maury, by Mrs.
Corbin.

31. Memoir of Commodore Tatnall.

32. Life and Letters of the Tylers, by Professor L. G.
Tyler.

33. Christ in the Camp; or, Religion in Lee's Army, by
Dr. J. William Jones. B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va.

34. Army of Northern Virginia; Memorial Volume, by Dr.
J. William Jones. J. W. Randolph, Richmond, Va.

35. Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862, by Colonel William
Allan. Lippincott & Co.

36. The Confederate Capital and Hood's Texas Brigade, by
Mrs. A. V. Winkler, Corsicana, Tex.

37. The A.rmy of Northern Virginia in the Virginia Cam-
paign of 1862, by Colonel William Allan. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., Boston.

38. The Campaign and Battle of Chancellorsville, by Allan
& Hotchkiss. Van Nostrand & Co., New York

39. Biography of Stonewall Jackson, by John Esten Cooke.
D. Appleton & Co.,

40. Memoirs of General J. E. B. Stuart, by Major H. B.
McClellan.

41. Memoirs of General Joseph E. Johnson, by R. W.
Hughes, Jr. D. Appleton & Co., New York.

42. Narrative of His Military Operations, by General
Joseph E. Johnston. D. Appleton & Co.

43. History of Morgan's Cavalry, by General Basil W.
Duke.

44. History of Forrest's Cavalry, by General T. J. Jordan .

45. Memoir of General Leonidas Polk, by Dr. W. M. Polk.

46. Memoirs of General G. T. Beauregard, by Judge
Alfred Roman. Harper & Brothers, New York.

47. Advance and Retreat, by General John B. Hood.

48. From Manassas to Appomattox, by General James
Longstreet. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

49. Memoir of General Joseph E . Johnston, by General B.
T. Johnson. R. H. Woodward & Co., Baltimore, Md.

50. Defence of Fort Sumter and Charleston Harbor, by
Major John Johnson, engineer officer of Fort Sumter.

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51. Memoir of General Albert Sidney Johnston, by Colonel
William Preston Johnston. D. Appleton & Co.

52. A Confederate view of the Treatment of Prisoners, by
Dr. J. William Jones. Southern Historical Society, Kichmond,
Va.

53. The Southern Side of the Prison Question, by Dr. R.
E. Stevenson, Surgeon at Andersonviile.

54. United States Bands at Fort Delaware, by Rev. Dr. I.
W. K. Handy.

55. Memoirs of the Last Year of the War, by General J. A.
Early.

56. Recollections of a Virginian, by General D. H. Maury.

57. Detailed Mention of Soldier Life, by Private Carlton
McCarthy, Richmond, Va.

58. Women; or, Chronicles of the War, by Mrs. Mary
Tucker McGill.

59. University of Virginia Memorial Volume, by Dr. John
A. Johnson.

60. The Fallen Alumni of the Virginia Military Institute,
by Rev. C. W. Walker, D. D.

61. Diary of a Refugee, by Mrs. McGuire.

62. Richmond During the War, by Miss Sallie A. Brock.

63. Wearing the Gray, by John Esten Cooke.

64. Hammer and Rapier, by John Esten Cooke.

65. Hilt to Hilt, by John Esten Cooke.

66. Surry of Eagle's Nest, by John Esten Cooke.

67. Mohun, by John Esten Cooke.

68. Memoirs of a Southern Planter, by Mrs. Susan Dabney
Smedes.

At the conclusion of the reading, and after the storm of
applause had subsided, General W. H. Jackson, of Tennessee,
moved that the Report of the Committee on History be received,
and its recommendations adopted, and the report spread upon
the minutes, which was unanimously carried.

General W. H. Jackson also moved that the thanks and
appreciation of the Convention be extended to the Committee on
History for its admirable report, and that the Committee be con-
tinued with full power and authority to appoint sub-committees
and take such steps as it may deem best to bring about a com-
pletion of the work, and to fill any vacancies occuring amongst
its members. Tne motion received a second and was unani-
mously carried.

(Official) GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

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Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee, as Chairman of the Historical Commit-
ee, presented the following:

Richmond, Va., June 29, 1896.

Major General George Moorman, Adjutant General United Confederate

Veterans :

Dear General — The Historical Committee of the U. C. Vs., in
session, have instructed me, in a supplementary report, to refer the
resolutions of the Battlefield Park Commission of the city of Fred-
ericksburg, Va , to the U. C. V.'s for their consideration, and the
appointment of the proper committee.

Eespectfully submitted,

S. D. LEE,

Chairman Historical Committee.

The undersigned Committee of the Battlefield Park Commis-
sion of the city of Fredericksburg are instructed to present the
resolutions herewith inclosed to the proper committee of the United
Confederate Veterans for their endorsement and approval. The
Committee on History is respectfully requested to recommend the
passage of the resolution by the United Confederate Veterans, or to
have it referred to the proper committee for such recommendation.

Respectfully,

W. SEYMOUR WHITE,
JOHN P. KNIGHT,
J. P. H. CRISMOND.

June 29, 1896.

Whereas, The United Confederate Veterans have heard with
pleasure that the city of Fredericksburg has inaugurated a move-
ment looking to the establishment, by the government of the
United States, of a National Battlefield Park at or near the city of
Frederickburg, to commemorate the great historic battles of Fred-
ericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spottsylvania Court House and the
Wilderness ; and,

Whereas, The United Confederate Veterans feel an interest and
a pride in the establishment of such a park, which shall commem-
orate on these well-remembered fields the common glory and fame
of a common and now reunited people.

Resolved, First, That the United Confederate Veterans cor-
dially, earnestly and heartily indorse this movement, so inaugurated
by the city of Fredericksburg.

Second, That all members of these United Confederate Vet-
erans are urged to give this movement their hearty co-operation in
any proper manner.

The resolution and request were unanimously referred to the
Monument Committee.

General Jackson then stated that he was very anxious to listen
to the address which Dr. J. L. M. Curry was about to make on
" History," but in view of the late hour he moved that the address
be postponed until to-morrow at 10:30 o'clock. This was agreed to.

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ON RESOLUTIONS.

The following members of the Committee on Resolutions were
then announced:

Maryland — Colonel John W. Torseh.

Virginia — J. Taylor Ellyson.

North Carolina — General William L. De Kosset.

South Carolina — Colonel J. G. Holmes.

Georgia — W. L. Calhoun.

Florida — J. A. Enslow, Jr.

Alabama — Thomas R. Roulhac.

Kentucky — Col. Eeland Hathaway.

Mississippi — Governor R. G. Shands.

Texas— M. R. Stringfellow.

Missouri — Hon. J. B. Gantt.

Tennessee — Captain W. P. V. Trolley.

Louisiana— Hon. F. A. Monroe.

Arkansas — General R. G. Shaver.

Indian Territory- General R. B. Coleman.

Oklahoma — Col. Jno. O. Casler.

One of the delegates then wanted to see a committee appointee!*
consisting of one delegate from each State, to report on a place
where the convention should be held next year. The chair declared
such a motion to be out of order, inasmuch as the Committee on
Credentials would first have to report as to who was a delegate to
the convention.

TO KEEP ORDER.

There was a good deal of confusion on account of the crowding
of outsiders into the space set aside for the delegates, General
Peyton Wise moved that the Adjutant General from each State
appoint an assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, who is to report to Captain
John T. Hughes, the Sergeant-at-Arms, at the auditorium in the
morning at 9 o'clock, so that strict order may be preserved during the
sessions of the convention. The motion was agreed to, and the chair
so ordered.

A delegate made a motion that the District of Columbia be
recognized on all committees, which was seconded, carried and so
ordered.

General R. B. Coleman, of the Indian Territory, stated that the
Territory of Oklahoma was thoroughly organized as far as Camps of
Confederate Veterans were concerned, and he therefore moved that
Oklahoma be represented in the convention. This was agreed to, and
on motion of General Coleman, Colonel John O. Casler was added to
the Committees on Credentials and Resolutions, as a representative
of Oklahoma.

On motion of Dr. J. William Jones, the convention then adjourn-
ed until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning.

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SECOND DAYS PROCEEDINGS.

Wednesday, July 1st, 1896.

It was nearly half-past ten o'clock when General John B. Gordon
called the convention of United Confederate Veterans to order in
the Auditorium to enter upon the second day of the business session.
He was greeted with hearty and long continued applause.

By that time every seat on the ground floor of the great Audi-
torium was taken, and about two-thirds of the galleries were taken up
by deeply interested spectators. Sergeant-at-Arms John T. Hughes,
of Richmond, Va„ did noble work in preserving order on the floor,
and preventing outsiders from occupying the seats of the delegates.
He was aided by an able corps of assistants, made up of representa-
tives from all the Southern States.

BISHOP NEWTON'S PRAYER.

After calling the convention to order, General Gordon presented
to the audience Right Rev. John B. Newton, Bishop coadjutor of the
Diocese of Virginia, who offered the following prayer:

Almighty and Everlasting God, our Heavenly Father, the God
of all the nations of the world, and the God without Whose knowledge
not a sparrow falleth to the ground, in Thee we live and move and
and have our being, and unto Thee we would give at all times and in
all places the honor due unto Tby holy name. Forgive all our sins,
blot out our transgressions, and remember them against us no more
forever, for Jesus Christ's sake. Direct us in all our doings with Thy
most gracious favor, further us with Thy continued help, that all
things may be begun, continued, and ended in Thee, that we may
glorify Thy holy name; and finally, by Thy mercy, be received into
Thine everlasting kingdom.

Oh, Gracious Father, bless our country; bless its rulers and its
people. May all things be conducted so that the safety, honor and
welfare of all people may be advanced. Save us from the dangers
that seem to encompass us, and grant, Oh Gracious Father, that Thy
people may learn wisdom and righteousness through all these days.
Bless especially our Southern land. Lord, bless those who are
gathered here in this great gathering, made sacred by tender mem-
ories and hallowed associations. Keep each one of Thy servants here
in Thy holy keeping. Bring them safely to their respective homes.
Bless their households and their families, and finally save them all in
Thy kingdom above. And especially we would thank Thee for Thy
numberless mercies, and for the good example of those of Thy servants,
who have departed this life in Thy faith and fear. Help us to
remember them and emulate their virtues. Help us, Oh, Gracious
Father, by Thy grace, to follow them, even as they followed Christ.
All of which we offer unto Thee in the name of our dear Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

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REPORT ON CREDENTIALS.

The Chair then announced that the report of the Committee
on Credentials would be in order, and the following was then read :

The Committee on Credentials respectfully report that they
have examined the credentials submitted to them, and they find
that delegates have been accredited from 850 camps, in good
standing as follows, to-wit :

States. Camps. Delegates.

Louisiana 51 164

Maryland 6 18

Virginia , 31 116

North Carolina 29 86

South Carolina 77 194

Georgia 55 127

West Virginia 1 2

Florida 30 46

Alabama 87 297

Mississippi 60 99

Texas 213 449

Oklahoma 5 2

Missouri 70 188

Tennessee 29 96

Arkansas 52 55

Kentucky 37 84

Indian Territory 11 14

Montana 2 2

California 1 6

Washington, D. C 1 12

Indiana 1 2

Total camps, 850; total delegates, 2,045.

The committee, therefore, respectfully recommends that the
names heretofore furnished to the Adjutant-General be declared
delegates to this convention, with power to fill any vacancies in
their numbers on account of absence or otherwise from other mem-
bers of their respective camps here present, or to cast the vote of
their respective camps.

W. N. BUSH,

Chairman.

J. A. ENSLOW, Jr.,

Secretary.
Some discussion then arose as to the admission of the other
camps represented on the floor where per capita was not paid, and
it was finally decided, on motion of Genl. Jed. Hotchkiss, of Staun-
ton, that all camps that come in and comply with the provisions of
the Constitution by at once paying their per capita be admitted to
the convention and it was so recorded.

The report of the Committee on Credentials was then adopted.

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SONS OF VETERANS.

General Stephen D Lee, amid tremendous applause, offered the
following resolution touching the organization of the Sons of
Veterans:

Resolved, That the United Confederate Veterans recognize with
peculiar delight that a call has been issued by R. E. Lee Camp, No.
1, Sons of Confederate Veterans, for a general organization of Sons
of Confederate Veterans, and that this convention hereby pledges
the support of this body to the movement, and that the Command-
ing General is authorized to appoint a committee, to be composed
of one member from each division of the United Confederate Vet-
erans and one from the camps outside the organized divisions, to
confer with the Sons' committee and convention, and report at this
meeting some feasible means to assist their organization.

General Lee, in presenting his resolution, made a stirring
speech advocating the movement to organize the Sons and to instill
in their breast the great truths in connection with the past of their
ancestry. The paper was unanimously adopted and the great con-
vention cheered wildly.

General H. Kyd Douglas, of Maryland, then offered the follow-
ing resolution:

THE CHICAGO MONUMENT.

The United Confederate Veterans assembled in annual reunion
at Richmond, ever mindful of their dead comrades wherever they
may lie, and holding in grateful memory all those who do them
honor, desire to express to the city of Chicago their most grateful
acknowledgments of the broad-minded liberality of its people in
the erection and consecration of the lofty monument over the 6000
of our dead who rest within its protection, and the boundless hos-
pitality with which it received all Confederate soldiers who attended
that dedication. Our thanks are given without stint to every army
veteran, soldier and citizen of that great city who participated in
that memorable scene. May the monument there lifted up stand
through the ages as a perpetual reminder that its dedication was
the final triumphal scene of a great war, commemorative alike of
the heroic dead it honors and of reunited peace and friendship
between North and South."

In seconding the resolution offered by General H. Kyd Doug-
las, of Baltimore, General Stephen D. Lee said :

GENERAL LEe's REMARKS.

"I desire to second the motion. I was at Chicago at the unveil-
ing of that monument and I never in my life saw a greater and
more cheerful welcome than that accorded to the representatives of
the Confederate army who were present. Three-fourths of the
money necessary to erect that monument was subscribed by the
citzens of Chicago, and when the Confederate delegation was in

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Chicago they passed two or three miles through 150,000 spectators,
and every honor was given them. (Applause.) The was not one
word, one look, one motion that did not carry with it love and
friendship to your comrades who were there, and my comrades, I
want to say that only until that visit I never believed that the war
was entirely over, and its prejudices gone. (Applause) I felt
then that every Confederate soldier could go in and make a display
of his loyalty to the honor of our common country. ( Loud
applause.)

GENEEAL CABELl's BEMABKS.

General W. L. Cabell, of Texas, arose and said:

"Comrades, I have the honor of seconding that resolution.
Although I was not present, I sent my representative — my daughter.
(Loud applause.) She was there. (Continued applause.) From
what she said, and from what my friend, General Lee, has said
no people extended hospitality in a more lavish way than the city<
of Chicago did to the representatives of the Southern people.
(Renewed applause.) Representing 225 camps in the State of
Texas, and 340 in the Trans-Mississippi Department, I have the
honor to second the resolution in behalf of those noble men whom
I had the honor to command. (Cheers.) Every man in the Trans-
Mississippi Department, from Montana down to the Commonwealth
of Mexico, bids me second that resolution. I do it in behalf of as
brave a set of men as the sun ever shone upon. (Loud applause.)
I second that resolution in behalf of the men of the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, who were brave in war, and at the same time
they have no apologies to make to anybody under any circum-
stances. (Renewed applause )

I second that resolution in behalf of the Sons and Daughters
of the Confederacy. I do it in behalf of the men who were not
afraid to acknowledge what they doing during the war. (Cheers.)

In conclusion he said: "£ would not take a lump of gold as big
as Texas, and a diamond in it as big as Arkansas, for the part I
took in this war." (Loud applause.)

General (Red) Jackson, of Tennessee, next arose and said:

GENERAL W. H. JACKSON'S REMARKS.

Mr. Chairman and Comrades — It is with a very great pleasure I
second that resolution, representing the grand old volunteer State of
Tennessee. (Cheers). Let me tell you that was the first olive branch
extended to the Southern people, when General Underwood applied to
the colonel commanding the First Illinois regiment to fire a salute over
the dead there, he said it would give him pleasure to furnish the
whole battalion. Subsequently, when the Grand Army of the
Republic cemmenced criticising, General Underwood went to that
colonel and said: ' Lest it embarrass you, you can recall that order.'
He said: ' I was in the war from the start, and can stand such criti-
cisms, and I will furnish my entire regiment to fire that salute.

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" In recognition of that fact, I held a mass meeting in Nashville,
and appointed a committee of ten on Invitation and three hundred on
"Reception, and invited those people to Nashville. They came, and we
gave them a grand old barbecue, and there were 1,500 of them
present. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that I second that
resolution." (Applause).

Kentucky also warmly secouded the resolution. Col. H. A. New-
man, of Missouri, also spoke eloquently in support ol the resolu-
tion.

General Douglas next arose and said: " I offered this resolution
because I considered that the scene enacted at Chicago on the 30th
of May, 1885, has fired the last shot of our civil war and inaugurated
the greatest triumph of modern times. (Loud cheers). There was
no other country on the face of this earth in which such a thing
could have been done; there was no other city in this Union that
would have done it as magnificently as Chicago did." (Applause).

The resolution was also seconded by several other speakers on the
floor of the convention, and it was unanimously adopted by a rising
vote amidst the wildest cheering.

After the vote on the adoption of the resolution was taken, Gen-
eral Gordon said:

" Now let the wires flash, that this part of the Union is ready to
back the great powers necessary to carry us forward to our destiny."
(Tremendous applause).

There was a simultaneous and united call for Underwood.
" Underwood," " Underwood," which continued to grow and swell
until the building fairly shook with the cry, but the distinguished
comrade who had done more than all else together in rescuing from
oblivion the names and caring for the graves and memory of the
Southern dead upon Northern soil, was not present to receive the
ovation which he so justly and richly merited.

Dr. J. L. M. Curry, who had been invited to deliver an address
before the convention by resolution passed at the Houston Reunion,
then delivered his great address:

DR. CURRY'S ABLE ADDRESS.

A Powerful Address on the Subject of Southern History.

He spoke in an eloquent and able manner and held the individual
attention of the big audience for fully an hour. While Dr. Curry
was speaking Governor O'Ferrall entered the convention hall and was
loudly cheered while he was taking his seat on the platform.

Dr. Curry had not gotten far into his splendid speech when the
Maryland delegation marched into the hall, headed by the Jas. R.
Herbert Camp band, of Baltimore, which discoursed the inspiring
strains of " Maryland, my Maryland." When the strains of this
familiar tune were first heard there was the most tremendous cheer-
ing. After the Marylanders had become seated,

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General Gordon addressing the audience, said: "I do not
wonder that you shout over my Maryland " and " Dixie," if our
tongues refused to speak, these very walls would cry out, but we
have a great lesson being taught us for ourselves and our children,
and I want these old men before they go to their long homes to know
these American truths, which stand like sign boards, along the entire
pathway of the South from its infancy. Now hear them my country-
men, and be silent that you may hear.

The gifted orator continued his address on Southern history.

General Gordon in presenting Dr. Curry, said: The chair has a
great treat in store for these brave men, in listening to the discussion
which is to tell us something of our great past as an encouragement
of the boundless future which it opens up to our country and our
section. I introduce, therefore, with great pleasure, that splendid
orator, that gifted son of Alabama, the Hon. J. L. M. Curry to this
great audience:

ADDRESS.

" Comrades : We meet under auspicious circumstances. As
time rolls on our record becomes brighter, and there is a readier
and more general acknowledgment of our deeds, motives, princi-
ples. The erection of a Confederate monument in Chicago, and the
spirit and utterances of the meeting in Chickamauga, give us hope
that the resentments and animosities and prejudices of the war are
being effaced by healthier opinions and actions, and that recon-
struction is not confined to south of Mason and Dixon's line. The
visits of Northern Governors and troops to the Atlanta Exposition,
the display of products in friendly rivalry, the profuse and cordial
hospitality to visitors, indicate subsidence of antagonisms and
prevalence of reconciliation and brotherhood. France and Ger-
many keep alive animosities, pile up armaments, prepare for con-
flict, covet excuse or occasion for letting loose the dogs of war,
usque ad inter necwnem. We advocate peace and friendship, would
change alienations to feelings of kindness, and would regard
renewal of strife as an irreparable calamity to both sections. This
assembly of war-scarred veterans has no such purpose as recital of
wrongs endured, or indulgence in vain pride, or egotistic lauda-
tions. We are not here in malice or in mischief, in disaffection or
in rebellion, nor to keep alive sectional hates, nor awaken revenge
for defeat, nor kindle disloyalty to the Union. We are not hyphened
Americans — Irish-Americans, German-Americans — but Americans,
pure and simple, without prefix or condition. If anything more
distinctive be required, we are Constitutional Americans, favoring
representative, republican, constitutional governments. We come
together for no such vain purpose as to revive the ' Lost Cause,' but
in common love for those who bore the conquered banner.

" ' Time cannot teach forgetfulness

When grief's full heart is fed by fame.'

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"This recognition of the glorious deeds of our comrades is
perfectly consistent with loyalty to the flag and devotion to the
Constitution and the resulting Union. One who does not love his
family, his home, cannot love his country. The most precious rec-
ollections attach to those who bequeathed to their survivors the
noblest examples of devotion to liberty and truth ; who gave attest-
ations of their convictions by grand battles, numerous victories; by
unexampled patience, fortitude, courage; by daring to die for wife,
children, home, inherited rights.

"If ashamed of the cause for which Hampden died on the field
of honor, or Russell perished on the scaffold, we may blush for our
degeneracy. The world is richer; humanity has been ennobled by
Stuart, the Johnstons, Jackson, Hill, Lee, by our private soldiers,
our more heroic women; and, if too cowardly to honor them, we
may well call on the rocks to fall on us, and hide us from universal
scorn.

" While the late Confederate States abide with knightly fealty
the award of the bloody arbitrament to which there were forced,
none more cheerfully than these veterans recognize the courage and
prowess of antagonists, and that the prolonged and dubious strife
was a war of ideas, in which each army signalized its consecration
to principles, as each understood them. We claim it, nevertheless,
as a right and a duty to vindicate our comrades. An effort is
sometimes made to paint the ' Lost Cause ' in blackest colors, to
sully it with crimes more horrible than matricide; to overwhelm its
supporters with the odium and infamy of traitors. Constitutional
and organized resistance has been confounded with rebellion. Lee
and Jackson are no better than Catiline, and Davis and Stephens
and Hunter and Lamar and Yancey and Baldwin and Cobb are pil-
loried with Robespierre and Arnold. On our part we propose to
keep the agreement entered into at Appomattox and Durham's
Station, and to preserve the constitutional Union of States, leagued
for purposes of good government. We wish, nevertheless, to see
to it that our children do not grow up with false notions of their
fathers, and with disgraceful apologies for their conduct.

" This association, at its last meeting, invited me to deliver an
address. on the subject of " Slavery, Nullification and Secession,
with special reference to the attitude of the people, North and
South, to these three leading questions of American history." The
subject has been prescribed, and my embarrassment is a wealth of
material. Tnopem me copia fecit.

"I. Slavery. — Property in man has existed from time immemo-
rial. The most ancient records recognize compulsory human labor.
Slavery existed in England, at common law, under the name of
villenage. The power of States, the position of nobles, the fortunes
of families, have been accumulations from forced servitude. After
the treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, the Crown in council submitted to
the twelve judges of England the question, What was the legal
status of. the negro slaves in the hands of British subjects? The

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response, signed by Lord Chief Justice Holt and nine other judges,
was: 'In pursuance of His Majesty's order in council, we do numbly
certify our opinion to be that negroes are merchandise.' In many
ages and countries, under patriarchal, Jewish, Christian and other
forms of religion, personal servitude has been the lot of multitudes
of mankind. Treaties, international law, statutes, decrees of coun-
cils and synods, show that kings and people, the Roman Catholics,
and ministers and members of other religious denominations,
regarded the possession of slave property as fully compatible with
civilization and the doctrines of the gospel. (See Letter XVI of
Bishop England to Hon. John Forsyth. ) The Christian Educator,
published by the Northern Methodist Freedmen's Aid Society,
March, 1895, says: 'There were no antagonisms which Garrison's
course did not stir up. His little office in the third story of the
building then known as Merchants' Hall, in Boston, Harrison Gray
Otis described as " an obscure hole." Edward Everett declared, on
the floor of Congress about that time, thus expressing the dominant
opinion of the public sentiment, that " the great relation of servi-
tude in some form or other, with greater or less departure from the
theoretic equality of men, is inseparable from our nature. Domes-
tic slavery is not, in my judgment, to be set down as an immoral
and irreligious relation. It is a condition of life, as well as any
other, to be justified by morality, religion and international law."
The Rev. Balph Bandolph Gurley, secretary of the American Col-
onization Society, " expressed the sentiments of a vast majority of
Northern 'Christians " when he said: "The African in this country
belongs by birth to the very lowest station in society, and from that
station he can never rise, be his talent?, his enterprise, his virtues
what they may. Here, therefore, they must be forever debased ; more
than this, they must be forever useless; more even than this, they
must be forever a nuisance, from which it were a blessing for society
to be rid." Dr. Wilbur Fisk declared that "the general rule of
Christianity not only permits, but in supposable circumstances
enjoins, a continuance of the master's authority." " There is," said
the editor of the Christian Advocate and Journat, "no express prohi-
bition to Christians to hold slaves." A New England bishop
declared that the right to hold a slave is founded on this rule:
"Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do
unto you, do ye unto them." '

" The nations of Europe engaged in the slave trade and Great
Britain took a share in it as early as Elizabeth's reign. By the
Asiento Compact granted by Spain, she made a breach in the Spanish
monopoly and was allowed to furnish America with slaves, engaging
to furnish annually, for thirty years, as many as 4,800. (Seeley's
Expansion of England, 133). No fewer than 600,000 negroes were
imported into Jamacia during the eighteenth century. Bancroft esti-
mates that England kidnapped upwards of 3,000,000 from Africa for
deportation to the various American colonies. George III regarded
slavery as one of the good old customs consecrated by long usage and

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by the wisdom of bis ancestors. (3 Aubre>'s Rise and Growth of the
English Nation, 187,241). England encouraged the importation of
slaves into her American colonies; prosecuted the trade two hundred
and seventy-four years, continuing it for nearly thirty years after its
abolition iu this country, in the course of which time 5,000,000 were
caught and put to labor. (Kettell's Southern Wealth and Northern
Profits, 12). In the last century, New England earned a large portion
of her property by the slave trade and continued it until 1807. As
Fuller says, ' Few are such infidels as not to believe doctrines which
make for their own profit' The towns of Newport, Bristol and
Providence in Rhode Island; Stonington, New London and New
Haven, in Connecticut; Fall River, Boston and Salem, in Massachus-
etts, were engaged for many years in carrying rum aud other products
to Africa and bringing back negroes as return cargoes. The largest
Guineamen swarmed at their wharves, and these towns were largely
built up by the 'accursed traffic' (Kettell, 18). In 1760 South
Carolina passed an act to prohibit further importation of slaves, but
Great Britain rejected with indignation and declared that the slave
trade was beneficial and necessary. (See Dew on Slavery). Virginia
passed as many as twenty-three acts prohibiting it. (1 Henry's
Henry, 54, 150; Tyler's Taney, Appendix). The last prayer Virginia
ever made to mortal man was in 1772 to George III to abolish the
slave trade at least so far as Virginia was concerned. In 1770, the
King of England wrote to Governor Botetourt, commanding him, on
pain of his highest displeasure, to assent to no law by which the im-
portation of slaves would be in any respect obstructed. (3 Aubrey,
241). Slavery was imposed against the earnest and oft-repeated pro-
test of the General Assembly, by the negations of the King of
England or of the governors on the laws enacted to prohibit the im-
portation of or traffic in slaves. Within two years after the Declara-
tion of Independence, almost thirty years before New England would
consent to forego entirely her profits by allowing the United States to
prohibit, Virginia set the seal of her reprobation upon this opprobrium
of modern civilization, and was the first country in the world to take
this bold step. The preamble of her Constitution of 1776 complains
of one of the acts of ' detestable and unsupportable tyranny' of the
King of Great Britain, that he had prompted the negroes to rise in
arms, ' those very negroes, whom, by an inhuman use of his negation
he had refused us permission to exclude by law.' (1 Minor's Insti-
tutes, 161-164). In the very first session held under the Republican
government, the Assembly passed a law for the perpetual prohibition
of the importation of slaves and to remove 'all restraints which
inhibited governors assenting to such laws as might check so very
pernicious a commerce.' (1 Tucker's Blackstone, App. 51 Note).
Several other colonies sent up petitions similar to those of Virginia,
but Great Britain refused to abolish the traific. (Southern Quarterly
Review, April, 1842). No Southern colony nor State ever had. a
vessel engaged in the slave trade.

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"In the convention which framed the Constitution, a committee
reported in favor of limiting the slave trade to 1800. An amendment
was moved, which prevailed, to extend it to 1808, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut and New Hampshire voting for the amendment, and Virginia
against it. (3d Madison papers, 126). The United States (2d of
March, 1807), took the initiative in abolishing the trade. Slavery, at
the time of the Declaration of Independence, existed in all the States.
African slavery has shared in the evolution of public opinion and
social institutions, and the Christian world has slowly, but irrevocably,
arrived at the great truth that a human being with will, conscience,
intellect, immortality, is entitled to personal freedom, to the products
of his labor, to unrestraint upon his fullest moral and mental devel-
opment.

" The Constitution of the United States, adopted in 1787, recog-
nized slavery in three of its articles, and, for many years up to the
fierce abolition agitation of later times, there was no formidable
effort for its removal.

II. Nullification — A clear mandate of the Constitution required
slaves to be delivered up to their owners when escaping into another
State. Congress discharged its duty by passing laws to carry out
this constitutional obligation, and every President complied with his
oath to see the law duly executed. A sense of justice and of mutual
interest insured the observance of the fundamental law of the land.
Such Northern expounders of the Constitution as Story, Webster,
Pierce, Woodbury, Fillmore and Buchanan affirmed in unequivocal
phrase the duty of the government to carry out this solemn engage-
ment. It is worthy of note that Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Oregon and
Minnesota enacted laws excluding negroes from their territory, and
their right to do so was not disputed. (Kettell, 125-158). In 1853
Illinois, under the leadership of John A. Logan, punished a negro
coming into and remaining in the State by fine and sale, and this law
was not repealed until 1865. In Pngg vs. Pennsylvania (16 Peters),
Justice Story, in rendering the decision of the Supreme Court, said:
« From 1793, the date of the passage of the fugitive slave law, down
to the present hour, not a doubt has been breathed upon the constitu-
tionality of the act, and every executive in the Union has constantly
acted upon and admitted its validity. This very acquiescence, under
such circumstances, of the highest State functionaries, is a most
decisive proof of the universality of the opinion that the act is
founded in a just construction of the Constitution, independent of the
vast influence which it ought to have as a contemporaneous exposition
of the provisions by those who were its immediate framers or inti-
mately connected with its adoption.'

" In later years, under the new mode of interpreting our consti-
tutional compact by the 'moral sense' of the individual and his
internal convictions of a ' higher law,' sweeping away legal and con-
stitutional barriers, resistance was made by men and families and
secret organizations. This hostility was developed in party platforms,
ecclesiastical deliverances, congressional speeches, judicial dicta and

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legislative enactments. Impediments were thrown in the way of the
return of fugitives from laoor by lawless mubs. The Federal govern-
ment and tne owners were subjected to heavy expense. Ten sovereign
States interposed to punish the owners, protect the thieves and con-
fiscate the property ol citizens oi sister States. This was the second
instance of flagrant nullification of the plaiu provision of the Consti-
tution and of laws made in pursuance thereof. Maine, Massachusetts,
Vermont, Mew Hampshire, Kliode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minne-
sota, and beyond all the rest, Wisconsin, tilled their statute books
with laws adopted ingeniously and effectively for the purpose of
rendering nugatory the express covenants of the Constitution. A
Northern lawyer says the decisions of the Supreme Court of Wis-
consin were without a shadow of support in law, and can only be
defended on revolutionary grounds, (flaich. Lect. 282). These nulifica-
tions were summary, decisive, revolutionary, and dissolved the Union
so far as the clear constitutional mandate was concerned. ' Without
this mandate," said Story and others, "the Union would never have
been formed.'' This nullification made the Federal Union dissolu-
ble pro tanto at the pleasure of any State, or any department of
State. (Id. 152, 207. These precedents were never followed in the
South. No Southern State ever nullified a clause of the Constitu-
tion or an Act of Congress.

"A writer in a Washington (city) newspaper says that 'When
Calhoun found that he could not be President he resolved to be a
traitor. He invented nullification.' The nullifiation proposed by
Mr- Calhoun, so misrepresented, so deliberately perverted by
Northern historians, was never carried into effect, tor the very Con-
gress which passed the force bill to coerce South Carolina into
submission to the tariffs of 1828 and 1832, at the same session re-
pealed these two laws' and Andrew Jackson signed the repeal, and
thus swept from the statute book what South Carolina had declared
to be unconstitutional and void. South Carolina succeeded in
accomplishing her object by the 'Compromise Act' of March,- 1833,
which Mr. Calhoun supported. She accepted the concession and
repealed the ordinance of nullification. The convention of the
State had proposed terms of compromise, after which, should Con-
gress comply, the State would repeal the nullification ordinance.
The 'Force .bill,' rendered wholly unnecessary by the 'Compromise
Act,' was approved by the President on the same day and expired
by its own limitation at the end of the next session of Congress.
(Congressional Debates, Vol. IX, part 2d, Appendix 1(58, Buchan-
an's Administration on the Eve of the Pebellion, pp. 92-93.) The
nullification, at most was intended as an arrest of judgment, a sus-
pension of authority, until a convention of the States, the creators
of the Union could be legally summoned to decide whether they
had delegated a denied power to their governmental agent. The
contention was as to the right of a State, in its most solemn form
of action, to prevent the Constitution from being violated by the general

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government, and in no sense to abrogate the Constitution or suspend
its authority. The State, in a convention of the sovereign people
duly and legally assembled —the Constitution-making power as
contra-distinguished from the law-making power— declared the
protective tariff laws of '28 and '32 to be unconstitutional, and,
therefore, null and void within her limits. This was an appeal to
the paramount power in our system— the convention of the States
— to declare authoritively what is the Constitution, or to amend its
defects. The utmost extent of South Carolina nullification was,
that a State, 'acting in its sovereign capacity as one of the parties
to the constitutional compact, may compel the government created
by that compact to submit a question touching its infraction to the
parties who created it.'

•'Ours being a political system composed of the separate gov-
ernments of the several States, and of one common government of all
the States, called the Government of the United States, each created
by written constitutions, those of the particular States by the peo-
ple of each acting separately, and that of the United States by the
people of each in their sovereign capacity, but acting jointly (La-
mar's Calhoun, 86; 1 Calhoun, 111, 112, 167), it follows from the
relations which subsist between co-ordinate governments, that a mu-
tual negative on the part of each is necessary to protect each from
the other, and that in the case, of conflict as to the limits of their
respective authority, neither has the right to impose by force its de-
cision on the other, but must appeal to a power paramount to either,
whose decision is final and binding on both. (1 Calhoun's Works,
236 244, 277.)

"This doctrine is not revolutionary nor anarchial, and if the
Constitution be the basis of the Federal Union, it is preservative,
and the sure foundation of the Union itself. There never was in
the councils of the country a purer patriot, or one more disinterest-
edly attached to our political institutions and the union of the
States, than Mr. Calhoun. The nullification of the Northern States
was the arbitrary assumption of town meetings, State courts, sepa-
rate legislatures, to determine finally the grants of the Constitution,
and to exempt their people from obligation to the Federal compact
and to make null and inoperative the laws of the Union. The nulli-
fication by communities, courts, legislatures of Northern States was
in hot haste a flagrant violation of a clear provision of the articles of
agreement between the States, and there was not a pretence of resort
to a prescribed arbiter. The nullification of South Carolina was a de-
mand for a stay of judgment against robbery of her people through
bounties or protective tariffs unconstitutionally levied for favored
interests of the North until there could be an appeal to the tribu-
nal provided by our sagacious fathers for the settlement of such
disputes. The contrast between the two kinds of nullification is the
contrast between order and anarchy, between law and misrule, be-
tween calm judgment and respect for the rights of other contracting
parties, and passion, prejudice, arrogant assumption of absolute
authority.

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"The Virginia resolutions of '98, declare that in case of a danger-
ous exercise of powers not enumerated in the Constitution, the
States, who are parties to the compact, 'have the right and are in
duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and
for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights,
and liberties appertaining to them.' The Kentucky resolutions of
'99 affirm that each State reserved to its own self-government the
residuary mass of undelegated powers, and that 'each party (State)
has an equal right to ju lge for itself as well of infractions as of the
mode and measure of redress.' MadisDn in his report-, as adopted by
the Virginia Legislature, said: 'The States, being the parties .to the
constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of
necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority to de-
cide in the last resort whether the compact made by them be violated,
and, consequently, that, as parties to it, they must themselves decide
in the last resort such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude as
require their interposition.' As said our great statesman, 'Language
cannot be more explicit, nor can higher authority be adduced.' (1
Calhoun. 353, 359.)

"The principle that the General Government is the exclusive
judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it stops nothing short
of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the gov-
ernment and not the Constitution would be the measure of their
power. The Kentucky and the Virgiuia resolutions and Madison's re-
port were promulgated at a time wheh the encroachments of the
Federal Government on the rights reserved to the States and people
threatened to break down all barriers of the Constitution, in estab-
lishing by successive precedents such a mode of construing the
instrument as to remove every restraint upon Federal power. The
principles, in the language of Jefferson, 'saved the Constitution even
at its last gasp,' and brought back the Government to the purity and
simplicity from which it had so widely departed. Each State is as
sovereign in the exercise of rights reserved in the compact as the
General Government is sovereign within the powers granted to it.
Chief Justice Marshall said: 'In America the powers of sovereignty
are divided between the Government of the Union and those of the
States. They are 6ach sovereign with respect to the objects com-
mitted to it; but neither sovereign with respect to the objects com-
mitted to the other. If it be true that the Constitution and laws
made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land, it is
equally true that laws of the United States, made not in pursuance
thereof, cannot be the supreme laws of the land.

"In 1820-1 the Legislature of Ohio reaffirmed the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions, as the principles of the majority of the
American people, and adopted a report, rendering the Bank Act inop-
erative, and thus nullified an act of Congress and ignored the author-
ity of the Federal judiciary.

" The same spirit, which rendered nugatory the covenant for
restoring fugitives from labor, marked the course of New England

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in the war of 1812, when States and Governors nullified the laws of
Congress, gave aid and comfort to the enemy while burning the
capitol, and acted as if they had no common duty in protecting the
flag, in resisting invasion, in defending our soil and country. It
may not be unworthy of note that the first threat of disunion by
Massachusetts was while her people were engaged in the slave
trade. The first instance of rebellion by a State against the Fed-
eral Government was that of Massachusetts, and on the ground that
she was justified by the doctrine of State rights and State sov-
ereignty. In her declarations and deeds of hostility she inter-
posed-her sovereignty to resist the authority of the Federal Gov-
ernment. Governor Strong said to the Legislature: ' I was under
the same obligation to maintain the rights of the State as to sup-
port the Constitution of the United States.' The Legislature, in
1814, called the State 'free and sovereign,' declared the Constitu-
tion to be a ' national compact,' and said that it was ' as much the
duty of the State authorities to watch over the rights reserved as
of the United States to exercise the powers which are delegated,
and that States which have no common umpire must be their own
judges and execute their own decisions.'

"III. Secession. — In the election of 1860, in direct antagonism
to the opinions and covenants of the men who achieved our inde-
pendence and framed the Constitution that made the Union, it was
deliberately decided that the States could not exist together as
slave-holding and non-slave-holding, and that the 'irrepressible con-
flict ' between them must go on until the ' relic of barbarism ' should
be effaced from the Constitution and the laws. Governor Chase, in
February, 1861, said: ' The people of the free States (who believe
that slave-holding is wrong) cannot and will not aid in the reclama-
tion of fugitives from labor, and the stipulation in the Constitution
becomes therefore a dead letter.' The Southern States believe that
the transfer of the government of a common country to an execu-
tive and to a Congress elected upon the platform of pronounced
hostility to their institutions, involved a repudiation of the cov-
enanted faith of their sister States, and released them from all obli-
gation to bear the burden of their own covenants, when they were
denied the benefits of the corresponding covenants of the other
contracting States. (1 Calhoun, 323 )

" The seceding States then openly, with the most public dec-
laration of purpose, determined to withdraw from the compact and
establish a separate government for themselves. They made no
encroachment on their neighbors, denied and deprived them of
no constitutional rights, made no assault on property or institu-
tions, but sought only to keep their wayward sisters, as the rest pf
mankind, ' enemies in war, in peace friends.' No provision had
been made by them for resistance to their withdrawal from the part-
nership; not a gun nor a dollar had been prepared for such a con-
tingency. The government at Washington and the Northern States
were not taken by surprise. Nothing was ever more deliberate,

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more calmly considered, more frankly pre-announced. What was
done was not furtively done, but in open day, and in the exercise
of rights claimed in the convention which made the Constitution,
by the States in l^he ratification of the instrument, and continuously
from that day to the final action. The secession of a sovereign
State was regarded as valid as the act by which the same State
entered the Union. Virginia and New York, on whose acts the fate
of the instrument depended, in ratifying the Constitution, declared
that the powers granted by them could be resumed when. perverted
to their injury or oppression ; that every power not granted
remained with them, and at their will, thus most carefully guarding
the reserved powers against impairment and placing them beyond
the possible interference and control of the government of the
United States. These ratifications being accepted by the other
States with this construction of the Constitution, made the con-
struction as binding morally as if it had been inserted in the Con-
stitution itself. Rhode Island lingered until after the inaugura-
tion of Washington and gave her ratification, without objection,
with the same explicit avowals. (5 Bureau of Rolls, 140, 145,
191-2, 811.)

"Besides the clear assertion on the part of ratifying States of
the right to re-assume delegated powers, a larger number were so
apprehensive and distrustful of Federal encroachment, so jealous
in the maintenance of their respective rights, that they attached
bills of rights to their assent, or proposed amendments to restrict
the General Government, the incorporation of which into the Con-
stitution was earnestly insisted upon. Massachusetts proposed
nine; New Hampshire, twelve; Rhode Island, twenty-one; New
York, thirty three; Virginia, twenty; North Carolina, twenty-six;
South Carolina, five. Every suggested amendment was a restraint
of power, and to guard the liberties of the people; not one intima-
tion of a desire conferred additional power on the common Govern-
ment. Such a thing as the 'omnipotence of Parliament,' the absorp-
tion of the functions of government by the central head, seems not
to have had a suggestion. The eleven amendments, which were
soon adopted, were all along the line of guarding against central-
ized power.

" In Marbury vs. Madison (1 Cranch, 137-176), Chief Justice Mar-
shall said: 'The powers of the Legislature are defined and limited,
and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the Consti-
tution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what
purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may
at any time be passed by by those intended to be restrained? The
distinction between limited and unlimited powers is abolished if
these limits do not confine the person on whom they are imposed.'
■ To endow the Federal Government,' says Madison, ' with whatever
it should judge instrumental toward the general welfare, would
make frivolous an enumeration of powers.'

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"Notwithstanding the limited character of the Government,
early in the administration of President Lincoln the Government
put forth various expedients for coercing the States into submission
to the central powei\ The distinct proposition, delegating the
power to the Federal Government to coerce the States, 'authorizing
an exertion of the force of the whole against the delinquent States,'
was formally submitted to the convention and rejected. On May
31, 1787, Mr. Madison said 'an union of the States containing surh
an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use
of force against the State would look more like a declaration of war
than an infliction of punishment; and would probably be considered
by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by
which it might be bound.' ('2 Madison Papers, 76.)

"The theory of Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln was that,
while there was no power to coerce a State to remain in the Union,
it was within the constitutional function of the Government to
compel individual inhabitants of any State to obey the laws of the
United States; and this coercion could be accomplished by all the
force necessary to remove all obstruction through the exercise of
the claimed power. (Message, 3 December, 1860.) In this there
were two gross assumptions which have not a resting place in the
history of the formation of the Government, or in the grants of the
Constitution.

"First. That Congress, or all, or either, of the departments
of the Government can decide ultimately and authoritatively
upon the powers of the Government ; upon the character and
extent of the grants and limitations of the Constitution. This
assumption on the part of the creature to determine and decide
upon the action of the creators — States — in the formation and
endowment of the Federal Government is a claim of absolute
sovereignty. The right to prescribe the Constitution, coerce sub-
mission to it — this supreme authority in the last resort — is sover-
eignty. Reduced to its real meaning, stripped of illusory verbiage,
this claim of the Government at Washington was identical with the
absolutist pretensions of the Holy Alliance. Our Constitution is
not a mere temporary expedient. It exists in full force until
changed by an explicit and authentic act, as prescribed by the
instrument, and in its essential features, is for all time, for it con-
tains the fundamental principles of all good government of all free
representative institutions.

Secondly. " That the General Government is not only superior
to the States, but has an existence, an autonomy, outside, irrespec-
tive of, contrary to, the States. The Union could not exist a day if
all of the States were to withdraw their cooperation. The Presi-
dent, the Senate, and Representatives, with all their powers, are
conditioned upon the action of the States. The Federal Govern-
ment, the Union, as a corporate body politic, does not claim its life,
nor a single power, from the people apart from State organizations.

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In truth, and in fact, there is not, nor ever has been, such a politi-
cal entity as the people of the United States in the aggregate,
separated from, independent of, the voluntary or covenanted action
of the States. That anything is constitutional or admissible, sim-
ply because the judiciary, or the Executive, or the Congress, or the
moral convictions of citizens approve, or the country will be bene-
fited by it, is a modern invention and has no basis in our constitu-
tional Federal republic. To put it in the least objectionable form,
the States, in their undelegated powers, are as important, as
supreme, as the General Government; and the theory of State sub
jugation is a pure afterthought to justify arbitrary and ungranted
authority. It is indisputable that by far the greater part of the
topics of legislation, the whole vast range of rights of person and
property — where the administration of law and justice come closest
home to the daily life of the people — are exclusively or chiefly
within the power of the States. The number of topics of legislation
which lie outside the pale of national legislation greatly exceeds
the number to which the power of State legislation does not extend.
Madison said: ' The powers delegated to the Federal Government
are few and defined. Those which remain to the State governments
are numerous and indefinite, and extend to all the objects which, in
the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and proper-
ties of the people.' (Federalist, §§ 251, 252; Mich. Lect. 244; 1
Calhoun, 197, 201, 214, 215). If the Union be indissoluble, with
equal or greater propriety we may affirm that the States are equal
and indestructible.

" Permit me to refer here to an opinion oft uttered bjr dispu-
tants that the right of a State to secede was not found in the Con-
stitution and was, therefore, illegal and indefensible. No intelligent
student of our political system ever based secession directly upon
the Constitution. The claim was that prior to the Constitution and
after the Declaration of Independence, the States were separately
independent and sovereign, possessing all the powers of govern-
ment which were possessed by any other nation. The Federal
Government, or the Union, has no inherent powers as a government.
All are derivative, proceeded from, were granted by the States, and
what the States did not surrender and are not found specified in the
Constitution, or necessarily implied from the grants belong to the
States without diminution or impairment. The right to withdraw
from the Union did not depend on any concession in the Constitu-
tion. If it ever existed, it is because it was not prohibited in the
Constitution and remained among reserved powers. It is absurd to
make the rights of a State depend upon an instrument of gift made
by that State. The tenth amendment provides that powers not
delegated nor prohibited remain in fullest measure in the hands of
the grantor, and this was adopted, at the recommendation of
several of the conventions of the ratifying States, in order to guard
against misconceptions of the meaning of the Constitution. (1
Calhoun, 251). Rawle, of Philadelphia, in a work declared by

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Judge Story to be high authority on many questions of constitu-
tional law, and once used, as some graduates say, as a text-book at
West Point, maintained the right of a State to secede from the
Union. In 1859, at a convention in Cleveland, O, in which Giddings,
Senator Wade, Governor Chase, ex-Governor Dennison participated,
resolutions were adopted, using the language and reaffirming the
strongest declaration of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. In
1861 Wendell Phillips said at New Bedford: ' Here are a series of
States girdling the Gulf who think their peculiar institutions
require that they should have a separate government. They have a
right to decide that question without appealing to you or to me.'
Horace Greely, in the Tribune, three days after Mr. Lincoln's elec-
tion, wrote: 'If the cotton States shall become satisfied ihat they
can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them
go in peace. The right to secede may still be a revolutionary one,
but it exists nevertheless. We must ever resist the right of any
State to remain in the Union, and nullify or defy the laws thereof.
To withdraw from the Union is quite another matter, and whenever
a considerable section of the Union shall deliberately resolve to go
out we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in.
We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned
to another by bayonets.' Such declarations were persisted in after
the secession of several States, and until after Mr. Lincoln's inaug-
uration. Elsewhere in the 'Southern States and the American
Union,' pages 119-128, it has been shown by unquestioned authority,
that from 1795 to 1815, and in 1845, there was an influential party
in New England who favored the formation of a Northern Confed-
eracy.

" Having followed me in the treatment of the assigned topic,
may I not crave equally patient attention, while I submit some
thoughts on our present condition, and suggest some duties as
American citizens, especially obligatory on us as the amnestied
survivors of the ' Lost Cause?' Let me, however, in advance, vindi-
cate history from two or three persistent misrepresentations.

" The Southern States deprecated was; desired peace; offered
negotiations; had nothing to gain, everything to lose by armed
hostilities, and accepted the ultima ratio regum, when forts in harbors
were occupied with bristling cannon, and troops were called for to
coerce into submission.

" In this presence it would be superfluous to say that to carry on
a war, offensive or defensive, for a series of years, is far more than
fighting a battle, winning victories, sustaining defeats. Quartermaster,
subsistence, ordnaflce, pay and medal departments, are necessary to
meet the wants of men brought together in large numbers,
for the effective fighting power of an army, ' and the talent to
satisfy these with order, economy, intelligence, forms the science of
administration.' Troops must be procured, supplied with shelter,
food and clothing, armed, transported, paid, cared for when sick or
wounded, and everything possible is to be provided for their strength,

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health, spirit, effectiveness. To make the best possible use of forces
in the field, after they are raised, it is necessary (o provide with effi-
cient means of transport and a well arranged system of supply, and
these the North had superabundantly, in addition to her active busi-
ness, open ports, plenty of money, greater population, and an inex-
haustible and available European supply of men. Equipment and
supplies were rarely hindered by lack of transportation. Probably
among the most maiktd features connected with the supply of tbe
Federal armies, were the use of the ocean, of railroads and navigable
river?, and the facility with which d<pots could be and wtre changed
so as to be always in touch with the armies in all their various move-
ments. The extent of the base of operations, or the portion of coun-
try from which reinforcements and supplies could be obtained, gave
the armies great advantage in selecting lines of invasion exempt from
interception when defeated. Jackson in 1862 flanked Pope and cut him
off from the upper Potomac, but could not prevent him from reaching
Alexandria. In 1863 when Grant was baffled on the Rapidan, he
changed his base as he moved around successively to the Pamunkey and
the James. The country commanding a sea is only limited as to the
amount of stores it can transport by the capacity of the vessels it has
at command. The Quartermaster Department had in charge during
the war, on ocean and lakes, 399 vessels, having a gross tonnage
13,706 tons, and there were 238 vessels employed in the lake and
ocean service, having a tonnage of 165,248 tons, which were owned
by the government. There were 119 steamers, 305 barges, and 109
coal drayage boats and floats belonging to the United States on the
Mississippi river and its tributaries and at Mobile. Besides these,
the Quartermaster Department had chartered for the same waters
1750 steamers and other vessels. The theatre of war was largely
bounded by the Altantic and Gulf coasts, and the supremacy on the
water made possible the capture of desirable points and the Penin-
sular campaign. The supply of armies operating against Richmond
was feasible only because of the monopoly of the sea. Wellington is
reported to have said in the Spanish campaign that an army moved
upon its belly. Food and transportation enter largely into every
military campaign. One depot at Giesboro, D. C., had a capacity of
supplying 30,000 animals. During the first nine months of 1864 the
supply of horses by the Cavalry Bureau averaged about 500 per diem,
and the supply to Sheridan during his Shenandoah campaign was 150
per day. In 1862, 125,000 men, 14,592 animals, 44 batteries of artil-
lery, the wagons and ambulances, pontoon trains, and the enormous
equipage required for the Army of the Potomac, were transported in
about 900 steamers and sailing craft. During Grant's campaign
against Richmond a large fleet was constantly employed in supplying
troops at various stations along the coast from Chesapeake to New
Orleans. From May 1st to August 12, 1864, the daily average num-
ber of rations forwarded from Chattanooga to Sherman's army, which
numbered about 105,000, was 412,000, more than three rations for
every man that left Chattanooga on that campaign, In 1864 Grant's

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wagon train would have extended from the Bapidan to Richmond if
marched in single file upon one road. (Journal of the Military Serv-
ice Institution. Jan. 1896, pp. 45-95.)

"What a contrast to the Southern array, half clad, half fed, half
armed, without any adequate supply of the needed transport, of the
needed medical staff, of the needed engineers for bridging, for tele-
graph wOrk and other engineer duties, with few depots of supply,
and a gradually contracting area of territory shut off from the sea by
a rigorous blockade. It is a notorious fact that our army at various
stages of the war relied largely on the captures from the enemy for
clothing, food, wagons, ammunition, guns and other necessary sup-
plies. General Banks was habitually spoken of in the Valley as
'General Jackson's Commissary-General.' For two or more years the
government levied a tax in kind, and corn, wheat, oats, bacon, mules,
etc., were supplied by this method. In the last years of the war, a
long railway between Meridian and Richmond, over 800 miles, with
dilapidated equipments, furnished the single line of transportation
for army and supplies. For repairs of waste and loss in rails, loco-
motives, and other needful means, there was hardly the pretence of
establishments, and one such line as the Pennsylvania, or the Balti-
more and Ohio, has to-day more ample and readier facilities and
more abundant resources than the whole Confederacy then possessed.

"General Gordon, on April 22, 1896, writes to me:

" 'You are quite right. Every expedient was resorted to. Offi-
cers were detailed, and men, when necessary, to catch fish, when the
season permitted. Summoned all the commissaries of my command,
from corps commissaries to regimental commissaries, before me and
told each that he must send out wagons into the country, into North
Carolina, to get in small quantities of supplies to keep the men from
starving. We had to take the risk of getting wagons captured, be-
cause we could not stand still. You can describe the wagons of
regiment, brigade, division and corps roaming over the country in
the byways, etc., hunting for anything that would fill the craving
stomachs of the soldiers. But we depended, also, on living off the
enemy by capturing supplies.'

"As a result of the military necessities of the war, the inability
otherwise to conquer the seceding States, even with the purchased
'Hessians' of overcrowded trans-Atlantic cities, slavery was abolished
by a stroke of the pen, a decree of the Commander-in-Chief. Of the
manner and haste of the emancipation, I say nothing. But I am
sure that I voice the sentiment of every Confederate soldier, when I
say, thank God, African slavery no longer exists in the South. With
emancipation and our surrender came the enfranchisement of the
negroes and the horrors of reconstruction. The recital of this his-
tory is hot germane to this occasion. There is no wish or purpose
now, or at any future time, to reverse the decision of the arbitrament
of war in reference to slavery or secession. Both, by Federal and by
State action, have been forever settled. We are as jealous of the

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reputation of the flag — our flag — as the citizens of any other section,
and should war come, which may God avert ! a war not for freeboot-
ing acquisition of our neighbor's territory, not for the selfish greed
of men who have sheltered themselves under naturalization to prose-
cute schemes of rebellion or monopolies in trade, not for the pouring
of a black tide of unassimilative and undesirable material into the
mass of our citizenship, but for the protection of the rights and prop-
erty of any true American, for the vindication of National honor, then
under the leadership of our Gordon, our Lees, Pettus, Shelly, Hoke,
Hampton, Wheeler, and such like, our boys will hew their way as far
to the forefront, into the serried ranks of the country's foes, as heroes
ever did or dared.

"Since the surrender of our armies there has not been a single
instance, within the limits of the Southern States, against the author-
ity of the Government, although a part of the time the people have
been without civil magistrates and writhing under the crudest injus-
tice and violence. There has been no manifestation of a tendency to
conflict with the uational authority, no purpose to dibturb the terms
of the surrender and no aspirations outside the limits of the Union.
The new amendments to the Constitution, coercively adopted, are not
less inviolable and authoritative than the original compact as ratified
by the States. (Lamar's Calhoun, 170-171.)

"In reaffirming our loyalty, candor demands that we should not
use ambiguous phrase. We are far from making a half-hearted
apology, or interposing sincerity, or honesty of belief as a palliation
for the Confederacy. We rest our cause and conduct on no such
humiliation. Our property was a guaranteed right, with the privi-
leges of all other property and some additional securities. In 1861
secession was a reserved right of the States, and no proposition is log-
ically and historically more demonstrable. It was not an afterthought,
a suddenly improvised remedy, invented for the occasion. The right
was a faith received from the fathers, an irresistible inference from
colonial independence, from Articles of Confederation, the sepa-
rate action of the States in framing and ratifying the Consti-
tution, from the limitations in that instrument, from its silence,
from the reserved and undelegated powers, from repeated reaffirma-
tion in most solemn and authoritative form. Amid all the perversions
of history, scandalous attacks upon motives and actions of men and
parties and States, no one has been found bold enough, ignorant
enough, unscrupulous enough, to assert that the seceding States took
the Government by surprise, or adopted a course of action which was
furtive and unexpected. I was in the House of Representatives,
December, 1860, when the wires announced that South Carolina had
revoked her ratification of the Constitution and resumed her dele-
gated powers and the control of the paramount allegiance of her citi-
zens. While some weak ones treated the grave matter with ridicule,
there was not a Representative or Senator, or an intelligent person in
the United States, who did not know that the creed of State rights and
State remedies had been as openly and freely and fully proclaimed
as any other political doctrine.

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" Now this has been entirely changed. The claim of the right of
secession is abandoned, having been eliminated from the American
Governments. The fourteenth amendment has revolutionized the
character of our political system. That declares that all persons
born within the limits of the United States are citizens. In conse-
quence of this constitutional provision, one is now a citizen of the
United States and as such must render obedience to National
law, Prior to that amendment, one was a citizen of the United
States only by virtue of his citizenship in a particular State, and
primary and paramount allegiance was due to that State. When
she spake, her voice was sovereign, aud to disobey was rebellion or
treason. So thought and said General Lee. When before the Recon-
struction Committee at Washington, he was asked whether he felt that
he had been guilty of treason, promptly, firmly and rightly he answered,
'No,' because he owed his allegiance to the State of Virginia of
which he was a citizen. So thought Albert Sidney Johnson when he
came from California to place sword and honor and life at the will of
Texas. So thought Joseph E. Johnston, Commodore Maury, Bishop
Polk, and all our soldiers and civilians. Hence the men who fought
and the men who fell, fought and fell in a just cause. They fell in
defence of the Constitution as it came from the hands of the fathers,
in defence of home rule and State rights. They were not traitors nor
rebels, but right in adhering to the old landmarks, in resisting coer-
cion, conquest and subjugation, as we are right now in standing by
the amended Constitution and against the doctrine of secession.
When the Constitution declares that I am a citizen of the United
States, and that the laws apply to me individually, and that the
Federal Government may determine the measure of its power over
the States and the people, my allegiance is due to the Government of
the United States and not to Virginia. The changed or amended Con-
stitution, accepted by the States, has consigned the doctrine of
secession to the tomb of the Capulets, and we have one Flag, one
Constitution, one Union, one National Government, one Destiny.

" The survivors of the Lost Cause can make good their assevera-
tions of loyalty to the Republic by observing in strictest fidelity the
letter and spirit of the Constitution. It is safe to affirm, for no one
will gainsay, that a dissatisfaction on the part of the South with the
Constitution as a whole, or in anyone of its parts, or with any of the
powers conferred on the Federal Government, did not influence in the
remotest degree the secession of the States. Individually, as a
Southern man and a Confederate soldier, I have felt that my highest
duty to my section since the struggle ended, was to restore
fraternity of spirit as well as political association. This duty to the
South, and to the Union, was best discharged by laboring for free,
universal education (for the free school is the corner-stone of any
New South), by devotion to the best interests of the whole country,
by demonstrating that the interests of every State, and the honor
of the flag, are as safe in the hands of a Confederate as of a Union

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soldier, and by a steady advocacy of national issues, great and
broad enough to efface sectionalism. The struggle against a war
tariff, and the Chinese policy of shutting off foreign markets for our
surplus products, and thus preventing reciprocal amity between
nations, was not only a fight for a wise and true national policy, but
the use of that question served to obliterate geographical lines arid
to nationalize political parties. Nothing can be greater folly than.'
for the Southern people to take up false destructive issues, assault-
ing the foundations of private and public credit, weakening finan-
cial integrity and rectitude, and condemning us to an inferiority
and to less influence than we have ever before reached.

" The New South is to reclaim and adopt the scheme of Jeffer-
son. Jefferson and Calhoun were the most profound and philo-
sophical statesmen of our country, and Jefferson outlined a most
comprehensive scheme for Virginia, including the University,
colleges and public schools under public control, sustained by
taxation; and he said that 'A system of general instruction, which
shall reach every description of our citizens from the richest to the
poorest, as it was the earliest, so it will be the latest of all the pub-
lic concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.'
(Letters to J. C. Cabell, Jan. 14, 1818; Jan. 13, 1823). Whatever of
prosperity, of power, of glory, the New South may aspire to is
inseparably connected with the free school. All other means are
vain if this be wanting. If, in the future, judicial interpretation
and congressional usurpation make as many encroachments upon
the Constitution as in the last hundred years, then written guaran-
tees will be impotent for protection, and our chief, reliance must be
on the intelligence and virtue of the people. The South has made
an imperishable record of patriotism by what she has done for the
education of white and of black children. President Angell, of the
University Michigan, frankly says: 'Out of the very depths of a
misery and a poverty, which we in the North cannot begin to
understand, they have taken up these great ideas of public educa-
tion, and have taxed themselves with a generosity which we cannot
but admire, for the education both of the white and of the black.'

" We can be fair and do justice, and more than justice to the
negroes, accepting the condition, as to citizenship and suffrage
which were imposed as punishment upon us and to transfer civil
and political power from us to them We cannot live as enemies, or
we will end in ruin. We should encourage trust and confidence i
between the races. The attempt to reverse all the teachings of^
history and ethnology has reacted on the perpetrators of the wrong
and their allies and there can be now no question as to who will
rule in these Southern States. Happily for the negro, his best
friends are in control of the machinery of the State governments,
and history has no parallel to the magnanimity and sacrifices of the
impoverished and imperiled South in furnishing him ' without
money and without price' the facilities of a common school educa-
tion. The brutal lynching, the torture and the burning of negroes/

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charged with an unmentionable crime, is a stigma upon the white
race, upon Southern civilization. Such swift and unnecessary
punishment is wholly unnecessary, as the fiends could not go
unwhipped of justice, and it reacts with terrible rebound upon
those who participate and approve, in brutalizing conscience and
engendering contempt for the authority of law and of government.
Let us be —

" Swift-footed to uphold the right

And to uproot the wrong."

Distinguished by a homogeneous population, by consistent
observance of laws, constitution and treaties, by strict non-
intervention in foreign affairs, and by a most careful absti-
nence from interference with others' rights and property, let
us give no council nor support to anarchy, or those theories which
result in unrestrained democracy, which is tyranny in its worst shape,
showing no respect for rights of property, or personal liberty, or the
guarantees of law. Freedom consists in keeping willingly within the
limits traced by law and order and justice — the only securities for
innocence, good government and personal liberty — and anything out-
side is not freedom, but license and, in the end, abject servitude. We
must resist that sophism which identities liberty with the unchecked
domination of majorities as if 'count of heads was the Divine Court
of Appeals on every question and interest of mankind.' John Stuart
Mill said wisely: 'Experience proves that depositaries of power, who
are mere delegates of the people, that is of a majority, are quite as
ready when they think they can count on popular support as any
organ of oligarchy to assume arbitrary power, and encroach unduly
on the liberty of private life.' Moreover, we need no encouragement^
of trend to consolidation by endowing national universities, by annex-
ation of territory with increase of African or Hawaian citizenship, by
an influx of heterogeneous and immiscible population, by establishing
remote provinces which would be utterly alien to our institutions and
to representative government.

"Comrades, you and your associates were noble in war; never
in human history more patient endurance, more heroic deeds, greater
personal valor. Let us be nobler in peace. What occurred in the
field and the camp is not the highest glory. You were distinguished
for religion in camp, for respect for civil authority, for temperance,
for intelligence, for the most brilliant military achievements ever
wrought against such odds and with such scant and unequal means.
When the flag was furled and paroles were accepted, you resumed
agricultural, mechanical, mining, professional pursuits. Your coun-
try was laid waste, houseless chimneys marked the devastated track
of the ruthless invader. These were material losses, but what were
they compared with the decimation of families by disease and battle,
with the privation of what constitutes the very warp and woof of
being. The real treasure is not in the coffers, but in the soul. It is
that which we are that enters into the substance of character. The
country was a desolation, every home was a Bochim with sad-eyed

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widows and mothers, with hearts no more to be illumined with joy.
Everwhere were the siaades of the uuretmued ones, keeping solemn
march to "Away Down South in Dixie," an I uoiding iu fleshless hands
the tattered, bullet-riddled banners. There were the silver-Laired,
with cheeka furrowed by salt tears, kneeling crushed at the graves or
before the pictures of tne manly and the brave who went out with
blessing and came no more home again.

"All who died were not struck by shot and shell,
Some hearts grew still because they loved so well."

" There were hopes blasted and horizons blackened by remedi-
less despair. These were bitterer experiences than ever came from
loss of earthly possessions. It was under such circumstances that
life was begun anew, and there was never such marvelous adapted-
ness to the revolutionized and unprecedented conditions. All had
been lost. After the war with Germany, France paid an indemnity
of $1,000,000,000. Our loss in life and in property was greater
than hers. Hope and confidence are returning. Our land begins
again to blossom. Churches and schools are open. The complexi-
ties and difficulties of the severest problem ever encountered by
civilization and Christianity are beginning to yield to patient solu-
tion. With all that is regretable in our present condition, we still
have our own local governments, what remains of a glorious con-
stitution, the inspiration of free institutions, the wealth of incal-
culable possibilities, the stimulating memories of an immortal past,
the beckoning impulses of an opening future. We need no discord,
no nursing of the injustice and the wounds of the past, no prosper-
ing sectionalism, no separate, political existence. We need those
essential conditions upon which alone we can hope for a full share
in the councils and advantages of the Union . ■ Let us strive for a
grand, mighty, indivisible Republic, throwing its loving arms
around all sections, omnipotent for protection, powerless for oppres-
sion, cursing none, blessing all.' Our history is not wound up.
The means of greatness are still within our grasp. Let not our
heroes have died in vain. They bequeathed an example of lofty
patriotism, they gave us a place on a never-dying battle roll, and
the historian's pen, when not dipped in the gall of hate, gives due
credit to superhuman virtues of privates and officers. Nationality
is compounded in many elements, and, with true Americans, we
have a sense of community of race, of religion, of interest, of lan-
guage, of literature, of history, a single, political whole— an indis-
soluble Union of indestructible States— strong ties which bind in
fellowship and brotherhood. As men and citizens let us so live, in
private and in public station, that our descendants may be as proud
of us as we areof the noble men and nobler women of our perished
Confederacy. Noblesse oblige."

[Note. — The orator was applauded enthusiastically all through his magnifi-
cent address, notice ot which is omitted, at points where it occurred, as it would
interfere with its reading and mar its classic beauty. — Adjutant General.]

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Judge George L. Christian, of Richmond, Va., then offered the
following:

Resolved, That the hearty thanks of these Confederate Veterans
be tendered Comrade Curry for his able, eloquent and very valua-
ble historic address. And also offered an amendment that it be
printed in our minutes and that our Adjutant be requested to
circulate at least 10,000 copies of it.

The resolution not being fully understood amidst the confusion,
General Gordon announced that he would read the resolution
again, and said, an amendment has been offered and accepted that
the address be published in our proceedings, the Chair receives
with unbounded pleasure the assurance that it is hardly worth
while to submit this resolution; but I submit it, that your hearts
may respond to a brother's; and as a contribution also, to the elo-
quent tribute given to your past, and the still more eloquent pledge
made by your comrade to youf assured future.

This resolution received the heartiest approval from the con-
vention and was adopted amid much enthusiasm.

General Jackson, of Tennessee, announced by request that
Company A, of the Memphis Confederate Veterans, wearing their
same old war worn uniforms, would give an exhibition drill at
noon that day at the base-ball park, for the benefit of a fund for
the erection of a monument to "the Wizard of the Saddle," General
N. B. Forrest, and requested all to attend.

General Bulger, of Alabama, a veteran ninety-two years old,
who at this stage of the proceedings had entered the hall, was then
invited to take a seat on the platform.

The Chair then said there is a very large amount of very im-
portant business and called the regular order of business, consist-
ing of the presentation of the various reports.

The Chair said the first report submitted will be General S. D.
Lee's, commanding Army of Tennessee Department. Before the
reading clerk commenced, General S D. Lee made a motion that
the reading of all reports be dispensed with, except the Adjutant
General's, which was very valuable and necessary, which was carried.

TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT.

General Stephen D. Lee submitted the following annual report
of the army of the Department of Tennessee, which was adopted:

Headquarters of Army of Tennessee Department, )

United Confederate Veterans. >-

Columbus, Miss., May 30, 1896. )

Major-General George Moorman, Adjutant-General and Chief of
Staff, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, La.
General — Pursuant to the requirements of the constitution of

our federation, I have the honor to submit the following annual

report with regard to the discharge of the duties incumbent upon

me as lieutenant-general commanding.

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By virtue of my election by the Convention of the United Con-
federate Veterans held at Houston, Texas, May 22-24, 1895, and the
subsequent promulgation by the general commanding of the con-
stitution adopted at said convention, the u idersigned on February
24, 1896, issued his General Order No. 1, t^suniing command of the
"Army of Tennessee Department." In said order he enumerated
among other important matters to come before this annual
convention the laying of the corner-stone of the Mausoleum to be
erected by the loving hands of fair women and brave men to the
memory of our illustrious dead chieftain the immortal Jefferson
Davis, likewise, the determination of the details of the South's Bat-
tle Abbey, and earnestly invited attention to the magnitude and
growing importance of our federation and the duty of all comrades
who coiild conveniently do so, to attend said reunion.

On said day I issued General Order No. 2, announcing my staff,
to serve during my term of office or pleasure. They are as follows:

Brigadier-General E. T. Sykes, of Columbus, Miss., adjutant-
general and chief of staff.

Colonel W. H. Rogers, of New Orleans, La., inspector-general.

Colonel H. C. Myers, of Memphis, Tenn , quartermaster-general.

Colonel E. L. Russell, of Mobile, Ala., commissary-general.

Colonel W. L. Calhoun, of Atlanta, Ga., judge advocate-general.

Colonel W. J. McMurray, of Nashville, Tenn., surgeon-general.

Colonel W. S. Penick, of Shreveport, La., chaplain-general.

Colonel Tully Brown, of Nashville, Tenn., aide-de-camp.

Colonel J. Henry Martin, of Memphis, Tenn., aide-de-camp.

Colonel Richard E. Jones, of Birmingham, Ala., aide-de-camp.

Colonel Frank P. O'Brien, of Birmingham, Ala , aide-de-camp.

Colonel R. M. Howard, of Georgia, aide-de-camp.

Colonel C. M. Wiley, of Macon, Ga.. aide-de-camp.

Colonel L. L. Middlebrooks, of Covington, Ga., aide-de-camp.

Colonel G. D. Sands, of Oxford, Miss., aide-de-camp.

Colonel Thomas Harrison, of Columbus, Miss., aide-de-camp.
Colonel John H. Stone, of Clinton, La., aide-de-camp.
Colonel B. F. Eshleman, of New Orleans, La., aide-de-camp.
Colonel A. J. Russell, of Jacksonville, Fla., aide-de-camp.
Colonel Jeptha V. Harris, Key West, Fla., aide-de-camp.
In General Order No, 3, under date of March 25, 1896, Colonel
George M. Helm, of Greene ville, Miss, was announced as aide-de-
camp.

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On May 18th last, General Order No. 4, from the headquarters
of this department was issued, announcing the contemplated details
of and the railroad rates to the reunion, and repeating with urgency
the request that all comrades attend the same. On the same day,
Special Order No. 2, giving special directions to the department
staff, as their attendance on, and duties at the convention, was issued
and promulgattd.

The following roster embraces the names of the division com-
manders and their adjutant-generals in the Army of Tennessee De-
partment, as organized February 24, 1896, and existing at this date:
Alabama — Major-General Fred. S. Ferguson, commanding, Bir-
mingham, Ala; Colonel Harvey E. Jones, Adjutant-General and chief
of staff, Montgomery, Ala.

Florida — Major-General J. J. Dickison, commanding, Ocala,
Fla. ; Colonel Fred. L. Robertson, Adjutant-General and chief of
staff, Brooksville, Fla.

Georgia— Major-General Clement A. Evans, commanding, At-
lanta, Ga.; Colonel Andrew J. West, Adjutant-General and chief of
staff, Atlanta, Ga.

Louisiana — Major-General W. G. Vincent, commanding, New
Orleans, La.; Colonel J. A. Chalaron, Adjutant-General and chief
of staff, New Orleans, La.

Mississippi — Major-General W. D. Holder, commanding, Jack-
son, Miss.; Colonel S. B. Watts, Adjutant-General and chief of staff,
Meridian, Miss.

Tennessee — Major-General W. H. Jackson, commanding, Nash-
ville, Tenn. ; Colonel John P. Hickman, Adjutant-General and chief
of staff, Nashville, Tenn.

Though I am without a report from but one of the division
commanders, I have reason to believe — at least, hope — that their
several duties, as prescribed in Article 3, Section 3, of our Consti-
tution, have been faithfully discharged.
All of which is respectfully submitted.

S. D. LEE,

Lieutenant- General Commanding.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT.

Adjutant General Geo. Moorman here submitted his annual
report, which was read and unanimously adopted. It is as follows:

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans,
Richmond, Va., June 30, 1896

General John B. Gordon, Commanding U. C. Vs.:

General — I have the honor to make a report of the growth of
the organization of the United Confederate Veterans, which cannot
but be gratifying to you and to our comrades.

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At the date that I had the honor of commencing the work of
organizing camps under your appointment as Adjutant General and

Chief-of-Staff, now a little over four years, there were only thirty-
three camps, now there are 856, distributed as follows:

Texas 214

Alabama 88

South Carolina 76

Missouri 70

Mississippi 60

Georgia 55

Arkansas 52

Louisiana . 51

Kentucky 37

Florida , 30

Virginia 30

Tennessee 29

North Carolina 29

Indian Territory 11

Maryland 6

Oklahoma 5

New Mexico 3

Illinois 2

Montana 2

West Virginia 3

Indiana ....... 1

District of Columbia 1

California 1

Totals 856

camps with at least two hundred camps known to be in process of
organizing.

The following membership fee and per capita tax received since
my last report made at Houston, Texas, $2,995 25, with total expen-
ditures to date of $2,910.60, leaving balance on hand of $84.65,
itemized statement of which is attached hereto and which will be
published in full in the proceedings of the Convention, which will be
issued as soon as possible after the close of the convention, and the
Association does not owe one cent.

"When I commenced work, there was practically no funds on
hand, and I advanced the necessary amount to pay for printing,
postage, stationery, etc., to start the organization' of camps, since
which time, by doing most of the work myself, and by the most
rigid economy, I have succeeded in sending out the vast amount of
literature, etc, with the proceeds of the membership fee and per
capita, but in doing so, I have had to curtail the printing and other
expenses, and perform most of the labor myself, so as to keep
within bounds. As is customary with all new organizations of this
character, there being so many details and explanations has made
the work very laborious.

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SPLENDID RECORD.

This office has sent out up to date:

General and special orders 259,500

Circulars to newspapers, etc., mimeograph, etc. . . .150,500

Circular letters for organization 87,000

Mimeograph letters to camps 165,000

Commissions 5,200

Pamphlet proceedings of the three reunions...... 4,800

Charters to date 852

Sundry circulars and documents .136,078

Receipts for commissions, charters, orders, ad-
dresses, etc 10,700

Letters and circulars received 25,100

Letters written and sent out 35,000

870,730
Making a total of three quarters of a million letters, orders, circu-
lars, packages, etc., sent out and received since I have been Adju-
tant General.

It has now become a vast bureau, with an enormous accumula-
tion of books and papers, and to carry on the business with cor-
rectness and facility requires a room with an area of fully forty to
one hundred feet.

The Adjutant General's Department is now fully supplied with
a complete outfit of all necessary books, blanks, stationery, etc.
There is a complete registry kept of all commissions, charters, and
everything sent out of the office, and a receipt required for the
same, which is kept on file. The books of the office show a record
of everything done.

Every Southern State is now represented in the list of camps.
In the organization of so many new camps, I have, of course, en-
countered many difficulties, but I am happy to say there has been
no friction with the Adjutant General's office in any quarter, but the
utmost harmony has prevailed.

I deem it my duty to point out such measures as my corres-
pondence and information received in the Adjutant General's office,
suggest as important for you to know.

One is the urgent necessity for a department of the North to
be officered by an active and influential Major General. It seems
to me that the purpose so frequently stated in general orders from
these headquarters, "the care of the graves of our known and
unknown dead buried at Gettysburg, Fort Warren, Camps Morton,
Chase, Douglas, Oakwood Cemetery, at Chicago; Johnson's Island,
Cairo, and at all other points, to see that they are annually decora-
ted, and headstones preserved and protected, and complete lists of
our dead heroes, witn the location of their last resting-place
furnished to their friends and relatives through the medium of our
camps thus rescuing their names from oblivion and handing them
down in history should be sacredly carried out.

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FITTING TRIBUTE,

The great good accomplished by Major General John C. Under-
wood, in furnishing to these headquarters the names and location
of the graves of our comrades buried at the places named above,
and through his wonderful ability, high order of patriotism and
great pecuniary loss to him, as well as an expenditure of time and
labor of such magnitude that it can scarcely be arrived at, in build-
ing the beautiful monument at Oakwood Cemetery, at Chicago, to
the " Confederate dead," is an eloquent reason why this department
should be revived, and the philanthropic purpose of the United
Confederate Veterans, so worthily and grandly carried out during
General Underwood's administration be continued.

These thoughts are mainly inspired through the generous
action of an ex-Northern soldier (a farmer, I believe), who in a
letter to these headquarters, from Columbus, O., calls attention to
the dilapidated and neglected condition of the enclosure around
some Confederate graves near Columbus, O., and in a spirit of
fraternity and comradeship which shows that a magnanimous and
brave heart beats in his breast, offers to mow the grass, repair the
fences and dress the graves of his former foes into shapely mounds,
at his own expense, if only authorized to do so.

It is our sacred duty, and the dictates of honor require that we,
the living, shall keep green the memory and the graves of those of
our heroes whose arms are nerveless, and whose families many of
them are helpless, who are sleeping so far away from homes and
kindred, and I respectfully recommend that a Department of the
North be created at once, a suitable commander be selected,
and the grand work so ably and patriotically started by General
Underwood be actively continued.

No formal report has been made to this body of the completion
of that grand Confederate monument in Oakwood Cemetery, at
Chicago, 111., which " sentinels the bivouac of the dead," —
"Our Dead'' — who will sleep forever upon the shores of
the great lake, within the hospitable gates of the peerless
city of the Northwest. Nor has any greeting been sent by this
body to that magnanimous city, which shelters " our dead" upon
her bosom, and which, with so much grace and hospitality, wel-
comed the Confederate survivors to witness the consecration of this
historical memorial; nor has any action been taken to express the
appreciation of the Veterans for the great ability, unselfish labor
and high order of patriotism, worthy of emulation, shown by Major
General Underwood in his noble work.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS. •

I would recommend legislation at this session which will provide
at once for the formation of Sons and Daughters of Veterans into
separate national organizations, prescribing plans and forms for
immediate organization, and the appointment by the general com-
manding at this body of the first president or commander of each

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association, they to be made auxiliary, and to report to the U. C.
V.'s, and the members of each organization to pay a per capita tax of
five cents per annum into the U. C. V. treasury. This is urgent from
the mournful fact that our ranks are thinning daily, and our beloved
representatives should step in now and arrange to take charge of
Southern history, our relics, mementoes and monuments, and stimu-
late the erection of other monuments to our heroes, ere " taps" are
sounded for the last of their fathers.

I would suggest that a clause be enacted, giving members hold-
ing proxies the right to vote when held by a member of any Camp in
the division. This I think necessary, on account of the long dis-
tance which frequently separates the Veterans from the reunion, and
their old age, infirmities, and often straightened circumstances
entitles them to this character of representation from their more
fortunate comrades.

I would suggest that the clause making the charge of $1.00 for
commissions mandatory be changed so that commissions must be sent
to all officers of Camps and staff, leaving it to their option to remit if
they feel able to do so.

As Section 1, Article 5, of the Constitution is ambiguous, I
would suggest that the clause, " and one additional one for a fraction
of ten members," be changed to read "twenty."

I would suggest that in all cases where the Constitution fixes the
rank of staff officers, that it be changed to read, " with rank not less
than," for the reason that frequently officers are appointed whose
rank was higher in the Confederate army, and there seems to be no
good reason why their rauk should be arbitrarily lowered.

I deem it proper in some official manner to express thanks to the
entire press of the South for the generous assistance unifoimly
rendered me in my duties as Adjutant General, and can, without
invidious comparison, especially mention the great New Orleans
dailies— the Times Democrat, Picayune and States — all if which, on
account of being where the permanent headquarters are located,
have done many thousands of dollars of gratuious work for the U. C.
V.'s; and their generous aid given the U. C. V.'s in its infancy and
all along the weary miles of its growth, I can truthfully say has
more than anything else helped me in my labors in building up the
association to its present proportion.

In conclusion, I desire to say that I feel proud to place my
report in your hands, showing the great advance the organization has
made under your leadership and direction, and at the same time I
desire to greet and thank the Veterans from all the States who have
been in correspondence with the Adjutant General's office, and who
have shown me so much consideration and courtesy.

Respectfully submitted,

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Stoff.

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General S D. Lee moved the adoption of the repoit and all of
its suggestions, which was unanimously carried.

GENERAL UNDERWOOD.

General Lee here also moved that the rules be suspended in
order that the constitution be so amended as to re-establish the De-
partment of the Northwest, heretofore so ably managed by General
John C. Underwood, and which bad been abolished by the new Con-
stitution. The motion was seconded. The Chair said, is the conven-
tion ready for Uhe_" question; when the motion was put and unani-
mously carried.

The Chair then said, there being no objection the ayes have it
and the Department is restored .

General J. A. Chalaron of Louisiana, then said: Mr. President
I find I am too late, but these proceedings are all wrong, as under
the Constitution notice, should have been sent out 90 days in advance
of this meeting. Under tbe rules which govern us, and unless unan-
imous consent be given, the Constitution cannot be changed at a
Reunion.

I am opposed Mr. President to any proceeding, not in conformity
with the Constitution we are working under, and I for one enter my
protest against any violation of it.

The Chair said: The vote upon the change of Constitution can-
not be by majority, but only by unanimous consent. All other
motions of order, proceedings, aduption of resolutions, of course, are
carried ;or defeated by majority, but the Constitution can only be
changed in these Reunions by unanimous'consent.

General Cabell then said that it would probable be better to have
the 90 days clause repealed.

It was ^then moved and seconded further action as to the
re-establishment of the Department of the North be postponed until
more time can be^given to the subject.

The Chair: Are you ready fur_the*question. A delegate from
North Carolina moved that the matter be referred to a sub-committee.

General Cabell then said he thought it was better to wait until
more time could be given to the subject.

The Chair. The substitute is in order.

The Chair. A motion to refer the matter of the re-organization
of that department to a committee is also in order, as is the substi-
tute by the comrade from North Carolina.

General Chalaron. I again repeat that 90 days notice to each
camp. is required^by the ^Constitution^and it cannot be done other-
wise; no committee can act upon it.

Delegate from North Carolina. This is a very important matter
and before it is disposed of I think it should be thoroughly discussed
and understood.

The Chair. By submitting to the convention any question in
relation to the constitution two-thirds of the delegates present at the

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annual meeting of this Federation can make eliminations and amend-
ments to it, provided that notice and a copy of^tLe proposed change
shall have been sent out 90 days previous to the meeting.

That while a vast majority of this meeting would evidently be
glad to see that department restored, we cannot, as lojal citizens, as
law-abiding citizens, violate our own constitution any more than we
would the constitution of our country. The Chair, therefore, decides
these proceedings out of order, because of the objection made, and
because of the constitution itself.

Delegate from North Carolina. I hereby give notice that I will
offer at the next Annual Reunion an amendment lestoring the estab-
lishment of a Department of the North. And I will, therefore, offer
this resolution at our next Annual Reunion.

The Chair. The Constitution provides that a notice be sent out
three months in advance of a Reunion to every camp of the United
Confederate Veterans. If the comrade wishes now to recognize the
distinguished services of General Underwood, it is always in order to
offer a resolution of thanks.

General Chalaron, Mr. President —The great value of the magnifi-
cent labors performed by General Underwood, is known to us all, and
I move that he be invited to the stand.

The Chair: I hereby request Adjutant General Moorman and
General Chaloron to escort General Underwood to the stand.

"While waiting for General Underwood to reach the platform,
General Peyton Wise advanced to the front of the stage and said:
Mr. President aud my Comrades, I desire to moreMhat the Chair, our
beloved General Gordon, appoint a committee to wait upon Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, the widow of our dead President, and her daughter,
Mrs. Ha^es, and invite them to a seat upon the stage, in order that
this Convention might give them the honor due, which was carried by
acclamation.

The Chair appointed General Peyton Wise and Comrade Taylor
Ellyeon for this distinguished service.

By this time General Underwood had reached the stage, and the
Chair in introducing him, said:

'' I now introduce to you a man who has rescued from oblivion
more graves of Confederate soldiers buried on Northern soil than
any other Southern man."

General Underwood was greeted with loud applause as he ad-
vanced to the front of the platform. He began by saying:

" Mr. President and ^Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen — To say that
I am not glad to be here would be the veriest falsehood that could
be uttered from any| breast. ^The^first service I did, little or great,
was in the city of Richmond. The first vote I ever cast was in the
city of Richmond. I had to run away rom home, so to speak,
being the only man of my name from Kentucky who was in the
Southern Army. (Cheers).

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Continuing, he said: "It was ray misfortune to have been
captured about the middle of the war, and to have served in four
Northern prisons over a year, and the rest of the time as prisoner on
parole, as Mr. Stanton would not meet the overtures made by Mr.
Ould, of Virginia, for my exchange."

General Underwood here explained the manner in which he had
obtained government recognition to secure the four cannon captured
from Confederates, also the cannon balls which were placed at the
base of the ^rand Confederate monument, at Oakwoods, in Chicago,
built mainly through his patriotic labors.

General Underwood then explained the work he had done in
connection with the Confederate monument in Chicago, and the
noble work he had performed in caring for the graves of our dead
Comrades all over the North, and he was frequently interrupted by
applause. He then unfurled a flag tbat had been handed to him by
a young lady (Miss Grigsby) a short while before he came upon the
platform. The flag was of historic interest, having figured in the
war. General Underwood's allusion to the flag and his tribute to the
valor of the Southern soldier elicited hearty applause.

GENERAL UNDERWOOD'S FINAL REPORT OF
HIS ADMINISTRATION AND DEDICATION
OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENT
AT CHICAGO.

United Confederate Veterans, )

Division and Provisional Department Headquarters. J

Chicago, January 20th, 1896.
General John B. Gordon,

Commanding United Confederate Veterans.

Sir and Comrade: — I have the honor to make final report of the
condition of the Division and Department under my command, give
a synopsis of the statistics of Confederate soldiers who died in mili-
tary prisons and are buried in Northern soil, and especially herald
the procedures incidental to the erection and dedication of the monu-
ment to 6000 Southern soldiers whose remains are trenched in Oak-
woods Cemetery, Chicago.

Pursuant with powers originally granted by the ex-Confederate
Association of Chicago, Camp No. 8, United Confederate Veterans,
afterwards approved by yourself, as per orders and other official doc-
uments issued from the office of your, Adjutant-General, and by
authority delegated through subsequent election by the United Con-
federate Veteran federation itself, I recruited and organized into
Camps a large number of Confederate Veterans living east of the
Mississippi river within the limits of my Provisional Department,
collected and reported rosters of the Confederate dead buried in var-
ous Northern cemeteries.

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The general conditions of my Divisions, so widely separated, are
good, and have been referred to in detail iu ray biennial report under
date of April 20th, 1894, a-nd the mortuary lists, cemetery charts and
other data relating to deceased soldiers buried within the territorial
bounds of my command, which were given in part in said biennial
report and subsequently compiled more fully and published in sup-
plement thereto, are now revised and presented in final tabulation, as
follows:

WAR PRISON CEMETERIES.

REVISED NUMERICAL ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN MILITARY
PRISONS AND ARE BURIED IN NORTHERN SOIL.

ILLINOIS.

At Alton —

In the Confederate Cemetery, the military prison,

— dead; interments known and reported 1,578

Interments unknown, number reported 610 — 2,218

Camp Butler —

In the Confederate Cemetery, the military prison

— dead; interments known and reported 470

Chicago —

In Oakwoods Cemetery, the Camp Douglas prison

— dead ; interments known and reported (J. C.

U.'s official roster) 4,317

Interments known and reported (government

small pox roster) .... 412

Interments estimated as on registers burned in

1871 1,500— 6,229

Mound City — ■

In the National Cemetery, the military prison —
dead; interments reported (roster promised by
War Department) 34

Rock Island —

In the Confedrate Cemetery at arsenal, the mili-
tary prison— dead; interments known and re-
ported 1,960

Total in Illinois 10,911

INDIANA.
Indianapolis —

In Greenlawn Cemetery, the Camp Morton prison

— dead; interments unknown and reported 1,484

Total in Indiana 1,484

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MARYLAND.

Loudon Park —

In the National Cemetery, the military prison —
dead; interments unknown (statistics missing
but estimated at) 100

Point Lookout —

In the Confederate Cemetery, the military prison

dead ; interments known and reported ....... 3,445

Total in Maryland 3,545

NEW JERSEY.
*Finn's Point —

In the Confederate Cemetery, the Fort Delaware
prison — dead; interments reported (roster
should be in the War Department, but cannot
be found; and the number of deaths reported
seem to be too few) 1,434

Total in New Jersey 1,434

NEW YORK.

Elmira —

In Woodlawn National Cemetery, the military

prison — dead; interments known and reported 2,947

Long Island —

In Cypress Hills Cemetery, the military prison —

dead; interments known and reported 488

Total in New York 3.435

OHIO.

At Columbus —

In the Confederate and City Cemeteries, the
Camp Chase prison — dead; interments known
and reported (J. C. U.'s official roster) 2,161

Johnson's Island (Lake Erie, near Sandusky) —

In the Confederate Cemetery, the military prison
— dead; interments known and reported (J. C.
U.'s official roster) 206

Total in Ohio 2,367

PENNSYLVANIA.

At Philadelphia —

In the National Cemetery, principally, tne mili-
tary prison — dead; removed from Chester Rural
Cemetery and the Odd Fellows' Cemetery; in-
terments known and reported . 224

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Pittsburg —

In Alleghney Cemetery, the military prison— dead;

interments known and reported ... 15

Total in Pennsylvania 239

WISCONSIN.

At Madison —

In the Confederate burying plot of Cemetery, the
military prison — dead; interments reported
and rosters promised by War Department .... 137

Total in Wisconsin 137

.'}

Total number of interments deceased prisoners

reported 23,552

*(Offiaial Note). Kecord and Pension Office,

War Department,
Washington, January 17, 1896

General John C. Underwood, Chicago, 111.:

Many of the Confederate prisoners who died in confinement at
Fort Delaware were buried at Finn's Point, N. J., but no roster of
those buried there is known to be in existence. No record has been
found of any prison at Finn's Point, N. J., nor has anything been
found to show that any Confederate prisoners were ever confined at
that place.

By authority of the Secretary of War:

F. C. AINSWORTH,

Colonel U. S. Army, Chief of Office.

There are possibly 100 Confederate soldiers buried in the Soldiers'
Home National Cemetery at Washington, D. C , and doubtless an
aggregate of a few hundred more at other points, but the total of
such interments throughout the Department, recorded and unknown,
will not vary materially from the number reported above which will
approximate 24,000 (unless there were many more deaths at Fort
Delaware than reported.)

The mortuary rosters heretofore reported and filed with the Adju-
tant-General embrace the list of Confederate soldiers who died in
military prisons, and, besides recording their names, give dates of
deaths in all cases and, with few exceptions, the companies, regi-
mated, and States from whence the deceased hailed, so that it will be
an easy matter to ascertain desired information covered by such
records.

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The foregoing tabulated statements have been compiled from data
mainly furnished by the U. S. War Department, and, in no instance,
has the battlefield dead been considered.

Special reference is hereby made to the good condition of the
Confederate Cemetery at the Goverment arsenal near Rock Island,
111., and much praise and sincerest thanks are due to General D. W.
Flagler, Chief of Ordnance, U. S. A., for accomplishing such work.

MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATE DEAD AT CHICAGO.

In this connection I make synoptical reference to the construction
and dedication of the monument erected over the Southern dead buried
in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, and demonstrations incidental
thereto, giving below a classified account of receipts and expenditures,
balanced, aggregating on both credit and debit sheets nearly $25,000
(which would have amounted to a much larger sum, had my four
years' services and the value of the floral contributions from the
South been estimated), as follows:

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Classified Receipts.

To cash from Chicago and Northern

Sources $11,808 63

To cash and credit from the Southern Gran-
ite Co., and various Southern sources... 4,89G 63 — $16,705 26

To cash value of donations:

By the U. S .Government, of ordnance 3,500 00

By various railroads, of transportation 2,050 00

By Hotel and Palace Car Co., of enter-
tainment and accommodation 900 00

By sundry business firms, of printing,

etc 605 00

By the Cemetery Association, of work

and material 557 78

By credit from various sources, of ser-
vice, labor, and material 329 48— 7,942 26

Aggregate $ 24.647 52

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Classifed Expenditures.

By cash and exchange for erection of monu-
ment $ 10,000 00

By cash balance entry for value of cannon,

shot and shell 3,815 80

By cash balance entry for transportation,
sleeping car accommodation and hotel
entertainment of guests 2,950 00

By cash paid for banquets, martial music

and regimental incidentals 2,188 34

By cash and donation credit entries for

printing and publishing 1,390 85

By cash and donation credit entries for
grand stand, decorations, vocal music,
carriages, etc 994 00

By cash paid, account office and headquar-
ters, assistants, stationery, postage, tele-
grams, expressage, etc 961 18

By cash paid, account traveling expenses

and promotion 908 71

By cash and donation credit entries for
clearing, grubbing and pyramid founda ■
tions . 732 78

By cash and donation credit entries for re-
modeling statue, painting ordnance,
boxing for special assistance, and vari-
ous sundries 629 94

By cash in the hands of Colonel H. L. Turner
Secretary and Treasurer of Citizens'

Committee 75 92 —

Aggregate $ 24,647 52

By deducting the cash in the hands of the Secretary of the
Citizens' Committee from the aggregate ($24,647.52— $75.92), the
remainder of $24,571.60 will represent and cover the total outlay.

Note. — A detailed statement of bills receivable and payable,
under final audit, with copies of the certificates of their correctness
and approval are to be found in the addendum of my book.

The descriptive references to the ceremonial of the dedication,
reception of the Confederate Generals, and other Southern guests,
their entertainment by the good citizens of Chicago, Cincinnati, U. S.
Army officers at Fort Thomas, Ky., are made in the special work follow-
ing, which is also replete with' orations, poems, speeches and prayers
and embellished with engravings and etchings of the prominent
actors, other distinguished personages, the monument and its acces-
sories.

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The preface hereto constitutes a historic outline of my individual
and public actions prior to and under commission from you and the
Veteran Federation, relating to things pertinent to the United Con-
federate Veterans, the Confederate dead buried in the Northern
States and the general Northern-Southern movement toward estab-
lishing harmonious social and business relations between the two great
sections of the United States. This, together with the body of the
book and addendum, containing various documents for reference, to
prevent repetition, are referred to and herebj' made part of this
report as to matters applicable through the discharge of duties as-
signed, and otherwise considered admissible, because of conveying
information given in channels interesting to the South and its
people.

Thanking you both personally and officially for the numerous
courtesies extended, valuable assistance frequently rendered and fully
appreciating the confidence reposed in and favor shown me by your-
self, the ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, and the United
Confederate Veterans Association, generally, I remain,
Very truly and fraternally,

Your obedient servant,

JOHN C. UNDERWOOD,

Major-General Commanding.

The above report was received and adopted.

The Chair stated that the next order of business was the report
of Lieut. General W. L. Cabell, chairman of the Davis Monument
Committee.

THE DAVIS MONUMENT.

Reports of the United Confederate Veterans Committee and of the

Local Association.

General W. L. Cabell, of Texas, chairman of the Davis Monu-
ment Committee, laid before the Convention his report, which is in
these words:

Major General Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of U. C. V's, Richmond, Va.

My Dear General:

The Davis Monument Committee would respectfully submit the
following report concerning their work during the past year. At a
meeting of the joint committee of the Davis Monument Committee of
the United Confederate Veterans and the Board of Directors of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association, held in the hall of the House
of Delegates, Capitol Building, Richmond, Va , on June 29, 1896, at
8:30 P. M, the Committee on Design of the proposed memorial in
honor of President Jefferson Davis to be erected in Monroe Park, in
the citv of Richmond, submitted their report, recommending that the

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first prize for the best design be awarded to Mr. Percy Griffin, of
New York; that the second prize be awarded to Mr. Edgerton S.
Rogers, of Richmond, Va., and that the third prize be awarded to Mr.
William C. Noland, of Richmond, Va.

The joint committee unanimously adopted the recommendation
of the Committee on Design.

We submit herewith the report of Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, presi-
dent of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, and the report of
Mr. John S. Ellett, treasurer of the Jefferson Davis Monument Asso-
ciation, from which it will be seen that the balance on hand as
reported May I, 1895, was $12,551. 18; that there was received during
the year ending June 9, 1896, $4,919,31, making the total receipts to
that date $17,470.49. There was expended during the year $799.62,
leaving the balance on hand June 9, 1896, $16,670.87, which sum is
deposited in the State Bank, of Virginia, Richmond, Va., to the credit
of Mr. John S. Ellett, treasurer of the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association.

FUNDS FROM THE CAMPS.

A report in detail, showing the amounts contributed by the camps
in each State will be printed and a copy will be sent to all of the
camps connected with this organization. It is proper to add that
between $1,000 and $1,500 has been received since this report was
made out, and there are doubtless many other contributions which
will be handed in during this meeting.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, through their presi-
dent, Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Savanah, G-a., have given your committee
every assurance of their hearty co-operation in the work of building a
monument to our beloved and honored President, and we would grate-
fully acknowledge this desire on the part of these noble women to aid
us in our good work, and we cheerfully and gratefully accept their
offer.

Your committee has instructed the Board of Directors of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association, at Richmond, Va., to begin
at once the erection of the proposed memorial to Jefferson Davis, and
they have been authorized to lay the foundation and build the first
course of finished work. We have sufficient funds in hand to do this,
and whilst it is our purpose not to involve the association in debt, we
confidently anticipate that with the work begun, the interest in the
proposed movement will be greatly intensified, and we hopefully
anticipate largely increased contributions during the coming year,
which we believe will, with the generous help of the people of the
South, be speedily pushed to a completion without interruption.

We earnestly appeal to our comrades to give this important
undertaking their zealous and active co-operation, believing that if
they shall do so we will, at our next reunion, be able to report that
the memorial to our great civil leader will be far on its way to
completion. Respectfully submitted,

W. L. CABELL,

Chairman Committee.

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THE LOCAL ASSOCIATION.

The report of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, to
which General Cabell makes allusion, is as follows:

June 30, 1896.
General John B. Gordon, General Commanding U. C. V's:

I have the honor to submit herewith the annual report of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association for the fiscal year ending
June 9, 1896:

May 1, 1895, balance in bank $12,551 18

Received during the year 4,919 31

Making the total receipts $17,470 49

Expended during the year 799 62

Leaving balance due June 9, 1896 $16,670 87

which sum is deposited in the State Bank of Virginia, Richmond, Va.,
to the credit of John S. Ellett, treasurer.

The members of the last convention at Houston generously
pledged their camps for contributions of more than $10,000 to this
fund. As you will see from the above statement, a little less than
$5,000 of this amount has been received, but it is doubtless the inten-
tion of the many camps to bring their contributions to Richmond on
the occasion of this reunion. Some of these have already been re-
ceived, and many others will be handed in, we are informed, during
the week.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, through their presi-
dent, Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Savannah, Ga., have given us the assur-
ance of their hearty co-operation in the work of bnilding a monu-
ment to our beloved and honored President, and they have requested
the privilege of having assigned to them some particular part of this
work, which the committee having the matter in charge will gladly
arrange for them to do. Some of the most generous responses made
to our appeals for help have come from the ladies, who are always so
ready to give their valuable aid to every movement to do honor to
the great civil and military leaders of the South.

It is very important that the »amps continue their efforts to se-
cure money for. this monument, and we should at the very beginning
of our fiscal year inaugurate whatever measures may be necessary for
the vigorous prosecution of this work. The association having this
matter in charge will cheerfully give whatever time may be necessary
for the promotion of this most important work, and we cannot too
strongly urge upon our comrades the duty of inaugurating without
delay such measures as will ensure the early completion of the mem-
orial, the corner-stone of which is to be laid in this city on July 2d.
Respectfully submitted,

J. TAYLOR ELLYSON,

President.

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.Richmond, Va., June 29, 1896.
Hod. Taylor Ellyson,

President, Jefferson Davis Monument Association,
Richmond, Va.

Dear Sir: — I beg to submit herewith, as Treasurer of the Jeffer-
son Davis Monument Association, my report of the receipts and dis-
bursements for the fiscal year just ended. Should parties contribut-
ing desire information more in detail as regards the receipts from the
various states and camps I shall be very glad indeed to have them
call on me at the State Bank of Virginia and any information desired
will be cheerfully given.

Yours very truly, JOHN S. ELLETT,

Treasurer.

(The above mentioned "report of receipts and disbursements for
the fiscal year just ended" were not received by me. — Adjutant-
General.)

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT OF FUNDS
RECEIVED AND PAID OVER BY HIM
TO THE JEFFERSON DAVIS MONU-
MENT ASSOCIATION.

New Orleans, La., June 26, 1896.
Col. John S. Ellett,

Treasurer Jefferson Davis Monument Ass'n,
Richmond, Va.

Dear Comrade: — I enclose you herein a check for $494.50 for
subscriptions for Jefferson Davis Monument Fund, sent to me to
Headquarters, as follows:
City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Joseph E. Johnston Camp

No. 63, U. C. V's, Corpus Christi, Texas, by M. C. Spann,

Adjutant $179 30

Police Jury of Morehouse Parish, La , through R. H. Hinson

Camp No. 578, U. C. V's, Bastrop, La., Capt. J. M. Sharp,

Commander 100 00

Winnie Davis Camp, Daughters of the Confederacy, through

Washington Camp No. 239, U. C. V's, Brenham, Texas,

B. Eldridge, Treasurer 50 00

Washington Camp No. 239, U. C. V's, Brenham, Texas, through

B. Eldridge, Treasurer 50 01

Stockdale Camp No. 324, U. C. V's, Magnolia, Miss., W. T.

White, Adjutant 50 25

Jno. C. Upton Camp No. 43, U. C. V's, Huntsville, Texas, J.

T. Jarrard, Commander .... 50 00

Albert Sidney JohnstoD Camp No. 113, U. C. V's, Colorado,

Texas, Thos. Q. MuIHd, AdjutaDt 10 00

Horace RaDdall Camp No. 163, U. C. V's, Carthage, Texas, J.

M. Woolworth, Adjutaut 4 95

$T94~50

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I have receipted to the parties, please be sure and incorporate
these amounts in your report made for the Reunion, and put them in
any publication you may make.

Fraternally,

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Richmond, Va., June 30, 1896.
Major General Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General United Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, La.

My Dear General: — Your favor of 26th inst. with check for
$494.50, for subscriptions for the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund,
with list of names and amounts, received this day.

As requested by you, I will, of course, give credit to the individ-
uals, camps and States with the amounts opposite their respective
names in the reports and publications which will be made by me as
Treasurer of this Association.

Yours respectfully,

JNO. S. ELLETT,

Treasurer Jefferson Davis Monument Ass'n.

The reports were received and unanimously adopted.

AN OVATION TO MRS. DAVIS.

The Veterans Give Her a Cordial Reception — An Affecting Scene.

At the conclusion of the reading of the reports, Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, her daughter, Mrs. Hayes, Master Jefferson Davis Hayes,
entered the hall. They were escorted by Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson,
president of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, and General
Peyton Wise, chairman of the Reunion Committee.

This was the signal for the most tremendous outburst of enthusi-
asm. The distinguished party came into the Auditorium through
the door at the extreme northeastern end of the hall, approaching
from the rear of the stage. As soon as the familiar face of Mrs. Davis
was seen upon the stage there was great commotion and applause.
The band, which was stationed upon the balcony just above the stage,
began to play "Dixie," and everybody stood up and waved their hats
and handkerchiefs and cheered themselves hoarse. As Mrs. Davis
walked slowly towards the edge of the platform those seated upon
that elevation who could do so grasped her by the hand. Half way
up the stage she and daughter and grandchild were met by Gen-
eral Gordon, chairman of the convention, who warmly welcomed the
distinguished guests and escorted them to the front of the platform.

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GENERAL GORDON'S PRESENTATION.

General Gordon in presenting Mrs. Davis, said:

"My comrades, I know every Confederate heart will be moved
with an impulse which no words can describe, when I present to you
this woman, who shared not only the fortunes of our great chieftain
in war, but who followed him in his incarceration and who now rep-
resents him as he has gone to his long home, and in your name, I now
for you, my comrades, imprint upcn her brow a reverential kiss for
every comrade present.

He then presented Mrs. Hayes, and said, "and this daughter who
though now in a distant state, because of the health of her husband,
this daughter comes back to us at this Reunion, to join her prayers
with yours, that the blessed memories of the past may never be for-
gotten, but may go on strengthening our manhood, making us better,
purer and nobler men, and better citizens of a common country."

He then presented Jefferson Davis Hayes, and placing his hand
upon his head, said, "and I present this boy for your adoption,
bearing the honored name of Jefferson Davis."

Comrade W. M. Dunbar of Confederate Survivors Association of
Camp No. 435 of Augusta, Ga., made a motion that Jefferson Davis
Hayes, the grandson of our old chieftain, be made an honorary mem-
ber of this association for life, which was carried amidst the wildest
enthusiasm, and by a rising vote.

General Gordon then said, now, my comrades, I give him the
right hand of fellowship, and with your consent make him an aid-de-
camp on my staff, which was carried by acclamation, amidst the wild-
est cheering.

General Cabell then arose and said he wanted to announce that
Mrs. Hayes was on his staff with the rank of colonel and had been
for more than a year.

A recess for half an hour was then taken, on motion of General
W. H. Jackson, of Tennessee, for the veterans to meet the widow and
daughter of our beloved chieftain.

Immediately after recess General Gordon announced that the
graduating exercises of the Virginia Military Institute would take place
in the auditorium to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, when he would
deliver the diplomas and medals to the graduates.

General Gordon announced that the next order of business was
to hear from the committee in regard to the matter of the Battle
Abbey and receive their report.

The following resolutions constitute the report of the committee
to the United Confederate Veterans:

Resolved, That the general committee be authorized to report
progress to the United Confederate Veterans and ask that this com-
mittee be discharged, and immediately succeeded by a trustee, to be
selected by the representatives of each division of the United Confed-
erate Veterans here assembled, who shall be authorized and directed
to obtain a charter for the incorporation, which trustees so appointed
shall be named as incorporators in said charter.

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Resolved, That this committee recommend to the United Confed-
erate Veterans the adoption of the form of the charter presented by
the executive committee.

Further resolutions were passed suggesting that the general
commanding should call a meeting of the trustees without delay, and
also that the report of the committee be presented at 11 o'clock this
morning and that Colonel Dickinson present his proposal from Mr,
Rouss to the gathering.

The report of the Executive Commmittee, as presented by Col-
onel Mcintosh, recommended that the purposes of the memorial hall
should be vigorously pushed, but that it was the belief of the com-
mittee that the cause could be greatly forwarded by the abandon-
ment of the work by a committee, and the adoption of a charter by
the United Confederate Veterans for this expressed purpose.

In connection with such representations the Executive Commit-
tee presented a proposed charter, which had been carefully drafted
by Colonel Mcintosh, and especially designed to meet the require-
ments of the case.

The charter provides for the naming of a board of incorporators
under the corporate name of Confederate Memorial Association, who
shall be trustees, to be named by the commanders of each of the
divisions of the veterans, and discards the name of "Battle Abbey,"
and adopts the building of the "Confederate Memorial Institute," as
the object of its incorporation.

THE PROPOSED BATTLE ABBEY CHARTER.

The charter offered by the committee, and which was adopted,
and will be presented to the general body, is as follows:

Petition for charter.
To ,

The petition of shows:

First, that they desire for themselves and their associates and
successors, to be incorporated under the name of "The Confederate
Memorial Association" for the period of years, with the privi-
lege of renewal, and with the right under that name to exercise all
the rights incident to corporations under the law of the State of
-, and such other powers as are herein asked.

Second. The purpose of this incorporation is to erect at some
place to be hereafter selected, as herein provided for, a building to
be known and desiguated as "The Confederate Memorial Institute"
and to collect, arrange, and preserve therein, statues, portraits, pho-
tographs and other pictures of the soldiers and sailors of the Confeder-
ate States Army and Navy, of every rank from that of private to that of
general commanding, who served faithfully the Confederate cause, and
also of the civilians, especially of our noble women who were devoted to

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the South ; also, such archives, relics, mementoes, records, hi&tories, pa-
pers, bcoks, orations, poems, paintings, pictures, and literature of every
kind, and everything else illustrative of the self-sacrifice and denial
of Confederate soldiers and Bailors, and the .Southern people, their
courage and heroism during said war, and their eonslancy and devo-
tion to the cause for which they fought, together with the official acts
of each of the States of the Southern Confederacy by their legisla-
tures and constitutional conventions, and all debates therein, and
proclamations of their Governors just before, during, and after the
war, and also other matters illustrative of the character, life, spirit
and motives of the South and her people, including the period
anterior, during, and subsequent to the war, calculated to
enable future historians to obtain such reliable facts and data as
will assist them in writing fair, accurate and impartian his-
tory of said war and of the South, the said association being
educational, patriotic and hittorical for all time. And this corpora-
tion shall have the right to compile and publish and to have compiled
and published, books, plans, charts; and other papers and documents
relating to the purposes for which it is organized and to apply for
and hold copyrights and patents necessary for its protection, and to
sell and dispose of the same.

Third. The domicile and principal place of business of said
association shall be where said Memorial Irstitute is erected.

Fourth. Said association is not to have any capital stock, and is
not organized for pecuniary gain; "but shall have the right and power
to accept, from time to time any and all donations, devises bequests
and gifts of real estate necessary for the location and erection of its
buildings and such other grounds as may be needful for its purposes
and that of "the United Confederate Veterans;" and may also accept
all donations, devises and bequests of real estate, money, or other
property that may from time to time be made to it.

Said association may from time to time appoint such agents or
agencies as it may deem proper to solicit subscriptions, donations, or
gifts, and receive and receipt for all money or gifts of value whenever
and wherever the same may have been made for the benefit of the
association prior to its incorporation, or that may hereafter be made
to it, and shall cause to be issued and delivered to each and every
person who has contributed or may hereafter contribute to the asso-
ciation as much as one dollar — if such contributor so desire — a certifi-
cate with the impression of its seal thereon, certifying that the person
named therein has given the sum named to "the Confederate Memo-
rial Association," and said certificate shall be of such paper, with such
devices or engravings thereon as will make it suitable and capable of
being preserved and transmitted by the holder as an heirloom to his
or her posterity.

THE MANAGEMENT.

Fifth. The management of the said association shall consist of
one trustee for each division of "the United Confederate Veterans,"

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to be selected; or who may have been selected, by each of such divi-
sions and their successors, whose term of office shall be four years.
That any person who was a Confederate soldier, or a descendant of
one, who may contribute as much as $100,000 to the said association
shall have the right to appoint one trustee for the same as his or her
representative for each $100,000 or fraction thereof over $50,000 so
contributed, which trustee or trustees shall hold said office during
the pleasure of such donor, and after the death of such donor said
trustee or trustees shall hold office for life, and their successor or
successors shall be appointed by the surviving members of said board.

Immediately after the board of trustees herein provided for shall
be first assembled, they shall be divided as equally as may be into
two classes. The terms of the first class shall be vacated at the
expiration of the second year, and those of the second-class at the
expiration of the fourth year; so that one-half of the board shall be
chosen every second year, said terms to be determined by lot by said
trustees, all of whom shall serve without salary or compensation save
and except their expenses incurred in and about the business of said
association. Said trustees shall elect a suitable and competent person
superintendent of said institute, and a treasurer, and such other
officers, agents and employes ss may be necessary, whose duties shall
be defined and compensation fixed by said trustees. Said trustees
may from time to time, as to them may seem proper, sell any or all
real estate, the title to which may be acquired, except* so much as may
be needed for said institute, and shall invest the proceeds thereof
together with other money of said association, bearing interest, as an
endowment fund, and with such interest payable at such time as may
seem proper to said trustees, so as to provide a fund to defray all cur-
rent expenses necessary for the perpetual preservation and mainten-
ance of said Memorial Institute, its relics, archives, etc.

The treasurer of said association shall be required to enter into
bond, payable to said association, in such sum as may be fixed by
said trustees and approved by them, conditioned for the faithful
accounting and keeping of all funds of said association that may go
into his hands as such treasurer.

Sixth. That whenever as much as two hundred thousand dollars
shall have been given in money or other valuable things and real
estate, the cash market value of which, with the money so given, will
make a sum equal to two hundred thousand dollars, independent of
so much real estate as may be needed for a site for said institute, the
said trustees shall proceed to select a place or location for said insti-
tute and acquire title thereto and erect thereon, under the supervi-
sion and according to the plans and specifications of a competent
architect, a fire proof building of suitable and proper dimensions for
the purposes for which it is designed as hereinbefore stated.

Seventh. Until said association shall come into possession of as
much as $200,000 for its use and benefit, exclusive of the real estate
necessary for the building and curtilege, the management of its affairs
in soliciting subscriptions, gifts and donations, etc., shall be in the

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hands of a superintendent to be elected by said trustees, whose com-
pensation and the expenses of whose office shall be fixed by thtin, to
be paid monthly by the treasurer of said association, upon the war-
rant of said superintendent. And in order to raise a fund to defray
the necessary expenses of the association, until the said sum of two
hundred thousand dollars shall have been raised, the treasurer of the
said association shall be and is hereto authorized to collect any and
all moneys that have been deposited for the use of this association
whenever the same may be, and that which may hereafter be depos-
ited, and deposit the same in a bank to be designated by said
trustees to the credit of the "Confederate Memorial Association," to
be drawn out alone upon the check of the treasurer of said associa-
tion, and said trustees shall invest said money by loaning it at inter-
est for a time not more than twelve months, secured by a first mort-
gage upon unincumbered real estate at not exceeding seventy-five per
cent, of its assessed valuation at the best rate of interest obtainable,
payable monthly; said loans to be made at the expense of the bor-
rowers.

Eighth. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the Board of Trustees
by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the division wherein the
same has occurred shall, at its next reunion or convention, fill such
vacancy by the selection of another trustee, within one year after such
vacancy occurs, or, whenever, there ceases to be an organization of
divisions of the United Confederate Veterans as vacancies occur in
said Board of Trustees, the survivors thereof shall appoint such suc-
cessors. Such appointments to be made of Confederate Veterans or
the descendants of Confederate Veterans. It being the object and
purpose that this association shall be forever under the management
and control of Confederate Veterans and their descendants.

Ninth. That the Confederate Memorial Association shall be
under the auspices of the United Confederate Veterans, so long as
such organization shall exist, and once in each year, so long as
reunions are held. At the general reunion of said United Confeder-
ate Veterans, said Memorial Association, through its Board of Trus-
tees shall make detailed and full report of the condition and affairs
of said association.

Tenth. The Board of Trustees herein provided for may adopt a
common seal and alter the same at pleasure, and may adopt by-laws
for their government, not inconsistant with the provisions of this
charter, and may appoint an executive committee composed of three
of their members with power to act for it in the management and
details of its business.

General W. H. Jackson of Tennessee made a motion that the
report be received, and that the States shall now proceed to name the
Board of Trustees, with the accompanying recommendation in regard
to the charter, and the charter itself to be also referred to the Board
of Trustees now to be selected, one member from each of the States,
and that the delegates will now select that member to represent their
respective States upon that Board of Trustees.

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On motion of General Jackson, of Tennessee, the report was
received adopted and referred to the Board of Trustees.

Colonel Mcintosh, of Mississippi, offered an amendment to the pro-
posed charter of the Battle Abbey, providing- that Mr. Charles Broad-
way Rouss on account of his well- known liberality ia donating
$100,000.00 without condition, or reference to location, be permitted
to name one representative for himself on the Board of Trustees,
which was seconded and carried.

Upon inquiry by one of the delegates, the Chair stated that not
only each State should have one representative on the Board of Trus-
tees, but also each division outside of the States, thereby making
provision for an equal representation on that Board of the Indian
Territory, Oklahoma Territory and the District of Columbia.

Comrade F. A. Monroe, of Louisiana, said: It should be clearly
understood in the interest of the movement what Mr. Rouss' propo-
sition is. A great deal of confusion and doubt exists as to whether
the original proposition holds good; whether in that Charter the
original condition is observed, because if changes have been made, in
any respect, it will alter the original proposition.

"Question, question, question," and great confusion.

General Gordon: As far as I understand the question, I will
attempt to clear the apprehension of every member of this convention.
Changes have been made in the conditions, but no change has been
made in Mr. Rouss' proposition, except to increase, to enlarge, to
magnify that great memorial until it shall be worthy of the grand
cause which it is to commemorate. That great-hearted comrade not
only multiplied his subscription by five, making his proposition for
$500,000, but I will undertake to say here to-day that whenever the
foundations are laid that if a million, or two million are needed his
heart and purse will respond to the need.

I ask not only in my capacity as chairman, but as your brother,
placing myself upon the same plane, and upon even a lower plane in
order that I may make myself understood clearly in this matter, I
suggest, I beg, in the name of that memorial which is to indicate to
posterity a fact, that in all these ages has never before been commem-
orated in stone, or marble, or brass; that memorial which will carry
down to the remotest generations the glory which you men won from
'61 to '65; I would beg in the name of that cause that .you,

My comrades, rise to the magnitude and glory of that proposi-
tion and let us meet our comrade, meet him with as much generosity
as he has displayed to us, and let us adopt the motion offered by
General Jackson, as amended already, and leave this entire question
of locality and amounts to your Committee or Board of Trustees.

Why, my comrades, it is impossible that any man representing
the body of delegates who would name him as a trustee, should be-
tray that trust. None of these men here at present could prove
unworthy, they stood by you in the terrible time which tried your
souls, these men are your comrades, and are true to your memories
and to any act which they may do in the body of trustees. We can

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trust these men, and it is impossible to submit to a convention of
this magnitude lengthy matters like these and to discuss all these

details.

Mr. Rouss, our comrade, having originated the plan and being
intimately acquainted with all these matters, and vitally interested,
submitted his proposition and conditions to the committee appointed
by the United Confederate Veterans, who have clearly, thoughtfully.,
impartially and bravely made the Constitution of the Confederate
Memorial Association, to which cause we will lend our labors freely
and'cheerfnlly, and with your patriotic assistance I feel assured that
thos'e labors will culminate in a grand success at last,

Cries of Question, Question, Question.

Then Colonel J. L. Powers of Mississippi and Colonel J. G.
Holmes of South Carolina made a few remarks.

General Jackson said, I do not understand that this proposition
changes anything. Mr. Rouss will increase the amount that has been
subscribed to $500,000, on our raising $500,000. Each state appoints
its trustee and they will decide whether they will go forward under
the original proposition or not.

Your Board of Trustees will confer, and Mr. Rouss will appoint
his representative to act with us.

Colonel W. R. Mcintosh of Mississippi said, Mr. Rouss has not
changed his original proposition. His proposition at first was that
he would give $100,000 for the erection of a Southern Memorial In-
stitute if a like amount was raised by others throughout the South
without condition. That proposition stands good to-day and his
representative stated yesterday that he had authority to comply with
the terms to draw on Mr. Rouss for the erection of the "Battle Abbey."
But Mr. Rouss comes forward with an additional proposition which
is conditional in its terms.

All these people are competing for the Battle Abbey. In Nash-
ville they say we will give, in addition to our regular subscription
on condition that it is loeated here, $150,000,— so the Crescent City,
Mr. Rouss now proposes'for reasons which are stated in his letter
that this great memorial be located in Washington, and will give in
addition to $100,000 $500,000, provided we raise $500,000.

Why complain at Comrade Rouss, it is his generosity and patri-
otism, which actuates him, and is a magnificent proposition which
any comrade has the right to make. We need not support Wash-
ington and thus meet the requirements of this additional subscrip-
tion, but only support his original proposition of $100,000.

Professor Garrett then said: In regard to this charter I simply
wish to explain one point which may relieve a misapprehension. That
charter was made six months ago. It has not been changed in any
essential, before any second proposition of Comrade Rouss and was
so adopted. It does not deal with any proposition but the original,
which has so long been before us. Just as we were closing and after
this charter had been adopted Comrade Roues, through his represen-
tative and friend, Colonel Dickinson, submitted his second proposition.

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We felt tbat we had no power whatever to act upon it. We have,
therefore, simply referred it to this body of Confederate Veterans,
and our report contained this clause, "feeling that we had no authority
to act upon it, it was proper that proposition should be made known
to you by the distinguished representative of Mr. Rouss, Colonel
Dickinson.

After some further discussion on the subject, in which the
greatest confusion prevailed, in which Colonel Powers of Mississippi,
General Jackson of Tennessee, Colonel J. G. Holmes of South
Carolina, Colonel Mcintosh of Mississippi, and Judge Barksdale of
Louisiana, participated, the privilege of the floor was granted to
Judge Monroe of Louisiana, who spoke as follows:

WANTS DOUBTS REMOVED,

Mr. Chairman, what I desire to say is this, that I have been in-
terested since March, 1896, probably more than many of the gentle-
men who are making this disturbance, in promoting this Battle Abbev
question. I have been doing a good deal in that direction, and I
happen to have been thrown into constant communication with a
large body of ladies in the city of New Orleans, who have worked at
it indefatigably. They have raised something over $3500, I believe,
which is now in bank in the city of New Orleans, awaiting the deter-
mination of the question whether Mr. Rouss' proposition was to be
carried out in good faith or not. On last Saturday evening, at a
meeting of the camp of which I happen to be president, and which
numbers over three hundred men, this question was submitted, and
a discussion upon it was prematurely brought up, and some objec-
tion was made to this whole question, upon the ground that Mr.
Rouss' pi'oposition was not in a business shape; that if Mr. Rouss
desired the people of the South to raise $100,000 to match $100,000
of his, he ought to put his $100,000 in bonds and place it to the
order of the United Confederate Veterans. I was not one of those
that thought that way. I accepted his proposition in perfect good
faith. I believe him to be a patriot actuated by the jmrest motives;
and I believe that his proposition was dictated in perfect good
faith, and that it will be carried out as it was made. But I mention
this to show that many people, not only in New Orleans, but else-
where, have their doubts, and in order that their doubts may
be removed, and that we may know clearly and distinctly the
ground we stand upon, I asked these questions and brought up
this discussion.

We are now asked to adopt a charter without knowing what is
in it.

I accepted the statement of Major Garrett that the charter was
drawn up six months ago, and, therefore, in accordance with the
original proposition, and that we can swallow it, so to speak, and
adopt it without further discussion. But there is another matter,
and that is eighteen gentlemen, one from each State, be appointed
a board of trustees who shall determine the site and other matters

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of great importance, and now this latter proposition of Mr. Eouss
shall appoint the governors, who are to control the fund, or a ma-
jority of them, or an ecpjal number of them; in other words, Mr.
Eouss is to control the whole thing; he is to select the site, and
all. Another matter is that one trustee from each State is not a
fair way of dealing with this matter, because some of the States
have two hundred or three hundred camps, and other States, like
Oklahoma, have only one; and a State that has only one camp ought
not to have an equal voice with a State which has three hundred.

Cries of Question, Question, Question.

After a good deal of further discussion by various comrades,
and an explanation from Lieutenant-General Cabell, General
Gordon said as follows :

The reading of Comrade Eouss' proposition will possibly clear
the atmosphere, and I shall therefore, ask Colonel Dickinson of New
York to read the letter from Mr. Eouss.

Colonel A. G. Dickinson, Mr. Eouss representative here read the
letters giving his new proposition:

No. 549 Broadway, New York, )
June 11, 1896. j

Colonel A G. Dickinson, 945 Broadway, City;

My Dear Colonel — Your esteemed favor of June 1st, is before me.
It is remarkable with what wonderful accuracy you have interpreted
my dream of a great memorial hall and Battle-Abbey, dedicated to
the great men and women of the South, and to the advancement of
civilization and science.

I have never been more impressed than by the seeming inspiration
of your brilliaut conceptions, and I thank you from the bottom of my
heart for your kindly assistance in the development of my plans, you
have not exceeded my wishes or my intentions, but you have divined
my purpose, and you have laid out before me a great work, that has
become in its purpose the realization of my desires. It is no longer
a dream the reality is within our grasp, and the attainment of this
object, with the co-operation of my countrymen, can be fulfilled.

Possessing, as you do, my entire confidence, and feeling the
strength of your sustaining influence, I hope we shall be able to
accomplish, with my means and your instrumentality on the one
hand, and the combined liberality of our people upon the other, a
work that will be a great pleasure to all who have taken or may take
an interest in it. Your thoughts, feelings and tastes are in unison
with my own, and it must be your province to represent me in doing
my part in planning and arranging the memorial hall and Battle-
Abbey, as a tribute of devotion of Southern men and women to a
nation's pride and glory. Nothing narrow or contracted has intruded
itself upon the plans which you have formulated and presented to me;
they met with my entire approval and you have my entire approval,
and you have my authority, accompanied by my best wishes, to carry
them out.

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A nation will endorse our plans, and visitors from foreign
countries can be edified by the lights of knowledge of things past
and present, which will be created as much for them as for our-
selves. Although a large factor myself, I am but an humble
instrument in the hands of my comrades and friends, to assist them
in perpetuating the glorious deeds of our heroes, I am proud to
feel that I am to be an assistant in developing the true history of
our great country. The pages that will be written from the ar-
chives will be collected by the Battle-Abbey Association, and which
has remained so long unwritten, will be sacred to truth and justice,
and 1 hope that my countrymen, both North and South, will do my
personal memory the justice to believe that in offering to devote a
half million of dollars to the great objects that we wish to obtain,
that I have done it with a singleness of purpose of devotion to my
fellow-man, and an unselfish desire to honor the good and great of
our country.

Your long continued and disinterested devotion to the same
object has won for you my affection and esteem, and I trust you
implicitly to stand with me, by me, and for me in carrying out with
promptness and energy our part of the purpose of our mission.
All money necessary to carry out these plans will be placed at your
disposal, and a fund of money to the extent of $500,000 will be so
arranged that you and the rest of our associates who will constitute
the Board of Governors, can make proper disposition of it, as may be
required. To this you can consider me pledged, as well as my
heirs and assigns, and I have further the hocor to state for your
information that my great pleasure will be to see the work begun
as soon as my partners, my beloved countrymen, of every State and
Territory in the South, are ready, and pushed forward to comjue-
tion with all the rapidity commensurate with prudence and good
workmanship, for some of us are getting along in years, and we
must hurry up a little if we are to be permitted to see the result of
our patriotic enterprise.

"The Temple to the Lost Cause" must be founded upon the
Rock of Ages, its importance will develop with time, and whatever
exalted estimate may be placed upon it to-day I trust will be inten-
sified by coming generations of men, so that it will always stand as
a part of the history of our great Republican Government.

Your letter describes the situation exactly, the condensed his-
tory you have given of the proposed Memorial Hall, ancVall that led
up to it, my plans and agreements, I find correctly stated, and with-
out going into details I authorize you to fulfil my promises by
meeting the views and decisions of the convention that will be
appointed at Richmond, and who will represent the wishes of the
United Confederate Veterans as to the location of the building, etc.

I sincerely trust the matter will meet with no delay, but be
definitely settled at the Reunion. I am ready at any time to meet
my 'engagements as to this work, and wherever it is decided to

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build the Battle Abbey I will be in accord with the United Con-
federate Veterans, and hereby authorize you to act about the
money I haye advanced as working capital as you think proper, as
it is best I think that you should be governed by surrounding cir-
cumstances. In your letter to me you have seemingly "covered
the whole ground" in your anticipations as to what may occur if
the $100,01)0 has not been raised in the South. I must leave all
that to you, I know that you join me in the hope that everything
will be ready to proceed to definite and final arrangements pro-
vided "the Temple" is to be located in one of the Southern States
or Territories. If, however, my idea i3 accepted, and Washing-
ton is selected as the location, which proposition I request my
countrymen to consider dispassionately and seriously before mak-
ing a final decision, then you will proceed to make such arrange-
ments with the representatives of the United Confederate Veterans
as you may think necessary, and the then existing circumstances
may require, all of which actions upon your part I hereby confirm in
advance.

C. B. ROUSS.
Colonel A. G. Dickinson, No. 945 Broadway, City :

My Dear Colonel — You have again kindly consented to represent
me in matters connected with the memorial hall and Battle-Abbey.

All your actions at Atlanta not only received my approval, but
my sincere thanks, and it is a great pleasure for me to know that at
the reunion of the U. C. V.'s at Richmond, you will again represent
my interests. You have my full authority to act in the premises as
you may deem expedient and right touching my promises and agree-
ments to co-operate with the U. C. V.'s and the people of the South
in the construction of a memorial hall, to be located as may be agreed
upon by those who have had or may have this power and privilege
conferred upon them. I request of the committee that the same
courtesies and privileges may be extended to you at Richmond as
you received at their hands at Atlanta, and I trust that the same
harmony will prevail, and a result accomplished fully realizing our
best expectations.

With many thanks for the services you have rendered me, I am,
my dear Colonel, most sincerely and truly, your friend and comrade.

C. B. ROUSS.

The Chair stated that the letters would be referred to the Trus-
tees for their consideration:

colonel Dickinson's speech.

The privilege of the floor was then extended to Colonel A. GL
Dickinson of New York, as the representative of Mr. Charles Broad-
way Rouss, who was to explain the situation in regard to the Battle-
Abbey to the convention. Colonel Dickinson spoke as follows:

Mr. Chairman, we all thoroughly understand that the question of
the location of the memorial hall is not before this convention, and it

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is as well understood, I presume, that it is not the intention of Mr.
Rouss, or of his representative, to interfere in any manner whatever
with the location of that institution. It is thoroughly understood also
that $100,000 was appropriated by Mr. Rouss to build this memorial
hall, provided an equal amount was appropriated by the people of the
South. I came here as Mr. Rouss' representative on this occasion to
meet your views in regard to that matter and to abide by the decision
that might be made, whatever that decision might be.

It was thought that in all probability the question of location
would come up at this time, and probably be settled. It was Mr.
Rouss' desire that it should be settled by this convention, now assem-
bled in Richmond. I came, however, prepared for any emergency.
It was not an emergency that you might call upon Mr. Rouss for his
$100,000, but I came prepared to give you a check for that if you
should call for it, after stating that you had raised an equal amount.
It was, however, a possibility that, in view of the cyclones that have
passed over and devastated the country, and other causes affecting
your prosperity, my comrades might have been unable to raise the
required amount; so I came prepared also to state that Mr. Rouss is
willing to delay this matter as long as you wish — one year, or two
years, or as long as it took to raise the Washington monument, is at
your disposal.

Feeling that some emergency of this kind might arise, I addressed
a letter to Mr. Rouss upon the subject, and brought to his notice the
fact that there might possibly be a failure on your part to raise the
$100,000, and under those circumstances I desired to know if it was
his intention to build the Battle-Abbey at any rate, whether the
money was all raised or not. This generous man, this philanthropist,
is not governed by any narrow rules in regard to his charities; they
are widespead, and they are universal. This is but one item in the
great amount of charity he is doing. I wrote him a letter, which
I will read to you:

Continuing, Mr. Dickinson read his letter to Mr. Rouss, and the
reply to same.

Continuing, he said:

"I will state that I did not think a grand Battle- Abbey could be
built for $200,000, and I stated to him what I thought, and had plans
drawn by an architect and estimates made thereon, and I placed
before him a design for a memorial abbey that would cost $750,000.
I went further and stated that the city that got this sum, would add
it to the property upon which it was built, and furthermore, that
$250,000 additional should be furnished to endow this great institu-
tion. It is upon that basis that he writes me this letter.

Amidst much confusion cries of Question, Question, Question.

Chaplain J. William Jones: Mr. Chairman, I make point of
order that the whole matter has been left to a Board of Trustees.

A delegate raised the point of order that the proposition was
simply to let one man from each division, serve in the Board of
Trustees, and not one man from each State, as stated by General
Jackson in his resolution.

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Amidst great confusion and cries of Question.

The Chair said the vote is now upon the amendment, by Colonel
Mcintosh of Mississippi.

All in favor of the motion will say aye; contrary, no.

The ayes have it.

Is the convention ready to vote upon General Jackson's resolu-
tion as amended ?

All in favor will say aye; those opposed, no.

The ayes seem to have it.

The Chair: A division is asked for, and the Secretary will pro-
ceed to call the roll of Divisions, which resulted as follows:

AYES NOES

Alabama 297

Arkansas 55

District of Columbia 12

Florida 46

Georgia 127

Indian Territory 14

Kentucky 84

Louisiana 16*

Maryland 18

Mississippi 99

Missouri I88

North Carolina 82 4

Oklahoma -

South Carolina •• 194

Tennessee 103

Texas *59

Virginia H8

West Virginia 5

1804 267

" Mississippi subsequently changed from "no" to "aye."

The Chair announced the motion carried, and that the State
should now proceed to name the members for the Board of Trustees.

On motion of General Jackson, the thanks of the convention
were expressed to the executive committee and to the officers of the
Rouss memorial for the,' work done by that body, for the great labor
that they have bestowed upon this work, and the good judgment
displayed, and the results achieved.

A delegate from Texas stated that Texas had five sub-divisions,
and asked how many trustees they were entitled to.

The Chair: Only one member from each State.

General Jackson moved that the General Commanding be made
ex-officio a member of the Board of Trustees of the Battle Abbey.

The Chair: It is moved and seconded, what forbids me to
state, that the General Commanding whoever he may be at any
time, shall be ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees.

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The motion is practically unanimous, only one dissenting voice.

After much discussion, amidst the greatest confusion, regard-
ing the members eligible as Trustees.

General Chalaron said, Mr. Chairman, it should be finally set-
tled by this Convention that no member of this Board should be
selected outside of the Confederate States.

The Chair: Is compelled to rule all of this matter and discus-
sion out of order, and states that the resolution already adopted
comprehends the entire question, and informs the comrades who
have participated in this discussion that the only way of getting
at the proposition is to reconsider the vote by which the original
resolution was adopted. *

A delegation from Alabama made the point of order that all
this matter was irrelevant, and that the order of business, the selec-
tion of the names of the Trustees be proceeded with, which was
sustained by the chair.

TRUSTEES ELECTED.

According to the resolution previously adopted the body went
into the election of the members of the Board of Trustees of the
Battle Abbey. This procedure took up considerable time, but it
finally resulted in the election of the following members:

Alabama — George D. Johnston of Tuscaloosa.

Arkansas — Major Wm. P. Campbell of Little Rock.

District of Columbia — Win. A. Gordon,

Florida— General W. D. Chipley.

Georgia — General Clement A. Evans.

Indian Territory — Brigadier-General D. M. Hailey.

Kentucky — General J. B. Briggs.

Louisiana — General J. A. Chalaron.

Maryland — General John Gill.

Mississippi — Colonel J. R. Mcintosh.

Missouri — A. E. Asbury.

North Corolina — Thomas S. Keenan of Raleigh.

Oklahoma — John O. Casler.

South Carolina — Dr. B. H. Teague.

Tennessee — General W. H. Jackson.

Texas — General L. S. Ross.

Virginia — Colonel John B. Cary.

West Virginia — Colonel Robert White of Wheeling.

Comrade Allen Barksdale moved thaft the Commander-in-Chief
be made ex-offieio President and member of that Board, which was
seconded. Carried.

A delegate: I think that the wisest vote given.

The Chair remarked that it did not think that the wisest vote
given.

The Chair will embrace this opportunity of announcing that
when this Board of Trustees has been appointed, its first meeting
will be at the rooms of General W. H. Jackson, No. 212, at the
Jefferson Hotel, to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

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Colouel Jno. B. Cary was appointed on the Board of Trustees
as Virginia's representative, vice General Fitzhugh Lee, absent
from the country.

Comrade S. A. Cunningham, editor of the Confederate Veteran
was recognized and made a brief statement in reference to his
paper.

The Chair then announced that nominations for the place
where the next annual convention should be held would be in
order, and on motion it was decided that nominating speeches
should be limited to fifteen minutes.

Baltimore was placed in nomination by Captain K. H. P. Stauv,
of that city, who said:

Mr. Chairman and Comrades— I have the honor to present to you
an invitation from the Monumental City of our State to hold your
next convention in the city of Baltimore. I hold in my hand a reso-
lution passed by the City Council of Baltimore unanimously. I
also have a special letter written to this convention by the Mayor of
Baltimore, inviting this convention to meet in Baltimore in 1897.
(Mr. Stauv here read the letter of the Mayor of Baltimore, and also
the resolution).

I also hold in my hand an invitation unanimously extended by
the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce. (Mr. Stauv here read the
letter from the Chamber of Commerce, endorsing the action of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.) I also have here an invita-
tion from the Merchants' and Mechanics' Association of Baltimore
(reads same).

Now, comrades, here you have before you an invitation not only
of the official authorities of the city of Baltimore, which was unani-
mous, and embraces every man and woman and child in that city,
but you have before you the invitation of the Chamber of Com-
merce, which embraces all the commercial interests, and also the
invitation of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Association, which
embraces all the business interests of the city of Baltimore.

I am here to present them, and to ask you to come. Baltimore,
you all know, did her duty through the war. You know that in
1861, when the Federal solaiers attempted to pass through the city
of Baltimore, her citizens opposed them in the streets, and tried,
though unorganized, to stand between them and you. (Applause.)

You know what the women of Baltimore have done, and you
know what the men of Baltimore have done. You know that imme-
diately after the war, Baltimore appropriated at least $50,000 to pur-
chase agricultural implements, and sent them down South to help
you people start in the world. (Applause).

We that represent Baltimore know that St. Louis wants the
convention next year, and we know that Nashville wants it; but
Tennessee has had it once, and Maryland never has.

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I have a resolution here I would like to read, which is as
follows :

'■Resolved, That, when this convention adjourns, it adjourns to
meet in Baltimore in June, 1897."

I hope this convention will pass that resolution. General Kyd
Douglas will follow me, merely to present some of the claims of the
city of Baltimore.

GENERAL DOUGLAS' REMARKS.

General Douglas, approaching the edge of the platform, said:

Mi/ Fellow- Rebels of the Confederacy — Wherever the Southland
extends, the city of Baltimore needs no introduction. There was
not a State in tlie Confederacy, nor a county in that State, to which,
after the sun went down on Appomattox, the city of Baltimore did
not extend its hand of friendship, fellow-feeling and sympathy.
(Applause). She is no external territory to our Confederacy ! (Cries
of -'No, no!" "She never was!") She was of our own people; she
was our sister; and nothing but the Potomac river ever tried to
separate us, and even that couldn't do it ! (Applause).

I have a right to stand before Virginians and upon Virginia
soil in behalf of the Monumental City of my State, for I was born
in Virginia, although, to paraphrase the remark of a very distin-
guished Virginian, I have for many years been a native of Mary-
land; and when we come to Richmond I always know that we come
with the hearty invitation Of every citizen of this grand old Com-
monwealth. I have heard that distinguished Virginia gentleman
who is now Consul-General to Cuba say that in the coming years,
when all the Confederates that lived in the State of Maryland
should be dead except one, if that one had the power of locomo-
tion, and any Confederate celebration should take place south of
the Potomac he would hire a brass band and a train and come down
here to it.

I need not tell these people here of the hospitality of our city.
I need not tell you of what Maryland has done or what Maryland
will do. I need not tell any Southerner that when he reaches the
Monumental City he stands among friends that have proved their
friendship in the hour of trial. (Applause.) We might ask of you
to come as a matter of sport, because we have the champion base-
ball team of the world. (Great applause. ) And we mig^t ask you
to come for many other reasons.

COULD NOT DIVIDE US.

The Potomac river never could divide us from this Southland.
The war only made us your friends and you our friends. The hos-
pitality of our city is known both North and South. The Mayor of
Baltimore bids you come; the Council bids you come; the people
bids you come; every class and condition of people promise
you their hospitality, and bid these rebels of the Confederate nation
to come to Baltimore and be with us and partake of our Confeder-
ate hospitality.

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And you, my General (General Gordon), on whose staff I once
served, whose every order I carried to the best of my ability, I
hope the time may come when, standing in Baltimore, I may intro-
duce you and your staff to our good people of Maryland, and we
will give you a high place in our line. Our hospitality will know
no partisan character, no sectional lines, no individual distinctions;
but as. Marylanders and Baltimoreans, we will give you welcome —
vour wives, your sons, your daughters, and your grand-daughters,
and the more daughters and grand-daughters you bring, the more
it will please us young bachelors. (Applause.) You will see why I have
been chosen as the one to present our claims. My head is not silvered
o'er with gray. (Laughter.) I represent the young people of our
city, with their prospective future, the immediate present, and with
all the glorious memories of the past. And in the name of the noble
Maryland Confederates who died at Antietam, in the name of those
who died all over the country, in the name of the Silk-Stocking
Brigade which Maryland gave to the Revolution, as well as to the
Confederacy, in the name of our manhood, our hospitality, our
men, and our women, I ask you to come and give us an opportunity
to show you that we have hands outstretched and hearts tilled with
love for every one connected with the fathers of our' Confederacy.
(Prolonged applause.)

Colonel John O. Casler, of Oklahoma, seconded the nomination
of Baltimore.

Colonel H. A. Newman, of Missouri, arose and said that "old
Jo Shelby," who, like General Kyd Douglas represented the
younger generation, would address the convention.

GENERAL, JO SHELBY — ST. LOUIS WITHDRAWS.

In response to a call from the members of the Missouri delega-
tion, General Jo Shelby came to the front of the platform to
speak for that delegation. In introducing him, General Gordon
took occasion to remark: "Comrades, this is "Old Jo, " but who,
like General Kyd Douglas and myself, represents the young gen-
eration." (Laughter.)

General Shelby began his brief speech b}- saying: "Like many
from Misouri, I have come here to mingle with you for the affection
and love that I entertain for you. We are here as ex-Confederates
to watch the laying of the corner-stone to a monument to the mem-
ory of Jefferson Davis, whom we all love and revere. I stand here
as a representative of the Confederate cause west of the Mississippi,
and I speak for the Missourians when I say that this for all time
shall be our Mecca, and we shall ever do him honor."

General Shelby then stated that St. Louis withdrew her claim
as the next meeting place of the convention in favor of Nashville.

GENERAL JACKSON's SPEECH. •

Major General W. H. Jackson, better known as "Old Bed,"
was the next speaker for Nashville. He said: I rise to second the
nomination of my gallant friend, General Shelby, for Nashville

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as the place for this convention to meet in 1897. But before I
get started in my speech, I wish to s ly for the benefit of the ladies,
as an inducement for them to come to Nashville, that I am not
a "Bachelor" like my friend. General Kyd Douglas, but a "Young
Widower."

Here are resolutions from the Gevernor of Tennessee, from the
Mayor and City Council of Nashville, the Ladies' Association, and
every other association within its boundaries. I invite my comrades
to join us there on Tennessee's centennial anniversary into the sis-
terhood of the States.

Tennessee is a State that has been the Volunteer State through
all time. From the Alleghanies to the Golden Gate of the Pacific
she has been the advance guard of civilization and the rear guard
of Revolution. She is one of the sistews of the Confederacy. Know-
ing that she would bear the brunt of war. she did not hesitate to
go out; and, of a total enrollment of 600,000 troops in the Confeder-
ate army, Tennessee furnished 115,000, over one-sixth. (Ipplause.)
It is she that assisted you Floridians in driving out the Seminoles;
it was she that played a great part in opening up the mouth of the
Mississippi to you Louisianians. She has contributed largely to
both the civil and military glory of this great country of ours, fur-
nishing to all the country Jackson and Polk, and to the State of
Texas a Houston. (Applause.)

A DAUGHTER OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA.

Many of you here are sons of Tennessee, who have settled in
other States, and she herself is a daughter of Virginia and North
Carolina. All honor to old Virginia ! No man can surpass me in
love and affection for Virginia; for all my ancestry repose on her
sacred soil. And to Baltimore and Maryland— my good friend, all
honor to your State ! I am sorry that I cannot be with you next
year, for the hospitality of Baltimore is boundless, and the first
sweetheart I ever had was a girl of Baltimore. But you must come
with us to Nashville, and be with us at the reunion of 1897.

LOVES OUR SOLDIERS.

Tennessee loves the Confederate soldier, and there is no place
that surpasses Nashville in her affection for him. She has cared, in
a manner unsurpassed by any State, for her Confederate veterans.
Her Confederate dead have been collected and placed in glorious
graves, and old and young, maid and matron, go every year and
place flowers upon their graves.

Our houses will be open for you, our hearts, and our homes,
and you will find there a welcome no't even surpassed by the grand
old city ©f Richmond. Especially do we want you with us when
we are celebrating our one hundredth anniversary of our capital
city of Tennessee. I hope it will be the pleasure of this convention
to meet in Nashville in 1897.

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General Chalaron of Louisiana seconded the nomination of
Nashville, as did North Carolina by Hon. A. C. Avery, also Georgia.

"Are there any other nominations ?" inquired tbe Commanding

General. There being no reply the call of tbe States was begun, with

the following result:

Baltimore. Nashville.

Arkansas 55

District of Columbia 12

Florida ' • 46

Georgia '"

. Indian Territory 14

Kentucky °4

Louisiana 1"*

Maryland i8

And when the good old State of Maryland was called, Captain
Stauv arose and withdrew the city of Baltimore from the coutest,
and cast the vote of Maryland for Nashville, moviug that that city be
made the unanimous choice of the convention. This brought General
Kyd Douglas of Baltimore to his feet, who, in the course of his re-
marks, said :

"Mr. Chairman, the next best thing to fighting well is to surren-
der gracefully. From the time that the Silk-Stocking Brigade of Ma-
ryland saved Washington at Long Island until the time when the
Maryland Line laid down their arms at Appomattox our soldiers have
always tried to do their duty manfully in war, and gracefully in time
of peace. On behalf of the Maryland delegation. I move that Nash-
ville be unanimously selected by the United Confederate Veterans
as the next place of meeting."

This was unanimously agreed to, and there was prolonged
cheering over the victory Tennessee's capital had achieved .

Comrade G. N. Saussy of Florida offered the following resolution;

Whereas, the severe heat of the present season, admonishes us
of the necessity of selecting a date more conducive to the personal
comfort of the veterans and visitors, therefore be it

Resolved, That the next annual session of the United Confederate
Veterans shall not be later than the middle of May, 1897, and it is
the wish of this convention that the 12th of May be the date of the
opening session.

Moved, as a substitute, that date of meeting be left to the Com-
mittee of Arrangements.

Chaplain J. Wm. Jor,es raised a point of order that the discus-
sion was entirely irrelevant, as it was the established custom to leave
the date to the Commanding General, and Department Commanders.

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GENERAL LEE WIRES CONGRATULATIONS.

General Gordon, at this stage of the proceedings, caused the
wildest sort of enthusiasm by reading tbe following cablegram by
General Filzhugh Lee, now Consul-General of the United States at
Havana:

Habana, Cuba, 3:30 p. m., June 30th.
General Gordon, Richmond, Va.:

From a foreign shore a comrade sends greetings to his brother
soldiers, and Lis best wishes for their health, happiness and pros-
perity. FITZHUGH LEE.

General Wise announced that a grand concert, of over §00
voices, would be held in the ball, at 8 o'clock that night, and all
were invited and expected to attend. Also that the following morn-
ing at 10 o'clock, the Commander-in-Chief in this hall would award
the diplomas to the graduates of the Virginia Military University,
of which Stonewall Jackson was once the commandant.

OLD OFFICERS RE-ELECTED.

General Gordon here resigned the Chair to General Wm. H.
Jackson of Tennessee, and the convention then, upon motion, went
into the election of officers for the ensuing year, and General Pey-
ton Wise spoke as follows:

Mr. Chairman, if there be any whiter, taller and fairer plume
that has danced before this convention than that which dances to
the name of Gordon, I do not know what it is. If there be one
thing in my Confederate prayers, I thank God for, it is that out of
those who led us to victory in times past, He has preserved to us,
with his battle scarred face, John B. Gordon. I move that all the
present officers of the United Confederate Veterans be re-elected by
acclamation, for I am perfectly satisfied with all of them.

Colonel Jno. P. Hickman of Tennessee, seconded the nomina-
tions

General Jackson in the Chair. Is the convention ready for the
question. All in favor of the motion will say aye. Contrary, no.
The motion is carried unauimously.

Colonel Jno. P. Hickman moved that the old officers be elected
by acclamation.

The Chair, General Jackson. The motion prevails, and it is my
great pleasure to announce to General John B. Gordon and his gal-
lant department commanders, their re-election. Cheers and cries for
Gordon.

General John B. Gordon said :

Comrades: If I had all the eloquence that ever came from
Southern tougues, from the time that Patrick Henry spoke of liberty
and his deathless words leaped into life, to the time that Ben Hill, of
my State, vindicated the Confederates on the floor of Congress, I
could not express to you, my comrades, my appreciation of this honor.
God bless you, my comrades, and know that my heart, head, hand
and life itself is at your command. (Continued applause).

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Comrade Monroe of Louisiana, said he would like to know some-
thing about adopting a United Confederate Veteran button which
could be copyrighted, to be a uniform one, to be worn by members
of the United Confederate Veterans Camps only, and that a commit-
tee sbould be appointed to attend to this matter.

Quartermaster General Shipp, here handed Secretary Hickman
his report in regard to the button, as follows:

• Headquarters, Quartermaster General's Office, 1

Chattanooga, Tenn., June 27, 1896. \
General Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, U. G. V.'s.

General — In my report to the last annual meeting at Houston,
Texas, I recommended that the matter of rates and transportation
for our annual re-union be handled by the Quartermaster Generals
of each State division of the respective departments, for the reason
that distant points should be given a longer limit and lower rate
proportionally than near by points. I would recommend the same
plan be pursued in the future for coming meetings.

For matters of detail, I find it more satisfactory for the local
Camps, in most instances, to deal direct with the local passenger
agents representing transportation lines. I would advise against
departments or camps establishing any one line as the official route.
Such arrangements as a general rule are not productive of the best
results and besides it is unfair to competing lines, who join in making
the rate.

The society badge or button has long been a matter of much
concern to this department. I began four years ago to have the old
design protected by copyright, but found that society badges could
not be copyrighted. I then took the matter up with the Patent office
department, and after considerable correspondence, I filed an appli-
cation for the protection of the old design. This was attended with
long deiay, and was finally informed that tbe design was not patent-
able. I then submitted the present design and was informed it would
likely pass. I filed applications and drawings the 19th of October,
1895, and have just 'been informed that the papers would be sent in a
few days as the application had been favorably passed upon. The
patent will be granted in my name as Quartermaster General of the
United Confederate Veteraus, for the exclusive use of the Association.
I will state in conclusion that the object in changing from the old
design, was to get something that could be controlled for the exclu-
sive use of Camps belonging to the United Confederate Veteran Asso-
ciation, and yet retain the main features of the old.

This badge can only be had by an order from the Commander,
Adjutant or Quartermaster, of a Camp in good standing, on the Quar-
termaster General of the United Confederate Veterans. The price of
buttons as follows: Solid Gold, $1.00; Gold Plated, 50 cents each,
made of best material and workmanship.

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I have furnished up to this date, buttoDs of the new design:

Solid Gold 180

Gold Plated. 72

All of which I very respectfully submit,

J. F. SHIPP,
Quartermaster General U. C. V.'s

General Cbalaron of Louisiana said: The Constitution pre-
scribes the button to be worn by members of the United Confederate
Veterans. I am opposed to any departure from the Constitution.

Colonel Hickman then moved that the Association adopt the
button worn by General Shipp and himself, which is the same refer-
red to in the Quartermaster-General's report.

General Chalarou of Louisiana: Mr. President, I am opposed
to this motion, as ninety days' notice has not been given, as the
Constitution provides.

Colonel Hickman: Then, Mr. President, I now give notice that
I will submit the matter changing the button at the next Reunion.

Chaplain-General J. Wm. Jones here said the Convention would
like to hear from Lieutenant-General Cabell.

General Cabell: My Comrades, it is too late to make a speech,
but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great honor you
have shown me by electing me to the command of the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department. I pledge you my word it shall be my aim to do
as much in the future as I have in the past. I have seen my de-
partment grow from a small beginning with no camps at the Chatta-
nooga Reunion in 1890, up to 357 at present, and I pledge you to
contiuue to work for the brave men who stood shoulder to shoulder
with me, in the hour of peril, as long as I live, as this is the sixth
time you have honored me with the command of the brave men in
the Trans-Mississippi Department. I return you my heartfelt thanks
for this continued evidence of your confidence, and now I serve notice
that next year I will carry to Nashville more than one-half of all the
camps which will be represented there. (Great applause.)

Colonel C. C. Flowerree of Vicksburg offered following resolu-
tion, which was seconded and unanimously carried:

Be it Resolved, That we, the delegates of 860 United Confederate
Veteran Camps, located in every Southern State, and in many of the
Northern States and in the Territories, hereby give our hearty en-
dorsement to the Bill now before Congress looking toward the estab-
lishment of a National Military Park upon the historic battlefield of
Vicksburg, Miss., to be commemorative alike of the valor of both
Union and Confederate soldiers, and pledge ourselves to give all the
aid in our power to assist in having this patriotic bill passed, and
request all of our senators and congressman to sanction the bill, and
bend their united efforts to have it passed at the next session of
Congress.

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118

When Dr. J. William Jones raised a point of order, stating that
a Committee on Eesolutions had been appointed, which should take
charge of all resolutions, and that a number of resolutions had just
beenoffered in a rather loose manner. The point of order was con-
sidered to be well taken, but the Chair said: The Chair knows no
way of avoiding the passage of any resolutions, if unanimous consent

be given. .

Colonel Hickman of Tennessee offered the following resolution
which was unanimously adopted:

Whereas, the Adjutant General in his report suggests the ap-
pointment by the general commanding of a son of a veteran to see
that all Sons of Veterans are properly organized as auxiliaries of the
United Confederate Veterans; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the general commanding shall appoint a son of a
veteran to have perfected the organization of the Sons of Veterans, in
conformity with the suggestions contained in said report.

The report of R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Sons of United Confeder-
ate Veteran's of Richmond, Va., was read and referred to the Histori-
cal Committee, which is as follows:
To the Sixth Annual Convention of the United Confederate Veterans.

Comrades-On August 29th, 1895, the undersigned were appointed
as History Committee to carry out the following resolution:

Whereas there is used as a text-book in the public schools of our
city a history of the United States called "Barnes' Brief History of
the United States,'' which purports to be a true and unbiased history
of our common country, but which, as a matter of fact, is grossly
biased and untrue in its statement of undisputed facts of history, all
of which we stand ready to prove before any fair-minded man in this
country; therefore,

R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Sons of Confederate Veterans, feels from
its own experience the necessity of having the rising generation
taught from text-books on history that give the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, giving, unbiased, the important facts of
oar history, reflect on whom they may and sees the folly of teaching
Southern children from text- books that make their fathers slave-
drivers, traitors and rebels, when these deductrionr are not borne out
by the facts, we anathematize Barnes' History as being totally unfit
to be used in the public schools of our city, and call on our City
School Board to at once take steps to discontinue its use:

Resolved, That a committee of three members from this Camp be
authorized to lay this matter before the said School Board, requesting
them to discontinue its use.

Eesolved, That we will uphold the said School Board in any move
it may make to comply with this request.

Eesolved, That we ask R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Vete-
rans, and George E. Pickett Camp, Confederate Veterans, to work
with us to attain this end.

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Resolved, That we endorse the histori€s examined and approved
by the History Committees of the United Confederate Veterans and
Grand Camp Confederate Veterans of Virginia as suitable to be used
in our schools.

Resolved, That through the public press we ask all the principals
of private schools to adopt any one of the histories approved by the
above History Committees.

Resolved, That R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Sons Confederate Vete-
rans, hereby announces its purposes not to rest satisfied until
Barnes' History is eliminated from use as a ttxt-book in our school?.
This committee organized and requested Rev. J. Wm. Jones to
review "Barnes' Brief History of the United States," copy of which
review is appended herewith. These resolutions and review were
sent to every Confederate Camp then existing and to the principals
of schools and school boards throughout the South.

The committee are happy to say that they have met with
flattering success in their efforts to have only unbiased histories
taught our Southern school children, and there was such a demon-
stration of disapproval of "Barnes'' and histories of that ilk, that in
numbers of cases they were immediately done away with.

Your orators believe that by concerted action of your Conven-
tion, the last biased history will be expunged from use in Southern
schools, and our children will then believe that their fathers were
not traitors and rebels, and did not fight to uphold slavery, but did
fight to uphold principles which were the foundation and corner-
stones of our government.

Your orators believe that you will not turn a deaf ear to this
appeal, but will pass such ringing resolutions as will compel every
camp in your jurisdiction to see that local school boards use unbi-
ased histories, which give the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, without fear or favor. When this is done, your
actions will be vindicated by your children, and the Confederacy
will not have to be apologized for whenever they enter into conver-
sation on the subject.

The gross igoorance of Southern children as to the causes
which brough on the war, and the principles for which you fought,
we lay to the use of such histories as those we anathematize, and if
you expect your children ever to honor and vindicate your mem-
ory, these histories wTill have to be eliminated from use in our
schools.

F. W. MAHOOD, Chairman;
EDWIN COURTNEY,
EDWIN P. COX.

History Comviiliee R. E. Lee Cam]) No. 1, S. C. V.

The convention, on motion of Chaplain-General J. William Jones,
then adjourned until 10 o'clock next morning.

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THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

Thursday, July 2d, 1896.

At 10 o'clock the old veterans of the Confederate States met in the
big Auditorium at the Exposition Grounds for the purpose of closing
the session of the Sixth Annual Convention of the United Confederate
Veterans. While the gathering was not quite as large as that on the
two previous days, owing to the preparation for the parade in the
afternoon, yet the meeting was a particularly bright and interesting
event. Many of the old veterans, worn out by the fatigue, etc., of
the two previous davs, were apparently enjoying some well-deserved
rest when General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, brought down his
gavel to open the proceedings of the last day, ten minutes after the
hour fixed for the meeting. About two or three minutes before the
great assemblage was called to order the cadets of the Virginia Mili-
tary Institute, in command of Colonel Price, of the United States
Army, and headed by their band, entered the hall, and under the
cheers of an appreciative multitude, took seats in the front rows
awaiting adjournment so General Gordon could deliver them
their diplomas, which he did in a beautiful address, exhorting them
to hold Stonewall Jackson as their great examplar.

In approaching the front of the platform General Gordon was
also tendered an enthusiastic ovation by the thousands assembled.

The proceedings were opened with a most fervent Confederate
prayer by Rev. Dr. James P. Smith, of this city, who was on General
"Stonewall" Jackson's staff during the late unpleasantness. Dr.
Smith's invocation was fervent and eloquent, calling down the Divine
blessings upon the battle scarred soldiers of the South and upon this
whole people, and praising the Heavenly Father for a gloriously re-
united land.

A TRKUTE TO RICHMOND.

When Dr. Smith had concluded his prayer General Gordon
explained that but little business remained to be transacted, and said:
I cannot fail to take this occasion, however, on behalf of the comrades
here assembled, to return to this grand city and its glorious people
[applause) and this old mother of us all, Virginia (cheers), for grate-
ful acknowledgments which your hearts are making for this beautiful
and lovely occasion which they have given us. I want to say to you,
my comrades, as my heart is saying with every throb, that these occa-
sions are good for us. [Applause.)

There is not an old man, nor a young one, nor a maiden, nor a
matron, who has witnessed the scenes which have blessed our eyes,
but will go away from this great occasion a better, grander, and a
nobler man and woman. (Applause.)

1. should pity the heart. I should feel like bowing my head and
asking God to pardon the poor creature who could witness what our
eyes have witnessed, and feel what our hearts have felt, without real-
izing that these people mean nothing but good to thier country and
mankind. (Applause.]

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May God, who blessed us in the past, bless all these great people,
who have blessed us on this occasion. (Cheers. )

And now I must ask that the order of proceediDgs, short though
they may be, may be listened to with silence, in order that we may
soon dispatch it, and attend to these joung boys, who are to take our
places. (Great applause )

SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT.

Surgeon General C. H. Tebault's report was received and
adopted.

No. 7 North Lafayette Square, )
New Orleans, June 25, 1896. j
General J. B. Gordon,

Commanding United Confederate Veterans,

Sixth Annual Reunion at Richmond, Va.

Dear General : — I have the honor to report that my appoint-
ment to the high trust and distinction of Surgeon General, U. C.
V., came too close upon the present annual meeting of the United
Confederate Veterans to permit me to make the report I otherwise
might have rendered to this grand Reunion.

At the very threshold of the account I am about to present, let
me express my own heartfelt sorrow, in common with all true Con-
federates, at the losses by death our Association has sustained
during the past year, and among others that of the lamented Sur-
geon General Joseph Jones, my predecessor, who passed away ripe
in honors, beloved by all who knew him, and as true and devoted a
Confedererate as our heroic and immortal and constitutionally sus-
tained cause possessed.

The shortness of my appointment has not enabled me to look
up the existing data which will supply the mtdical record of the
Confederate surgeons of the Department of Virginia, and of that of
the Trans-Mississippi Department. With respect, however, to the
Department of Tennessee, almost, if not absolutely complete his-
tories of the great historic work, with the names of the Southern
surgeons, both in the field and in the splendid hospital service of
this departmtnt of the Confederacy, have, been preserved intact in
original hands— that of Confederate surgeon A. J. Foard, and of
Confederate surgeon S. H. Stout. The former, Surgeon A. J. Foard,
Medical Director of Army of Tennessee, gives a record by name of
some twelve hundred and forty-eight surgeons reporting to and
assigned by him to various posts of duty.

I shall deem it most proper to furnish a brief history at this
point of the Medical Director just above named. Resigning from the
United States service, Surgeon A. J. Foard was assigned to duty in
the Confederate service, April, 1861, at Pensacola, Florida, as Medi-
cal Director of General Bragg's command; March, 1862, assigned

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Medical Director of army at Corinth, Mississippi; continued as
Director of Army of Mississippi under General J. E. Johnston
Was assigned to command of Western Department in December,
1862, when he was made Medical Director of General Johnston's
command, embracing East Tennessee and Generals Bragg's and
Penberton's Departments. Was ordered back to Army of Tennes-
see at Dalton, January, 1864, when General J. E. Johnston took the
command. June 30, 1864, appointed Medical Director Army of
Tennessee; continued so during General Hood's campaign and fol-
lowed all the events of the closing disasters of the war until the
final surrender of the Confederate forces at Greensboro, N. C, May,
1865. Surgeon A. J. Foard was a most efficient, intelligent and
beloved Medical Director. His health was seriously failing him
before the termination of the war, but he remained resolutely at
his post of duty.. The close of hostilities between the States only
briefly preceded his own widely regretted death, which occurred at
Charleston, South Carolina, after a brief sojourn in Baltimore, Md.
Surgeon A. J. Foard left four manuscript books relating to the
medical officers and official orders of the Medical Director's office
of the Army of Tennessee in the hands of the late Surgeon J. P.
Logan, while both were temporarily residing in Baltimore, Md.

In regard to the hospital service in the Department of Tennes-
see, I possess records which show that in July, Ausust and Septem-
ber, 1864, there were located in Atlanta, Georgia, fourteen Confed-
erate hospitals; at West Point, Ga., one ; Greensboro, Ga.,
Milledgeville, Ga., Eufaula, Ga , Simsville, Ga., each one hospital;
Augusta, Ga., eight hospitals; Andersonville, Ga., the Confederate
States Military Prison, Americus, Ga., two hospitals; Barnesville,
Ga., five hospitals; Cuthbert, Ga., three hospitals; Columbus, Ga.,
four hospitals; Covington, Ga., two hospitals; Edonton, Ga., two
hospitals; Fort Gaines, Ga., three hospitals; Forsythe, Ga., seven
hospitals; Griffin, Ga., five hospitals; Macon, Ga., eight hospitals,
and at other points in Georgia, twenty-eight hospitals; and at
Athens, Ga., our ophthalmic hospital, Surgeon Boiling A. Pope in
charge. At Auburn, Ala., Eufaula, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., seven
hospitals, and at Notasulga and Union Springs, Ala. three hos-
pitals. All these hospitals were splendidly administered consider-
ing the limited means at the command of the Confederate surgeon.

The surgeon who finally became Medical Director of the Hos-
pitals of the Department of Tennessee, Surgeon S. H. Stout, had
studied military surgery and the regulations of the United States
Army and Navy, prior to 1848, early in which year he was commis-
sioned assistant surgeon in the navy by President Polk. At the
time the commission was issued, the Mexican War was about closing
and the recipient of it declined entering the naval service.

When General A. S. Johnston took command of the Army of
the West and announced Dr. David W. Yandell, as Medical Direc-
tor, Surgeon Stout because of his previous study and preparation
had the only regimental hospital at Bowling Green, organized and

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administei'ed in accordance with army regulations. That hospital
was used as an object lesson for the instruction of surgeons unac-
quainted with the regulations. From the regimental service Sur-
geon Stout was transferred to the general hospital service at Nash-
ville, in October, 1861. He remained there until after the fall of
Fort Donaldson in February, 1862, and witnessed the stampede
from Nashville on that memorable Sunday. He was now ordered
to Chattanooga to take charge of the hospitals there, when General
Bragg, then in command of the Army of Tennessee, passed through
that plaee en route to Kentucky, by order from his headquarters
Surgeon Stout was designated superintendent of all the hospitals
in his command reports being required to be made to the Medical
Director of the Army, Surgeon A. J. Foard, who superseded Sur-
geon D. "W. Yandell, when General Bragg assumed command of the
army, Surgeon Yandell having been assigned as medical director of
Hardee's corps. In February, 1863, the War Department created
medical directorships of hospitals. Thus the direction of them
was taken out of the hands of the medical directors of armies.
Surgeon Stout accordingly by order of the War Department, was
made medical director of the hospitals of the Army and Department
of Tennessee, being required to report direct to the Surgeon-Gene-
ral, and not through the medical director of the army in the field.
This position Surgeon Stout held until the termination of the war.
I now quote from ex-Medical Director Stout, of the hospitals of the
Army and Department of Tennessee:

"*Froin the time he (Stout) entered the ssrvice it was his custom
to preserve duplicates of his reports, and cppies of all orders, and
circulars received by him; also, all tha original reports from subor-
dinate officers (from which were made out his consolidated reports)
his own circulars and all his official and non-official correspondence.
These he had securely packed in boxes, and fortunately has them
now in possession." He writes that "he was profoundly impressed
from its incipiency, with the probable magnitude of the war and
the importance of preserving every document of an official character
that might prove to be o£ value to future historians and to science."

He continues: "Inasmuch as the records of the Surgeon-Gen-
eral's office were bmrned at Richmond, in April, 1865, these official
papers are of inestimable value to science and to history. They
have been held as a sacred trust, in justice to the hard worked,
faithful, self-dening, skillful officers who served so cheerfully and
enthusiastically under the writer's directions, for whom after the
lapse of twenty-eight years, his admiration and affectionate regard
have undergone no abatement. The organization of the hospitals
of the Army and Department of Tennessee was unique, and in many
of its features new departures. No one save the writer and Dr. A.
J. Foard, Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee, if alive,
could do justice to those who served in it. Frequent applications
having been made by parties desiring to have access to official
papers in his possession, the writer corresponding with Dr. Foard

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prior to his death in regard to the propriety of granting these
requests. His reply was: No! You and I are the only persons
who can do justice to those who served so faithfully and efficiently
under us. You and I will jointly do the needed work. The death
of Dr. Foard was a disaster. He was a most skillful surgeon, a
noble gentleman, a genius as an organizer, and an eminently just
officer. Whether the writer will be able unaided to perform the
work proposed remains to be seen. Of this all maybe assured:
it is his desire to be truthful and just."

These words from the able ex-Medical Director of Hospitals
of the Army and Department of Tennessee were penned to, and
appeared in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, 1893,
page 225. Three years have now elapsed since then, and this most
worthy surgeon and gentleman is growing older and the valuable
papers still remain in his keeping. More than four hundred Con-
federate surgeons served in this Hospital Department of the Army
of Tennessee, and the vast work performed is incalculable in its
value.

Respecting the manuscript volumes above referred to prepared
by the Medical Directors of the Armies of Mississippi and Tennessee,
and chiefly by Surgeon A. J. Foard, my late predecessor, Surgeon-
General Joseph Jones, lately deceased, reports that "These manu-
scripts were placed in my possession by my esteemed friend Dr. J.
P. Logan, of Atlanta, Ga., as will be seen from the following com-
munication : —

"Yellow Sulphur Springs, )

Montgomery County, Va., July 25th, 1890. J
"Prof. Joseph Jones, M. D.,

"My Dear Sir — Your highly esteemed favor of the 18th inst.,
addressed to me at Atlanta, Ga., has reached me here where I am
spending some time for the benefit of my health, which has been,
seriously impaired, though now much improved. I am obliged to
you for the reports, etc., and regret that I am not able to aid you
in connection with any records whatever in regard to which you
inquire, not having retained any of my own reports, and not being
able to refer to any source from which you could obtain the inform-
ation sought. I transferred some records of medical officers be-
longing to Dr. A. J. Foard, formerly Medical Director of Confeder-
ate States Army some time since to Major Sidney Herbert, connec-
ted with the Atlanta Journal, a newspaper, with the understanding
that they were designed for Surgeon-General Joseph Jones, U. C.
V. Those records did not contain, so far as I can recollect, anything
more than the names of medical officers serving in District Depart-
ment, and were left by him in my care at the time of his death, in
Baltimore (where I happened to be), to be transferred to Lieuten-
ant-General Jos. E. Johnston, who thought they would be of no
service to him, and left them in my hands.

Yours truly, J. P. LOGAN."

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Again, the late lamented Surgeon-General Joseph Jones,
reports: "I visited Professor J. P. Logan at his home in Atlanta, in
1891, shortly before his death. He stated that after the Civil War
(1861-1865) during his residence in Baltimore, Md , Dr. A. J. Foard,
formerly Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee, who was in
feeble health, before leaving for Chai'leston, S. C , left four manu-
script books relating to the medical officers and official orders of the
Medical Director's office of the Army of Tennessee, in his hands for
preservation. Dr. Logan as Post Surgeon of Atlanta, in 1863-1864;
of Augusta, Ga., in 1864-1865, placed these manuscript volumes in
my possession in order to aid my labors in behalf of the medical
corps of the Confederate Army." Thus I have officially located the
the valuable histories preserved by the Medical Director of the
Army, and by the Medical Director of the Hospitals, Department of
Tennessee.

I am compelled to close my report here, but will add a few
concluding words.

During the first two years of the war whenever the Confederate
surgeon was made a prisoner while at his post of duty, his instru-
ments, for professional work, were taken from him, and during the
entire period of the war all medicines were made contraband of war,
though thousands of Federal prisoners were held by the Confeder-
acy because the Federal authorities refused to exchange them.

The record will show that prior to the immediate surrender of
the Confederate armies, the number of Federal prisoners captured
much exceeded the captures made on the side of our then enemies,
and that in spite of this important fact, and though medicines were
contraband of war, the casualties, by death, of prisoners held by
the Southern Confederacy, were far less, than the death rate of Con-
federate prisoners held by the United States government, with un-
limited means at its command.

This proclaims the greater care bestowed upon the helpless
prisoners of war held by the Confederate government, over that
shown by the Federal government in the case of the Confederate
prisoners whose exchange that government refused.

And this fact establishes at once the great skill, attention and
devotion of the Confederate surgeon to his christian obligation,
and his humanitarian profession.

Most respectfully and fraternally submitted,
C. H. TEBAULT, M. D.,

Surgeon-General, U. G. V.

The Chair recognized Comrade S. Dutcher, of Augusta, who,
by order of Camp 485, United Confederate Veterans, Augusta,
presented a

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MEMORIAL

To the United Confederate Veterans.
Brethren:— Camp 435, U. C. V., of Augusta, Georgia, petitions
you to change the name of this organization from United Confed-
erate Veterans to the "Confederate Survivors' Association," so that
hereafter instead of U. C. V., it will be C. S. A., Camp No. 1, Camp
No. 2, and so on.

We are aware of the reasons which originally led to the adop-
tion of the U. C. V. At that time there was no general organiza-
tion, and as most of the local societies were called Confederate
Survivors' Associations, the general organization was termed
United Confederate Veterans to prevent confusion.

But the original reasons have now ceased to exist. The local
organizations have now come into the general organization, and the
general organization should henceforth be known as the C. S. A.

The U. C. V., while a useful term to meet a temporary emer-
gency, has no history and no precious memories of the past. It was
never imprinted on the Cenfederate soldier's belt plate nor blazed
upon his button. If our dead comrades were to come to life they
would fail to recognize our present insignia. They would say:
What does the U. 6. V. mean ? We know it not.

But change the name to the C. S. A. and the living and the
dead alike can greet it with a fond, affectionate salutation. It
stands for Confederate Survivors' Association. The word Associa-
tion means a band of friends; the word Confederate speaks glori-
ously for itself; the word Survivor points reverently to the good
Cod who shielded our heads in the day of battle and has mercifully
prolonged our lives to the present hour.

C. S. A. stands also for the Confederate States of America, and
happy would this people be if the wise restraints of the Confederate
Constitution were of force now throughout the length and breadth
of the land.

C. S. A. stands, too, for another name that shines like the
planet Mars in imperishable glory. At the sound of those three
letters there flashes upon the dazzled imagination of the world the
dashing cavalry, the steady cannoneers, the dauntless infantry of
the Confederate States Army.

Brothers in Arms! we are not long here. For the time still
left us, when we meet to renew the recollections of the days of our
youth and glory, let us meet under the beloved, the illustrious
name of the C. S. A.

Unanimously ordered by Camp 435, June 22d, 1896.

F. E. EVE, Commandant.
GEO. K McLAUGHLIN, Adjutant.

Moved and seconded and passed unanimously that copies of
this memorial be sent to the different camps with the request that
such action may be taken as may seem to them best, and report
the same at the next Reunion.

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iladelphia Brigade Ass
Philadelphia, June 24, 1896

Philadelphia Brigade Association, )

General J. B. Gordon,

Commander-in-Chief, Confederate Veterans.
Dear Sir: — Through you, I desire to extend a most cordial and
fraternal invitation to the veterans of every Confederate Camp in the
South to attend a Reunion of the Blue and Gray at Washington,
September 16th, and the dedication of the Philadelphia Brigade's
splendid monument on Antietam's battlefield on September 17th next.
I have requested that sincere friend of the Philadelphia Brigade,
General William R. Aylett, of Pickett's Division, to personally request
the veterans of the South to accept the invitation.

I have the honor to enclose a copy of the program.
Fraternally yours,

JOHN W. FRAZIER,
Commander, Philadelphia Brigade Asts'n.

It was moved and seconded that action be taken with reference
to the invitation and that copies of the invitation be sent to the Camps
for such action as they may see fit.

Chaplain General J. YVm. Jones objected.

General Gordon said, The Chair is broad enough and liberal
enough to meet any American soldier on either side, and belongs to
the church that believes in conversion and repentance. There is no
doubt in his mind that we are worthy of the brotherhood of any man
or men; and thinks that liberality and generous confidence on our
part towards our brothers who wore the blue, may yet bring forth
fruit for repentance. Is the convention ready for the question. All
in favor say aye, contrary no. The Chair said; It is unanimously
passed.

General Gordon said:

The Chair will have read the following memorial, which was read
and received and referred to the Monument committee, Colonel
Charles Marshall, chairman:

Anne Lee Memorial Association, )
Alexandria, Va., June 25th, 1896. j
General Jno. B. Gordon.

Dear Sir: — It devolves on me, as secretary of the Anne Lee
Memorial Association, to address you in its behalf.

At a recent meeting, a resolution was passed, asking the Record-
ing Secretary to prepare an appeal to be sent to you in time for the
meeting of the Confederate Veterans in Richmond, in May; and I
have been directed to request you to present it to their notice, and to
urge you to use your influence in awakening among them an interest
in the object of the Association. This is the erection ! by the com-
bined efforts of the women of the South, of a monument in the city
of Alexandria, to the mother of General Robt. E. Lee. Alexandria
had been her home, and near the city, lie all that remains of this
devoted mother.

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Many monuments are being raised in tbe different Southern
States to the memory of those who fought so gallantly, even to the
death, to establish the Confederacy, and in defence of their rights.
In every one of these, we f< el pride and interest, and to that one to
be erected in Richmond to the memory of our loved and honored
President, all will be glad to contribute; but this is, as yet, the only
one which is designed to honor a woman of the Confederacy. True, she
fought no battles, she shed no blood in defence of the cause; but, to her
careful training, which developed in him those noble traits which won
for him the admiration of tbe world, that Confederacy owes the great,
brave and greatly-beloved Commander-in-Chief of her armies, Gen-
eral Robt. E. Lee; and in this work of love of the Anne Lee Memo-
rial Association, we ask and expect all to share, who were interested
in the cause, and who partook of its fortunes for weal or woe; and to
aid, according to their ability, in providing the fund.

"Will you kindly favor us by reading this appeal to the Veterans,
and urging them to aid the women of the South in their work.

I enclose a number of appeals, which have been prepared for the
use of the Association; begging you will have them distributed among
the members of the different Camps assembled.

ALICE E COLQUHOUN,

Secretary of Anne Lee Memorial Association.
By order of the Board.

The Chair. — Louisiana extends an invitation for every member of
the Association to go with them to Winchester to the dedication of
their monument.

The Chair directed Colonel Hickman to read the momorial from
Murfreesboro as follows:

Whereas a national park association has been formed by certain
comrades in Tennessee in connection with former Union soldiers and
citizens of the State, having for its purpose the conversion of the
battlefield of Stone's river into a national park, and its permanent
preservation as a memorial of the heroism of Union and Confederate
soldiers, therefore;

Be it resokred, that we commend this undertaking to our com-
rades throughout the Union and to the favorable consideration of the
Congress of the United States.

Which was seconded and unanimously carried.

Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Camp No. 9, of Louisiana,
through its President Dr .G. A. Tichenor, asked that the following be
read.

The Chair directed the memorial to be read.

To the United Confederate Veterans :

More than a year ago the Cavalry Association of New Orleans,
Camp No. 9, United Confederate Veterans, proposed the erection of
a noble monument to the "Women of the South.

In 1861 the political leaders of the Southern States acted upon
the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that all govern-
ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed,
and upon the historical fact that the Federal Union was formed by

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the voluntary acts of thirteen free, independent and sovereign
States, each in turn as a political entity, giving its assent through
its representative body to the Federal Constitution. Three of
them withheld their assent for several months, one for over two
years. Three of the States expressly, and all impliedly, reserved
the power to withdraw whenever they severally believed their inter-
ests and rights were endangered.

When the majority in the North denied them the protection to
their property, guaranteed to them in the constitution, and denied
to the Southern people the right to take their property of a certain
kind into the common territory, they thought their interests and
rights were in danger, and their safety and prosperity could be best
subserved by a peaceable withdrawal from a Union which no longer
promised protection. They attempted to withdraw from a compact,
which their adversaries had already violated. Then the Federal
Government began its work of forcible coercion.

To the people of the South this was the armed invasion of their
homeland by a foreign foe . The women of the land girt the sword
on their husbands, brothers and lovers and with tearful eyes and
bleeding hearts sent them forth to defend their homes and fire-
sides. The women of the South would have no poltroons and cow-
ards skulking at home when their couotry called them.

The women managed and controlled the laborers and cultivated
the lands and raised the crops, that fed themselves as well as the
armies in the field. The women tore their fine linen to make band-
ages and lint for the wounded. Fair hands, unused to toil, spun
and wove and knitted from early morning to late at night to make
garments and hose for their loved ones in the trenches.

The delicately raised women learned the art of every manufac-
ture. They acquired the art of making lye and soap; of saltpetre
from the earth of smoke houses and cellars; of gunpowder and per-
cussion caps and cartridges. Their ingenuity and unflagging in-
dustry largely supplied the necessities of the armies in the field,
as well as the wants of the children and servants at home. Their
courage and constancy — sustained not by the glories and honors of
successful conflict — but solely by love of home and country, did as
much to sustain the unequal struggle for four weary years of death
and desolation as the more active bravery of the men in the field,
whose valor has shed imperishable fame on the American name.

When forced by the exhaustion of our resources and over-
whelming numbers to give up the struggle, with loyal hearts and
open arms the women of the South welcomed the returned and
defeated Confederates, and with their gentle love soothed the bit-
terness of defeat and gave them faith and hope which nerved them
to renewed effort in building up again the wasted and desolated
places of our beloved Southern land.

While we commemorate the deeds of valor of our comrades;
while we build monuments to Davis and Lee and Jackson, and to
fallen heroes, who are nameless only for want of opportunity — while
we gather the stones for the historic Battle Abbey of the South,
let us not forget or neglect to commemorate the patient courage,

of the United Confederate Veterans, 1 30

the loyalty, the love and devotion of the noble, pure, true
Avomen whom we reverence and worship.

We therefore ask you, comrades, to adopt the following resolu-
tions:

Resolved, That the United Confederate Veterans assembled at
Richmond, Virginia, endorse the paper presented by the Cavalry
Association of Camp No. 9, United Confederate Veterans, and the
proposition to erect a monument to the women of the South. We
recommend that the comrades from each State which furnished
soldiers to the Southern Confederacy, procure a block of granite or
marble polished and suitably inscribed, to form the base of the
proposed monument and that each State organization be requested
to communicate with Camp No. 9 at New Orleans about size and
style of the stone to be furnished by the State Organization.

Whereas, The noble self-sacrifice, sublimity of character and
grandeur of demeanor of the women of the South know no bounds
and are without a parallel in the history of the world; and,

Whkreas, We recognize and appreciate what they have done to
a degree that finds no expression in words; and,

Whereas, We deem it only proper that their valorous deeds,
equal to any of men, should be properly honored and perpetuated for
all time to come in lasting and spotless marble; so that future
generations may pay proper respect to their lofty and immortal
character; and,

Whereas, The Veteran Confederate States Cavalry Association,
Camp No. 9, has inaugurated a movement for the building of a
monument to the "Women of the South" suitable in grandeur and
character to the theme it shall represent; therefore,

Be it Resolved by the Veteran Camps of Louisiana iu convention
assembled that we endorse the said movement, and pledge our
hearty co operation and support as individuals and as camps to the
grand and laudable undertaking.

Resolved further, That these, or resolutions similar in character
and effect, be introduced at the approaching Convention of United
Confederate Veterans to be held in the city of Richmond, Va., for
the purpose of securing the endorsement of all camps to this noble
and patriotic "labor of love."

I hereby certify the above resolutions were unanimously
adopted by the Convention of the Louisiana Division, United Con-
federate Veterans, assembled, in New Orleans, this 27th day of
June, 1896.

JNO. S. MOORE,

A. A.G., La. Div. U. C. V.

General Gordon said, it is moved and seconded that this
Memorial proposing to build a Monument to "Southern Women"
be referred to the Monumental Committee.

I beg to assure my Confederate Comrades for the Women of
the Southland that this is one Resolution which will not be
neglected.

Moved and seconed that it be adopted by a rising vote, which
was carried by acclamation.

131 Sixth A nnual Meeting and Reunion

TENNESSEE'S THANKS.

The reading clerk then read the following, offered by the Ten-
nessee Division, which was unanimously adopted:

Whereas, on this the occasion of our adjournment, it is right
and proper, and also an exceeding pleasure to recognize the hospi-
tality and courtesies of the city of Richmond and of old Virginia;
therefore,

Resolved, That the united camps, in convention assembled, do
most heartily thank the good people of Virginia fur their grand and
magnificent entertainment, which they have extended to us.

Resolved, That while personal allusions would ordinarily be
deemed invidious, we tbink no one can but agree that special men-
tion of General Wise, Governor O'Ferrall, and the Mayor of the
city of Richmond, who receive our most cordial thanks and the
congratulations of this assemblage

Resolved, That we especially thank the ladies of Richmond for
their accustomed hospitality, and for gracing ov r meeting by their
presence.

Resolved, further, That we will always bear t ateful recognition
of these kindnesses.

Resolved, further, That in the name of Tennessee, of her 115,000
good soldiers, her 500,000 women, as good as live, we invite all our
soldiers to meet with us next year.

The resolutions were adopted amid vociferous applause.

Resolutions of thanks in name of Maryland were also offered,
and unanimously passed.

As General Gordon was about to put the motion to adjourn, a
one armed comrade got up in a chair and said before we adjourn,
I move that this Convention give three cheers for General Gordon,
which were given with a will.

General Gordon: The empty sleeve of that brother stole a
march on me.

The motion to adjourn is now in order, if there is no objection
this our Sixth Annual Convention stands adjourned sine die.

And thus ended the formal proceedings of the greatest reunion
yet held by the survivors of an army whose equal tbe world has
never known — a reunion the memories of which wjII linger in the
minds of old soldiers now paying their last visit to the old Capital,
which they so dearly love, until the last drum beats and they have
answered the final roll-call.

JNO. P. HICKMAN, GEO. MOORMAN,

Reading Clerk. Adjutant General.

MISS A. C. CHILDRESS,

Official Stenographer.
(official )

Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

of the United Confederate Veterans. 132

A PPB JsTJD IX.

Following is itemized statement of receipts and expenditures
referred to in Adjutant- General's Report, page 79.

Geo. Moorman, Adjutant-General,

In account with United Confederate Veterans.

Following amounts of per capita and membership fees are
made up from last report to date of report for the Richmond
Reunion, and are for the year ending April 1st, 1896:

Army of Northern Va Camp No. 1

Army of Tenn

General LeRoy Stafford

Fred Ault l

Ruston

Veteran Confederate States Cav-
alry

Ward Confd. Vet. Ass n

Raphael Semmes

R E. Lee.

Washington Artillery ...... ...

Henry St Paul

Baton Rouge

Iberville

Ben Humphreys

Natchez

J. J. Whitney

Kit Mott

Robert A. Smith

W. A Montgomery .

Isham Harrison

Confd. Hist. Ass'n

Ben McCulloch

Vicksburg

Jos. E. Johnston. . . .

Frank Cheatham

Hillsboro

Maj. Victor Maurin . .

W. J. Hardee

Natchitoches

Mouton

Stonewall Jackson

Palestine

Felix K. Zollicoffer

Albert Sidney Johnston.
Woodville

. 1

P. C.

$17 20

32 20

5 80

5 10

7
7

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( 7 90
{ 2 60

10 00

10 80

22 40

12 80

20 30

4 80

9 80

6 00

2 50

11 50

1 70

5 70

7 80

26
26

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j 2 60
| 2 10

4 10

■ i

22 70

2 30

7 00

3 00

35 00

10 00

12 80

11 00

4 40

7 60

6 00

3 44

5 50

6 00

2 10

133

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Jno. B. Gordon Camp No.

Orange County

Dibrell *

Marion Co Confd. Vet. Ass'n .... "

E. E. Lee

Col. B. Timmons "

Calcasieu Confd. Ve!s "

Jos. E. Johnston "

Sanders "

Jeff Lee "

Albert Sidney Johnston "

Amite City

Kansas City

Joe B Palmer

Barnard E. Bee

Wm. L. Moody

Pat Cleburne

Camp Cabell

Joe Hohnston

John H Morgan

Wm. Preston

Abe Buford

Geo. W. Johnson ,

Ben Desha ,

John C. Breckinridge . .

Ben Hardin Helm

Wiley G Post

Jno B. Hood ,

Magruder

Winnie Davis ,

Throckmorton

Shropshire Upton

Albert Sidney Johnston,

Shackleford Fulton

Albert Sidney Johnston

Jeff Davis

Jos. E. Johnston ,

Beauvoir

Bell Co. Ex-Confd. Ass'n

L. F. Moody » .

J. B. Robertson .........

Robt. E. Lee

Young County

Jno. G. Walker

Sul Ross

Camp Bee . .

100

101

102

103

105

108

109

112

113

114

115

116

117

119

120

122

123

124

125

127

128

129

130

P. C.

4 50

2 00

6 70

6 40

8 00

4 40

6 00
1 40
6 80
3 00

of the United Confederate Veterans. 134

JobnM.Stone Camp No. 131 P.O. $ 2 50

Milton tc 16i n y"

JamesL.Hogg „ \f „ *f

Gen'l J. W. Starnes lo4 .4 «

Ex-Confd. Ass'n Corryell Co « 135 J 10 00

laTL^ock:::::::::::::/.-. - ig." ;; jg

Jno. W. Caldwell << JW , 6 0

D. L. Kenan ' ]f „ 6 20

Crockett.... ;;;;;;■;;;;;.;;;;;; „ }g «■* | 550

Camp Rogers « ' iS « q 40

Bowling Green ' lg „ 3 40

Albert Sidney Johnston , 111 J »»

Geo. D. Manion " 145 4 10

BenT. DnVal 140 12 00

C.M.Winkler 47 17 6

GenlJo, Finnegan ; 149 „ 3 00

^?^x-, «152 " 5 60

Eichland yi"' . 0 Qn

W.W.Loring ; J» .',' ad j *™

John a G. Key • ,' «• . « °°

Bessemer ***' Q Kft

R. E. Lee " 158 3 50

Catawba - <] JJg *« g°

Horace Randall J63 2 00

Albert Sidney Johnston 165 ^ 4 w

Claiborne ,. iJa « 1 60

JeffDavis 168 ({ 1 JO

Tom Green "169 h gUO

Washington City Confederate . . " 1.7.1 ( ^ »JJ

?7ulRoss " 176 10 10

Yazoo * ' „ o ,,n

Capt. David H. Hammons " 177 2 60

Winchester Hall ' 178 1 60

W.H.HTison '. . . . 179 ; 2 40

James Longstreet 180 £00

R E. Lee 181 (< 4* '"

Henry W.Allen 82 6 60

John Peck 183 ^ *0

John R. Cooke 184 ; 190

Roger W. Hanson 186 b"

Humphrey Marshall "187 1 00

Thomas BJ Monroe ]' 188 100

W. R. Barksdale ; 189 « 3 30

Lake Providence «« Q

John Donaldson " 105 ^ 3U

135

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Braxton Bragg Camp

Dick Dowling

Koy S. Cluke

Gratiot

Geo. E. Pickett

Magruder, Ewell

J. Warren Grigsby

Thos. B. Collins

Hugh A. Reynolds

DeSoto

Franklin K. Beck

Wilson County

Frank Terry

Buchel

Arcadia

R. E. Lee

Albert Sidney Johnston

John B . Hood

Ector,.

Sylvester Gwin

Auburn

John H. Waller

W. A. Percy

Washington

Gen'l Turner Ashby

Charles M. Shelley

Fred . N. Ogden

Col. James Walker

Camp Sumter

E. Kirby Smith

Patrick R. Cleburne

Thomas H. Hunt

Cape Fear

Elmore County

Pelham

Jos . E. Johnston

Allen C. Jones

James F. Waddell

A. P.Hill

Gen'l Geo. Moorman

Camp McGregor

I. W. Garrett

Lake County Confederate Veter-
ans Association

E. Kirby Smith

Francis S. Bartow

Jasper Hawthorn

Tom Wallace

No. 196

" 197

" 201

" 203

" 204

" 210

" 214

" 215

" 218

" 220

" 224

" 225

" 227

" 228

M 229

" 231

" 232

" 233

" 234

" 235

'• 236

" 237

" 238

" 239

" 240

" 246

" 247

•« 248

" 250

" 251

" 252

" 253

" 254

" 255

" 258

" 259

" 266

" 268

" 269

" 270

" 274

« 277

" 279

" 282

" 284

" 285

" • 289

P. C. $ 7 80

12 80

3 10
20 50

4 30
1 00
1 10
1 50

5 50

7 60

8 10
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3 00
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6 30

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13 50
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4 50
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1 00
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14 90
4 60
6 70

3 00
8 00

4 30

6 20

2 30
4 40
8 90

10 00
2 50

7 65

2 80

3 10

Aiken Smith Camp No. 293

E. A. O'Neil

Willis L . Lang

Andrew Coleman

Jefferson, Lamar

Palmetto Guard

Catesby ApR. Jones

Ike Turner

W. P. Rogers

Stockdale

T. J. Bullock

Camp Sumter

James D. Nance

Peter Bramblett

Florian Cornay

John James

John M. Bradley

Bill Feeney

Omer R. Weaver

Camp Evans

R. Q. Mills

Camp Hughes

Abner Perrin

Gordon

R. H. G. Gaines

Leander McFarland

Gen. James Conner

J. E. Johnston

Mecklenberg ...

Camp Miller

Jeff Davis

Leonidas J. Merritt

Hampton

Robinson Springs

Cap. Perot

Walter L. Keirn

Lowden Butler

J. B. Kershaw

Secession

Red Springs

Horry

Chattooga Veterans
Bryan Grimes

Lamar

Stonewall Jackson.

e Veterans.

136

293

P. C.

$ 9 00

298

13 30

299

7 80

301

3 10

305

6 20

315

3 20

317

9 10

321

7 80

322

3 00

324

9 80

331

7 20

332

5 10

336

10 00

344

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345
345

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j 4 60

1 7 20

350

5 00

352

7 00

353

10 40

354

13 00

355

4 80

360

1 20

365

2 00

367

7 00

369

3 10

370

2 70

373

2 00

374

4 30

377

3 50

382

15 00

385

386

3 00

387

2 00

389

10 10

396

3 20

397

2 00

398

3 80

409

5 10

413

3 70

416

2 00

417

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2 00

417

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2 10

418

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2 00

418

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4 00

422

2 35

424

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j 1 50
1 1 30

424

425

3 60

427

2 30

137 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

Tom Coleman Camp No. 429 P. C. $

D. Wyatt Aiken " 432

George W. Cox "433

Frank Cheatham " 434

Confd. Sur. Assn " 435

Norfleet " 436

Dean "437

Col. S. B. Gibbons " 438

Carnot Posey " 441

Jos. E. Johnston " 442

William Barksdale " 445

Hampshire " 446

Hampton " 450

Harry T. Hays " 451

Manning Austin " 454 "

Sterling Price "456 " 3 00

Lloyd Tilghman ... "463 " 1 00

John Bowie Strange "464 " 10 00

Randolph County " 465 " 4 30

Jno. C. Brown...... " 468

Stonewall Jackson " 469

H.A.Clinch .. " 470

Harry Benbow " 471

Chickamauga " 473

Cobb-Deloney " 478

Winnie Davis " 479

Gen'l Adam R. Johnson " 481

Camp Key " 483

Bibb County " 484

R. E. Lee " 485

CampRuffin " 486

Col. L. C. Campbell " 488

William W. Wadsworth " 491

William Henry Trousdale " 495

Calhoun " 497

Alexander Young " 500

Caddo Mills " 502

Rector " 504

Archibald Gracie " 508

Polignac " 509

J. Ed. Murray; " 510

Page Puller " 512

Junius Danie 1 " 515

Featherston " 517

Ridgley Brown " 518

The Grand Camp Confederate De-
partment of Virginia " 521

Jasper County " 522

4 80

4 40

7 60

4 80

6 00

Henry Gray " 551

Gen'l Jno. S. Marmaduke " 554

Torn Douglas " 555

Tom Moore " 556

Henry E. McCulloch " 557

J. Ed. Kankin . . " 558

Jack McClure "559

Gen'l Jno. W. Whitfield " 560

Ben McCullough . " 563

John Pelham

" 565

Jos. E. Johnston " 566

Bridgeport " 568

Bastrop " 569

Geo. E. Pickett " 570

«. <« <(

West Point Veterans " 571

James C. Monroe " 574

Walton " 575

Douglas Cooper " 576

R. M. Hinson . . " 578

W. N. Pendleton " 579

Gen'l Frank Gardner " 580

Joe Wheeler " 581

Jake Standifer " 582

John R. Baylor " 585

John B. Gregg " 587

of the United Confederate Veterans. 138

The Mountain Remnants of Con-
federate Veterans Camp No. 526 P

Jim Pearce " 527

Hopkins Co. Ex-Confederate Re-
lief Association " 528

Mcintosh " 531

Col. E. B. Holloway " 533

" 533

Camp Rion " 534 "

Elbert Bland ■ "536

Pat Cleburne " 537 "

Camp Cobb " 538 •« , (

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Pearl River " 540 "

Mooresville " 541 "

Martin H. Cofer ..... " 543

Drury J. Brown " 544 "

Gen'l T. M. Scott " 545

Sterling [Price " 547 "

Claiborne " 548

& 4 00

2 00

3 80

2 20

2 60

4 80

4 00

3 60

2 40

1 40

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7 00

5 60

1 40

1 90

15 00

12 40

2 70

6 60

6 40

2 90

5 00

3 60

4 40

4 50

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6 90

2 40

3 70

9 80

3 20

7 30

2 80

4 80

1 70

1 40

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139 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion
Camp Hood * Camp No. 589 P. C.

a cc <c '<

Velasco .7 ..... ... .... .... ,; 502

Capt. I. G. Killough " 593

Lafayette McLaws , " 59G

Richard Coke " 600

John M. Simonton " 602

Austin County " 606

Vermillion " 607

CC " it » "

P. C. Woods!!! ".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. " 609

Rockport " 610

R. S. Gould " 611

Jones County, Texas " 612 •'

John Benson " 613

Camp Lane "614

Marmaduke " 615

John S. Ford " 616 «

H. H. Carlton " 617

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Fort Mason ..!!!! .7.7. ! ....... " 618

Scott Anderson "619

Camp Raguet '• 620

W.P.Lane " 621

N. B. Forrest " 623

San Felipe " 624

Winnie Davis " 625

E. B. Pickett " 626

Jenkins " 627

G. T. Beauregard " 628

John Pelham '• 629

Joe O. Shelby " 630

Montgomery . . * '" 631

FredAshford " 632

Haskell County " 633

Alcibiade Deblanc " 634

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Sweet Springs " 635

Thomas G. Lowry " 636

Gen'l Santos Brunavides " 637 "

Jno. G. Fletcher " 638 «

Walter P. Lane " 639

D. C. Walker " 640

Camp Marion 7. 7... 7.7... ..... " 641

Sumter " 642

Bandera " 643

A. S. Johnston , " 644

5 2 20

4 40

of the United Confederate Veterans* 140

Dock Belk Camp No. 645 P. C. $

Albert Sidney Johnston " 647 "

Lexington " 648

Henry McCulloch " 649

Mexico " 650

Gould " 652

Hardee " 653

Albert Sidney Johnston ■■ 654 "

Jas. R. Herbert " 657

JohnS. Bowen " 659 '.< , J

John B. Clark "660 " , (

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Manor "664

Clarke L. Owen " 666

Camp Texas . . . , " 667

Lexington " 668

Peyton N. Hale " 669

Jones M. Withers " 675 " , (

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Robert Ruff ner " 676

Denson " 677 " , j

Norval Spangler "678 " , j

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Bledsoe " 679

Shanandoah " 680

Zebulon Vance "681 " , j

W. H, Ratcliffe. .'." " 682 " ,j

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William P. Corbin " 683

Maj. John L. Mirick . . " 684

Marmaduke " 685

Bob Jordan "686 ■• ,

C. H. Howard......!.........'.. " 688 " ,

"688 " aa (

Monroe County " 689

Freeman "690

Pleasant Hill " 691

Jo. Wheeler " 692 M. F.

"692 PC.

Hart " 697

Camp Rains " 698

Kerrville . . " 699 "

North " 701 M. F.

" " 701 P. C.

Micah Jenkins " 702 M. F.

10 40

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Micah Jenkins Camp No. 702 P. C. $ 13 00

G.R.Christian "703 " 4 80

Richard Kirkland " 704 " 16 90

Samuel Fulkerson "705 " 15 30

Camp Crittenden "707 " 4 20

William E. Jones "709 " 4 90

JohnPercival " 711 " 2 2*0

Crow " 712 " 3 20

Geo. B. Harper "714 " 3 30

Windsor Guards. "715 " 2 50

J. E.B.Stuart " 716 " ' , j 2 00

"716 " ,t 50

J.J.Searcy "717 " 6 80

J. C. Wood "719 M. F. 2 00

General J. A. Walker " 721 M. F. 2 00

"721 P. C. 4 00

Joe Johnston " 722 " 2 00

William S. Grymes " 724 " 5 90

W.B.Tate " 725 M. F. 2 00

"725 P. C. 4 10

Brown-Harman "726 M. F. 2 00

"726 P. C. 14 00

Caot. Silas R. Crispin "727 " 3 00

Capt. Thomas McCarty "729 « . 2 90

"729 " 5 70

George Doles "730 M. F. 2 00

"730 P. C. 2 20

St.Louis " 731 M.F. 2 00

" 731 P. C. , j 10 10

" 131 " aa| 3 50

C. Irvine Walker "732 M. F. 2 00

"732 P. C. 5 00

John N. Edwards " 733 " 6 00

Col. David Shanks " 734 M.F. 2 00

" 734 P. C. 2 60

M.M.Parsons " 735 M.F. 2 00

"735 P. C. , j 6 20

"735 " a { 2 00

Forsyth " 736 M. F. 2 00

General D. M. Frost - . "737 P. C. f 2 00

"737 " \ 2 30

"737 M. F. ad ( 2 00

Hanging Rock "738 P. C. 1 00

Colonel Pembroke S. Senteny. . . . " 739 M. F. 2 00

" 739 P. C. 2 30

Jim Tillman " 741 M.F. (2 00

"741 P. C. \ 4 30

"741 " ad ( 1 00

Colonel Early A. Stein "742 M. F. 2 00

"742 P. C. 2 90

of the United Confederate Veterans.

142

Kershaw Camp No. 743

" " 743

J. G. Shockley " 744

" " 744

Colonel E. T. Wingo " 745

Franklin Buchanan " 747

" "747

Warthen . " 748

" 748

John McEnery " 749

" 749

Lane-Diggs . " 750

" 750

" " 750

Colonel J- R. Woodside " 751

"751

Lafayette County " 752

" 752

Stephen D. Lee '' 753

" 753

Emmett McDonald " 754

"754

Jim Hagood " 755

'• 755

The Confd. Vets. Assn. of Savan-
nah, Ga " 756

Presley " 757

" " 757

Stonewall " 758

" 758

R. T. Davis " 759

" 759

Captain Ed. Ward " 760

" 760

Ben Holmes " 761

"761

General N. B. Forrest " 762

Marietta " 763

, " 763

Mitchell " 764

McHenry " 765

" . " 765

Henegan " 766

*• 766

A. Burnet Rhett " 767

* ... " 767

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2 50

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2 30

3 00

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2 00

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10 20

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22 70

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M. F.

2 00

P. C,

2 20

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 00

M. F.

2 20

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

6 80

M. F.

2 00

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

3 50

M. F.

2 00

P.C.

3 20

M. F.

2 00

P.C.

3 40

143 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

Arthur Manigault Camp No. 768 M. F. $ 2 00

"768 P. C. 3 GO

Fletcher Smith "769 M. F. 2 00

"769 P. C. 2 60

The Confd. Vet. Assn. of California. " 770 M. F. 2 00

" 770 P C. 11 00

Robt. E. Lee " 771 M. F. 2 00

"771 P- C. 2 00

Stonewall Jackson . . "772 M. F. 2 00

"772 PC. 2 50

George H. Steuart "775 M. F. 2 00

"775 P. C. 2 30

Pat- Cleburne "776 M. F. 2 00

"776 PC. 2 20

Major Kyle Blevins "777 M. F. 2 00

Hugh McCollum "778 M. F. 2 00

"778 P. C. 2 90

Colonel Sol. G. Kitchen "779 M. F. 2 00

"779 P. C. 2 60

Stonewall Jackson " 780 M. F. (2 00

". 780 P. C. 1 2 00

"780 " ad ( 1 60

Walkup " 781 M. F. 2 00

"781 P. C. 6 70

Anderson "782 M. F. 2 00

"782 P. C. 2 60

Hart " 783 M. F. 2 00

« " 783 P. C. 3 30

Maior Jno. Jenkins " 784 M. F. 2 00

"784 PC. 1 10

Darlington " 785 M. F. 2 00

« "785 PC. 17 90

Springfield " 780 M. F. 2 00

" 786 PC. 1 50

General Jas. H. McBride "787 M. F. 2 00

S. S. Harris "790 M. F. 2 00

"790 PC. 2 40

Thomas Ruffin "794 M. F. ( 2 00

"794 P. C. ] 3 30

"794 " ad ( 1 20

Guilford County "795 M. F. 2 00

"795 P. C. 5 50

Surrey County " 797 M. F. 2 00

"797 PC. 2 30

William Richardson "804 M. F. ( 2 00

"804 P. C. 1 7 10

"804 " ad ( 1 80

Jackson "806 M. F. 2 00

Cundiff "807 M. F. 2 00

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144

Cundiff Camp No. 807

Buchel " 808

" " 808

Jake Carpenter " 810

Colonel Jo. Kelly " 811

Healy Claybrook " 812

" 812

Lamar Gibson " 814

Telfair «« 815

" " 815

S. M. Manning " 816

" 816

Dick Taylor " 817

"817

Robert F.Webb « 818

" 818

South Georgia Confd. Veterans. . . " 819

"... " 819

Bartow « 820

" " 820

General Paul J. Semmes " 823

"823

McNeal " 825

" " 825

Jefferson " 826

« 826

Johnson Hagood " 827

" "827

J. H. Berry " 828

" 828

Richmond County " 830

"830

Up Hayes " 831

* •« 831

Fayette " 832

" " 8^2

Walter R. Moore " 833

" " 833

Edwin W. Bellingers " 834

"834

Flournoy » 836

•' 836

A.P.Hill.., « 837

" "837

Jackson « 838

" " 838

Harllee " 840

P. C.

$ 2 00

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

M. F.

2 00

M. F.

2 00

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

3 20

M. F.

2 00

M.F.

2 00

P,C.

1 50

M.F.

2 00

P. C.

5 00

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 40

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

24 90

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

6 00

M. F.

(2 00

P. C.

12 60

ad (1 70

M.F.

2 00

P. C.

2 50

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 50

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 20

M.F.

2 00

P. C.

2 50

M.F.

2 00

P. C.

1 50

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

4 90

M.F.

2 00

P. C.

2 20

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 20

M, F.

2 00

P. C.

2 30

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 30

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

1 40

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

24 70

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

9 70

M. F.

2 00

145 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

Samuel Corley Camp No. 841 M. P. ( $2 00

" "841 P. C. \ 2 90

" "841 " ad ( 1 80

Wick McCreary "842 M. F. 2 00

Jeff Davis "843 " 2 00

« "843 P. C. 2 10

Jno. Shelbv "844 M. F. 2 00

Jno. C. Lamb "845 " 2 00

« <• 845 P. C. 2 10

Anson " 846 M. F. 2 00

« "846 P. C. 6 00

Fons Rogers " 847 M. F. 2 00

« "847 P. C. 2 10

Pink Welch "848 M. F. 2 00

"848 P. C. 2 50

Drysdale "849 M. F. 2 00

"839 P. C. 2 00

Jack McCurtin "850 M. F. 2 00

"850 P. C. 1 50

Ben McCullough " 851 M. F. 2 00

"851 P. C. 2 60

Total amount received $2995 22

E. & O. E. Any amounts omitted will appear in next Report.

EXPENDITURES.
(with itemized and receipted bills attached.)

1895.
May 27 Paid Miss A. C. Childress on account services

Chief Clerk and Stenographer $ 25 00

" 27 " Miss Mary L. Childress as assistant and

for office work, etc 10 00

28 " Postage Stamps 20 00

" 29 " Miss Abby S. Behan, on account as

Assistant, addressing envelopes, etc . . 15 00

31 " Ice for May 1 50

31 " Porter for May 5 00

June 1 " Miss A. C. Childress, on account services,

Chief Clerk and Stenographer 30 00

" 3 " Miss Maud Babia, services as Steno-
grapher , 10 00

«' 3 " A. W. Hyatt, Limited, on account Station-
ery bill 37 65

3 " Postage Stamps 20 00

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1895.
June 3 Paid Hyppolyte Bastile, for services with

Mineograph, etc $ 10 00

« 6 " H. H. Hansell, paper for Mineograph, etc 4 CO

" 6 " H. H. Hodgson, paper for typewritter,

ribbon, efec . . . 2 95

6 " Kockwell, Rupel & Co., Carbon paper.. 3 00

" 6 " Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing 200 00

" 6 " B. Fellman, ribbon for commissions, etc. . 4 50

6 " Julius Weis, rent office three months 45 00

" 10 " For repairs to typewriter 3 50

" 10 " Postage Stamps • • • • • 35 00

" 12 " Hyppolyte Bastile, services with Mimeo-
graph, etc 2 50

" 12 " Western Union Telegraph Company, sun-
dry telegrams 8 45

20 " Postage stamps 20 00

30 " Porter for June ■ •■• 5 00

30 " Ice for June 1 50

«• 30 " Miss A. C. Childress, on account services

as chief clerk and stenographer 30 00

July 2 " Postage stamps ■• • 20 00

15 " Carpenter fixing desks, etc 2 50

'; 27 " Postage stamps .... 20 00

31 " Ice for July 1 50

31 " Porter for July 5 00

Aug. 13 " Postage stamps 15 00

19 " Julius Weis, rent office three months. . . 45 00

31 " Ice for August •• 150

31 " Porter for August 5 00

Sept. 10 " Postage stamps 15 00

26 " Postage stamps 10 00

30 " Ice for September 1 50

30 " Porter for September 5 00

Oct. 16 " Postage stamps 7 00

" 18 " Sprinkler, duster, brooms, etc 2 50

23 " Postage stamps 40 00

" 28 " Postage stamps 30 00

" 28 " Carpenter fixing locks, desks, etc 3 50

" 30 " Miss A. C. Childress on account services

as chief clerk and stenographer. ....... 15 00

" 30 " Postage stamps 10 00

30 " Porter for October . 5 00

30 " Ice for October 1 50

Nov . 1 " Fixing typewriter, repairs, etc 4 00

" 5 " Postage stamps 35 00

" 6 " Postage stamps 20 00

u 7 " For two locks, and fixing three doors ... 3 50

» 13 " Postage stamps 15 00

« 28 " 10 barrels coal 6 00

» 30 " Ice for November 1 50

" 30 " Porter for November 5 00

1 47 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

1895.

Paid Postage stamps $ 12 00

" Porter for extra work arranging office. . . 2 50

" Postage stamps 2 50

" For brooms, clusters, matches, etc 2 50

" Postage stamps 25 00

" Making letter box, Yale locks, etc 5 00

" Postage stamps 5 00

" Postage stamps 12 00

" Ribbon for commissions sundry times. ... 10 00

" Ice for December 1 50

" Porter for December 5 00

Paid postage stamps 20 00

" Miss Loulou Castell, assisting addressing

envelopes, etc 5 00

" Postage stamps 16 00

" Ice for January 1 50

" Porter for January 5 00

" Hyppolyte Bastile, services wi-th mimeo-
graph 12 50

" Postage stamps 15 00

" Lamps, oil, etc 3 30

" Postage "stamps 15 00

" Postage stamps 10 00

" Miss Loulou Castell, assisting addressing

envelopes, etc 5 00

" Postage stamps . . 5 00

" Postage stamps 10 00

" Ice for February 1 50

" Porter for February', 5 00

" Postage stamps 7 50

" Postage stamps 15 00

" Postage stamps 5 00

" A. W. Hyatt Co., Limited, on account sta-
tionery 25 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account printing. ... 25 00

" L Alvarez, postage stamps 50 00

" Miss A. &. Childress, on account of ser-
vices chief clerk and stenographer 15 00

" Julius Weis, five months' rent 75 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

" Ice for March 1 50

" Porter for March 5 00

" Lunch for office ladies for March 6 40

" A. W. Hyatt Co., Limited, on account sta-
tionery 50 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account of printing. . 50 00

" F. F. Hansell & Bro. mimeograph supplies 3 40

" Postage stamps 15 00

Dec.

((

1896.

Jan.

Feb.

((

■ c

March

April

1896.

April

May

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Paid John P. Hopkins, on account of printing.! 50 00
" A. W. Hyatt Co. Limited, on account sta-
tionery 25 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account of printing. 50 00

" Postage stamps 40 00

" A. W. Hyatt Co. Limited, on account sta-
tionery 25 00

" Julius Weis, two months' rent of iffice. . . 30 00

" Sundry telegrams 3 40

" Postage stamps. ... 20 00

" Miss S. H. Priestley, on account addressing

envelopes, mailing, etc 10 00

" Miss A. C. Childress, on account services

as cbief clerk and stenographer 10 00

" Postage stamps 20 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account printing. ... 50 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

" A. W. Hyatt Co. Limited, on account sta-
tionery 25 00

" L. Alvarez, on account addressing envel-
opes, mailing, etc 15 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account printing. ... 50 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account printing.. . 50 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

" Hvppolyte Bastile, services mimeograph,

'etc 20 00

" Ice for April 1 50

" Porter for April 5 00

" Lui.ch for office ladies for April 7 00

" Hyppolyte Bastile, services with mimeo-
graph, etc 15 00

" Hyppolyte Bastile, service with mimeo-
graph, etc 20 00

" Postage stamps 30 00

" A. W. Hyatt Co. Limited, on account sta-
tionery 25 00

" John P. Hopkins, on account printing. ... 25 00

" Julius Weis, two months' rent of office ... 30 00

" Postage stamps 25 00

" Hyppolyte Bastile, .services with mimeo-
graph, etc 15 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

" Miss S H. Priestley, on account addressing

envelopes, mailing, etc 10 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

" John P. Hopkins, account printing 25 00

" Postage stamps 15 00

149 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

1896.

May 16 Paid L. Alvarez, on account addressing envel-
opes., mailing, etc $ 15 00

18 " Postage stamps 10 00

20 " Sundry telegrams 3 50

" 28 " Horace Vallas, use typwriter 5 00

29 " Postage stamps 20 00

" 29 " John P. Hopkins, account printing 25 00

" 29 " Miss Bettie Buck, on account assisting

mailing, etc 5 00

30 " Miss Loulou Castell, services assisting

addressing envelopes, etc 5 00

31 " Porter for May *5 00

31 " Ice for May 150

" 31 " Postage stamps 10 00

31 " Lunch for office ladies for May 9 30

June 1 Paid Postage stamps , . 5 00

2 • • Hyppolyte Bastile, for services with mime-
ograph, etc - 10 00

3 Postage stamps 50 00

6 ' ■ Hyppolyte Bastile, for services with mim-
eograph , etc 10 00

6 ■ • Miss Bettie Buck, on account assisting

mailing, etc 5 00

6 • • Postage stamps 10 00

13 L. Alvarez for postage stamps 50 00

13 L. Alvarez for postage stamps 25 00

12 • • Miss A. C. Childress on account services

as chief clerk and stenographer 25 00

17 • ■ Postage stamps 35 00

20 • • Postage stamps 25 00

25 • • Miss A. C. Childress on account services

as chief clerk and stenographer 10 00

27 • • Miss A. C. Childress on account services

as chief clerk and stenographer 5 00

27 • • Miss Loulou Castell assisting addressing

envelopes, etc

27 ' • Western Union Tel. Co. sundry telegrams
27 • Fare to Richmond and return adjutant-
general and chief clerk 41

27 • For sleeper to Richmond for two, and

extra packages, books and papers

27 • • For meals for two, to and from Richmond
27 • ' Hack hire to and from depot, and extra

help with papers and baggage

30 Ice for June . .

30 • • Lunch for office ladies for June

30 Porter for June ,

252

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1896.
July 2 Paid Express matter to and from Richmond,

books, etc., and porterage $ 11 70

2 • • For sundry telegrams en route, and at
Reunion 16 00

3 • For sleeper for two, Richmond to New
Orleans, extra for books, papers, etc. . . . 10 00

3 • • For various messages at office and Re-
union, and extra help 11 00

3 • • Hack hire four days for headquarters .... 20 00

3 • • Boys for stajing at office, and attention to

it four days 8 50

3 • • Hotel porter for services at headquarters

fixing packages, etc. etc 2 90

3 • • Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, for adjutant-
general and chief clerk 50 25

4 • • Hack expenses Atlanta, missed connection

on return from Richmond 5 50

Amount expended $2910 60

Balance on hand 84 65

[official.] GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff'.

151 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

GENERAL E. KIRBY SMITH FUND.

CIRCULAR LETTER No. 6.

New Orleans, La., April 12th, 1893, \

To all Camps of the U. C. V.'s and all Confederate Veterans. )

Comrades: — The General Commanding, at the solicitation of many
comrades and friends, and through his own appreciation of the
urgency of the case, deems it proper to place before the camps of our
"benevolent brotherhood" the condition in which the family of our
late comrade, the lamented General E . Kirby Smith, the last of the
full generals of the Confederacy, is left by his death.

Rich as he was in honor and fame, in greatness and virtue; he
was very poor in this world's goods.

He had purchased a little home at Sewanee, Tenn., which he had
the misfortune to lose by fire about a year since, the rebuilding and
furnishing of which, with only partial insurance, left an indebtedness
upon it of about twelve hundred dollars.

While he has bequeathed to his countrymen and to posterily a
name pure and unsullied and wreathed with glory; as is well known,
no pension can be secured from thfe Government for the family of this
distinguished American soldier, and no help obtained for them, only
through the gratuity of our comrades and friends.

No appeal has been made for aid by this large and helpless
family; but it has been suggested to the General Commanding that
many veterans would like to contribute if the opportunity offered
and some one would move in the matter; any amount however small
will be gratefully accepted, no one person to give more than one
dollar.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,

Geo. Moorman. General Commanding.

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

New Orleans, La,, October 14th, 1893.

Major General W. H. Jackson,

Commanding Tennessee Division U. C. V.'s, Nashville, Tenn..

My Dear General: — I enclose you herein collections made by
these Headquarters for the benefit of the family of the late General
E. Kirby Smith. I send you the full amounts contributed, having paid
the Exchange myself. If other amounts are sent in, I will forward

of the United Confederate Veterans. 152

same to you at once. Find checks enclosed amounting to §433.75.
Following are the names of the contributors:

Washington Artillery Camp No. 15, New Orleans, La. $100 00

Magruder Camp No. 105, Galveston, Texas 54 50

Washington City Confd. Camp No. 171, Washington, D. C. 50 00
The Woman's Auxiliary Confederate Aid Society, or Woman's

Southern Relief, Washington, D. C 25 00

Ben Humphrey's Camp No. 19, Crystal Springs, Miss 10 00

Beauvoir Camp No. 120, Mississippi City, Miss 5 50

Winchester Hall Camp No. 178, Berwick, La 5 25

W.J. Hardee Camp No. 39, Birmingham, Ala 2 50

Boy S. Clnke Camp No. 201, Mt. Sterling, Ky 1 00

Army of N. Va. Camp No. 1, New Orleans, La 51 00

Major Victor Maurin Camp No. 38, Donaldsonville, La.,

through Army of N. Va. Camp No . 1 25 00

Ben. T. DuVal Camp No . 146, Ft. Smith, Ark 25 00

Franklin K. Beck Camp No. 224, Camden, Ala . 10 00

Winnie Davis Camp No. 108, Waxahachie, Texas 10 00

Col. B. Timmons Camp No. 01, LaGrange, Texas 10 00

Mildred Lee Camp No. 90, Sherman, Texas 8 00

Jobn B . Hood Camp No . 233, Augusta, Ky 5 00

Geo. E. Pickett Camp No. 204, Richmond, Va 5 00

Sul Ross Camp No . 129, Denton, Texas 3 00

Army of Tennessee Camp No. 2, New Orleans, La 28 00

Total . . $433 75

As ever your friend and comrade,

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Nashville, Tenn., October 17th, 1893.
General Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff, New Orleans, La.

My Dear Moorman— I have received the aggregate amounts of
four hundred and thirty-three 75-100 dollars, contributed by the
different camps named in your letter of 14th inst. to me, for the
benefit of the family of our deceased Comrade, Lieutenant-General
E. Kirby Smith, which amounts have been turned over by me as
received from you to Col. Thos. Claiborne, Nashville, Tenn., the Treas-
urer of said fund.

I thank you kindly for your efforts in behalf of Mrs. E. Kirby
Smith and family.

Sincerely your friend and Comrade,

W. H. JACKSON,

Major-General Commanding Tenn. Div. U. C. Vs.

153 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

MRS. KIRBY SMITH RETURNS THANKS.

Sewanee, Tenn., October 18th, 1893.
General Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff, New Orleans, La.

My Dear General — Your check was forwarded to me by Col.
Claiborne last night. All this great kindness I accept from our
Veteran friends as offerings of love and respect to the memory of
my dear husband. I do appreciate, with heartfelt gratitude, the
substantial aid rendered me by his old comrades and friends, with-
out which for years I would have been financially embarrassed.

With kind regards and thanks through you to all friends,
believe me

Very sincerely,

CASSIE S. KIRBY SMITH.

THANKS TO RICHMOND.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, )

Richmond, Va., July 2, 1896.
General Orders No. 178:

Now that the great reunion of 1896 has ended, with its pathetic
incidents, and the sacred memories which will always cluster around
the historic capital of the Confederacy, the General Commanding
fearing that he has not expressed his heartfelt thanks in proportion
to the boundless wealth of hospitality so generously and lavishly
dispensed during the reception and entertainment of the old battle
scarred Veterans of the " Lost Cause," whom he has the high honor
to command, and which was showered so profusely upon them as
well as himself, feels the great obligation pressing upon him with
such force that he desires again to announce his thanks and
expression of satisfaction for everything which was done for the
United Confederate Veterans and himself, by the golden-hearted
and glorious people of the dear old city of Richmond.

II. The General Commanding desires the good people of
Richmond to know that he fully understands the magnitude of the
work they undertook, and wants them to know that they have per-
formed their part well, and that they have greeted and cared for the
old Confederate soldiers in a manner which has touched the hearts
of the old heroes, and left tender and sacred recollections of their
visit to the old-worn capital city.

III. He also desires to express his grateful thanks to that
gallant soldier, splendid citizen and noble Virginian, General
Peyton Wise, Chairman of the Reunion Committee, to his Secretary,
Colonel Thomas Ellett, and to each and every member of the
Reunion Committee, and to Major-General Thomas A. Brander,
Commanding the Virginia Division', for to their ability and labor is
due the credit for the success of the reunion.

of the United Confederate Veterans. 154

IV. There is also another feature which has not only elicited
his highest admiration, but touched deeply the hearts of every
visitor to this grand old city, and that is the unparalleled efficiency
and completeness of the Commissary Department, managed by Cap-
tain D. A. Brown, Quartermaster of R. E. Lee Camp No. 181, U. C.
Vs. When it is known that this valuable officer during the four
days has dispensed to the Veterans gratuitously 90,000 meals, and
sheltered free of charge 12,000 weary old soldiers, the almost
limitless hospitality of the people of Richmond can be faintly esti-
mated, and is evidence to the world of the undying love and affec-
tion in which the survivors of the great struggle of 1861-'65 are
held by the people of the South.

By order of

J. B. GORDON,
Geo. Moorman, General Commanding.

Adjutant- General and Chief of Staff.
(official.)

[Note — The magnificent oration by Lieutenant General S. D. Lee is given
here; although it was not a part of the reunion proceedings, as it was delivered
after all the United Confederate Veteran business was finished, and the conven-
tion had adjourned and the reunion ended.

But it is inserted here in honor of the distinguished orator, and the subject of
his oration which is so dear to every Southern heart; and as the oration is one of
the grandest and most memorable ever delivered upon the life and character of
Jefferson Davis, it should be in the archieves of every camp, and will become a
cherished household treasure in every home in the South. — Adjutant-General.]

GENERAL LEE'S ORATION.

A NOBLE TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. A MAN OF CHARACTER
DEVOTED TO PRINCIPLE, A COURTEOUS GENTLEMAN. HE LOVED THE UNION
AND ONLY WENT OUT WHEN HIS STATE SECEDED.

Following is the full text of the oration of Lieutenant-General
Stephen D. Lee, at the laying of the corner-stone of the Jefferson
Davis monument.

We are here to-day to honor the memory of Jefferson Davis; to
lay the corner-stone of a monument to one who needs no monu-
ment in our generation beyond that in the hearts of his countrv-
men. But we think it due to erect one that posterity may know the
reverence felt for the great leader of a cause that failed.

It is fitting that he should rest hei*e in Virginia— that greatest
of all States, the battle-scarred producer of warriors and statesmen;
fitting that he should rest among her immortals. But for her gen-
erosity in ceding her vast territory to the union, Kentucky would
have still been hers, and he would have been born her son. Many
presidents, statesmen, soldiers, lie in Virginia soil — from Washing-
ton to the present time — none greater than Davis, but more fortu-
nate.

155 Sixth Annual Meeting and Reunion

Let us glance backward. Thirty-one years ago, on the soil of
this very commonwealth, the man to whom we erect this monument
lay manacled in a casemate of a strongly-garrisoned fortress,
charged with the most atrocious crime known to man — treason and
murder. He had been the unanimously chosen leader of a true
people, who, actuated by a pure and lolty patriotism, after exhaust-
ing every effort at compromise, made an attempt to establish a new
nation; and after a bitter struggle of four years, after nearly four
million soldiers had met in the shock of battle, and over two
thousand battlefields had blazed with glorious deeds, went down in
darkness and blood.

Success is the measure of merit applied alike to every man, to
every cause, and even in our moral judgments we sentence the
unfortunate. Men do not idly erect monuments to lost causes.
Fame has no trumpet for failure. The world hears not the voice of
the vanquished. Yet history might teach us strange things of men
who fail and causes that are lost. Genius did not keep Hannibal or
Napoleon from defeat; heroism went with Joan of Arc to the stake,
and Emmet to the scaffold. The eloquence of Demosthenes did not
save Greece, or Cato's virtue Rome. The courage of Kosciusko
availed naught for Poland, and Hungary went down for all the
patriotism of Kossuth. Sometimes defeat gives a tragic pathos
which lifts the commonplace into the immortal, and tenderly pre-
serves the memory of the vanquished long after the victor has been
forgotten.

Since the death of Napoleon there has been no career which
illustrates so dramatically the vicissitudes of fortune as that of
Jefferson Davis. Born amid the rugged surroundings of a frontier
State, he lived to win the triple glory of the soldier, the orator and
the statesman. He became the ruler of seven millions of people.
His government was overwhelmed, his fortune swept away. He was
bound as a criminal and prosecuted for his life. He became an
exile . He was denied the rights of citizenship . He was defamed,
denounced, insulted, ridiculed to the hour of his death . And yet
he died, by millions more sincerely mourned and deeply beloved,
than any other man in the history of the nation . If his enemies
had succeeded in putting him to death he would have been the
most conspicuous figure in American history.

When the mists of passion and prejudice have passed away the
calm light of justice gives the right niche to each figure in history.
The descendants of the men who burned Joan of Arc now regard
her as a character of heroism and beaut}'. The posterity of the men
who .hung witches in Salem as a pious duty, now hear the story
with horror. The descendants of the men who to-day look on Jef-
ferson Davis with unkind expressions will see him as we do— the
stainless gentleman, the gallant soldier, the devoted patriot, the
pure and gifted statesman.

of the United Confederate Veterans. „ 156

WILL NOT RECALL OUR WRONGS.

I do not propose to discuss now the unhappy causes leading to
the war between the States . It is still too soon. Criminating and
recriminating over irritating causes of differences cannot readjust
what the war has settled. We must wait for the mists to clear
away, and that will take another generation It does no good to
recall our wrongs, real or fancied; it keeps up partisan feeling, it
gives an excuse for ill will. Others have ably treated the Southern
view of the controvei'sy, their argument is submitted to impartial
history. Suffice it to say on this occasion that the war has settled,
that secession is impracticable, and the amendments to the Consti-
tution have adjusted all other differences. The Southern people
have fully accepted the results; they accept the present, and
loyally commit themselves to the future. Neither shall I attempt
to recount his life, for it is a part of history. The record is made
up; if we protect it from falsification while we live the verdict of
history will not shame our posterity when we are dead.

To-day we meet and the past and the present join hands.
Looking around me, viewing the faces of the fair women and brave
men before me, I realize that the past is behind me, that this is the
living present. I feel the influence of the new hopes of the new genera-
tion to which you belong. Our task is to commit into your hands
what our failing hands cannot much longer hold — the sacred rights
for which your fathers sacrificed their lives, their property, every-
thing; these liberties and the land which was so clear to them, we
commit to you. I will only say you cannot excel your fathers;
reverence thein, emulate them; may you be worthy of them !

It is hard to believe that the American people will always desire
to have the epithets of traitor aud rebel applied to names which are
now, and, unless hutnan nature changes, always will be dear and
honored in the hearts of a large part of their number — honored by
men who made duty a passion, a religion — dear to the posterity of
those who were foremost in sacrifice, in the establishment of the
republic, in the increasing of its area, and in the vindication of prin-
ciples of government, inherited from their forefathers and accepted as
correct for the first fifty years of the republic.

I cannot hold him wise who would willingly wound the patriot-
ism of any citizen of the republic. To brand such men as Albert
Sydney Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, or Jefferson
Davis as traitors is not to stain the whiteness of their lives, but rather
to spoil the word for any useful purpose, to make of traitor a title
which Hampden or Washington might have borne as well had the
fortunes of war gone against them. As Fox said to Lord North:
"The great asserters of liberty, the saviours of their country, the
benefactors of mankind, in all ages, have been called rebels." "We
owe the constitution which enable? us to sit in this house to a
rebellion . "

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HOW THE CONFEDERACY BEGAN.

The future historian will note with astonishment that the South-
ern struggle for independence began not with committees of public
safety, with declarations of the rights of man, or enunciatien of the
mighty doctrine that governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed, but it began with public statutes, general
elections, and constitutional conventions. Mr. Davis himself rested
in his inaugural, the case of the new nation at the bar of the public
opinion of the world not upon revolutionary, but upon legal right,
He said: "The rights solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States,
which have been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of States
subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, invariably recognize
in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the
purposes of government. Thus the sovereign States here represented
proceeded to form this Confederacy and it is by abuse of language
that their act has been denominated a revolution." He might also
have said that the very Constitution of the United States was adopted
by acts of secession, violating the articles of Confederation .

The South learned its constitutional law from Jefferson, Madison
and Calhoun; not from Hamilton and Marshall. They considered
secession as a constitutional remedy in 1861. They believed a sepa-
rate confederacy with their constitutional rights retained, better than
a union with these rights trampled upon and ignored, or held together
by physical force .

The junior Senator from Massachusetts has written these words:
"When this constitution was adopted by the votes of the States at
Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of the States in popular con-
ventions, it is fair to say, that there was not a man in the country
from Washington and Hamilton, on the one side, to George Clinton
and George Mason, on the other, who regarded the new system as
anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from
which each and every State had the right to peaceably withdraw, a
right which was very likely to be exercised." The Southern States
only exercised aright which had often been threatened by New Eng-
land and which was generally conceded to be a constitutional right.
But in 1861, the Union had grown with the growth of the American
people, and strengthened with its strength until like a young oak, it
had burst the old constitutional rocks asunder. The South was fight-
ing against the stars in their courses. But standing on this sacred
spot I should be false to the memory of the dead, if I did not remind
you, that he, the man we all adore, battled for the constitutional right
to dissolve the Union, not for revolution, not for slavery— that the
war was fought upon a legal, not a moral issue, and it is significent,
that slavery is not mentioned either in the Confederate inaugural, or
in Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

It is a pleasant reflection to-day that the feelings which human
nature cannot repress in the sad hour of defeat, have found the gentle
and sure medicine of time. A new generation has risen underneath

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the healing wings of peace, that are strangers to the discord of their
fathers, and the gray-haired veterans of Gettysburg and Chickamauga,
conscious of their rectitude of purpose and lofty patriotism, nowjield
loyal allegiance to the government, not having disowned their man-
hood, or with servility confessed that they w7ere wrong. They bave
preserved their self-respect and won the respect of the nation.

For what then shall this monument stand? Jefferson Davis was
truly through his life, the representative of his people, and the monu-
ment represents the love of the Southern people for him. Such a sen-
timent honors them even more than it honors him. It demonstrates
the faithfulness of the Southern people to their leader for better or
for worse. Rather than suspected is that people to be honored and
trusted, whose attachments defy the vicissitudes of time and fortune
and reach in loving fortitude beyond the grave.

WHY WE LOVE DAVIS.

Let us consider on this occasion, the reasons for our love for
Jefferson Davis, and why we honor him. First, above all, he is dear
to us for the incomparable beauty of his character. It is a joy to
the South, that its great typical figures of a generation ago, such as
Davis, Lee, and Jackson, were men who wore the white flower of a
blameless life — men of clean lips and spotless names. It will not
surprise you when I add, they were each of them of a strong Chris-
tian faith. Permit me to quote the words of two distinguished men
who knew Jefferson Davis most intimately in official as well as private
life. "Standing here by his open grave, and in all probability not far
from my own," said George Davis, of North Carolina, Attorney-Gen-
eral of the Confederacy, "I declare to you, that he was the most hon-
est, truest, gentlest, tenderest, manliest man I ever knew." "I knew
Jefferson Davis as I knew few men," said Ben Hill, Georgia's great
senator. "I have been near him in his public duties; I have seen
him by his private fireside; I have witnessed his humble devotions,
and I challenge the judgment of history when I say no people were
ever led through the fiery struggle for liberty, by a nobler, truer
patriot, while the carnage of war and the trials of public life, never
revealed a purer, or more beautiful Christian character."

Jefferson Davis stood the test of true greatness, he was the
greatest to those who knew him best. One of the marked traits of
Mr. Davis' private life wras his exquisite couitesy. He was one of the
most approachable of men, as polite and affiable to the humblest as to
the most exalted. In his old ag« in Raleigh, N. C, he excused him-
self to all callers, in order to receive the visit of his former slave. It
is characteristic of the man, that he closed his farewell address to
the Senate by apologizing for any pain, which in the heat of discus-
sion he might have inflicted. His last words on earth were, "Please
excuse me." Such gentleness usually marks a man of courage. On
a memorable occasion, he uttered the characteristic maxim, "Never
be haughty to the humble, nor humble to the haughty."

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"We remember how at Buena Vista, although painfully wounded,
he refused to quit his saddle, until the victory so largely due to his
owu heroism was won; how in the battles around Richmond, A. P.
Hill, that gallant and spotless soldier, twice ordered General Lee and
President Davis to the rear. Mr. Davis was utterly without fear for
himself. Notwithstanding the attempt made on his life at Richmond,
he never had an escort. But I must correct myself, for on one occa-
sion an unknown Confederate boy soldier followed the President
alone, from the lines around Richmond to the city, to watch over his
safety, and to die, if need be, for his sake. This youth but gave
expression to the heart of the South at that moment.

HIS FIDELITY TO PRINCIPLE.

The dominant characteristic of Mr. Davis was his fidelity to
principle. It was well said of him, "He bent to noue but God."
He came among us as a Roman born out of time. It was impossible
for him to ask pardoa, so long as he felt he had done his duty, con-
scientiously as he saw it, and he was never forgiven. One after an-
other, his great comrades entered the Beyond, until he stood alone,
but he never wavered. He passed from us a stern and majestic figure,
broken but never bent.

"In official life," said Senator Reagan, his postmaster general,
"he knew no word but duty." A young man and ambitious soldier, he
refused President Polk's offer of a brigadier generalship, because he
thought the appointment exceeded the President's constitutional
power. He answered thus the solicitations of friends to send a force
of men to protect his plantation and property in danger of seizure,
"The President of the Confederacy cannot afford to use public means
to protect private interest."

His aide, Governor Lubbock, of Texas, said of him, "From the
day I took service with him, to the very moment we separated, sub-
sequent to our capture, I witnessed his unselfishness. He forgot
himself, and displayed more self-abnegation, than any other human
being I have ever known." One of the strongest traits of his charac-
ter was his aversion to l'eceive gifts. He declined the beautiful home
offered him by the people of this generuos city. Over and over again
he refused to receive gifts of money even in his greatest extremities.

Mr. Davis' tenderness of heart was noticeable. On one occasion
a commander of the United States forces in Missouri took nine Con-
federate prisoners and hung them in infamous disregard of the laws of
war. The people clamored loudly for retaliation in kind, and it was
proposed in the very Cabinet that an equal number of prisoners of
war, then in Libby Prison, should be taken out and hanged. " I
have not the heart," replied the man afterwards accused of cruelty to
prisoners, "to take these innocent soldiers, taken iu honorable war-
fare, aud hang them like convicted criminals." His attorney- general
said of him: "I do not think I am a very cruel man, but I declare to
you that it was the most difficult thing in the world to keep Mr. Davis

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up to the measure of justice. He wanted to pardon everybody. If
ever a wife or a mother or a sister got into his presence it took but a
little while for their tears to wash out the record."

It is not necessary at this day, I take it, to defend Mr. Davis
from the charge of cruelty to prisoners any more than from the
picturesque calumny of stealing Confederate gold, or even that
slowly expiring libel that to escape cipture he disguised himself as
a woman. The man who could not bear to punish the guilty, never
tortured the innocent; the man who refused private gifts never
soiled his hands with public money; and the President of the Con-
federacy was never ridiculous. The mortality among Confederate
prisoners of war in the North was over three per cent, greater than
that of Union prisoners in the South. " The mortuary tables thus
exhibiting a large per cent, in favor of Confederate humanity."
Those who will read the sad history of the prisoners of war, not on
one side, but on both, and examine the ceaseless, almost humiliating
efforts of the Confederate Government to exchange prisoners, or
secure alleviations of their condition, and read General Grant's
frank admission of the reason for not exchanging, will have no
unkind words left for Mr. Davis. He was fortunate in having the
charge raised against him at the time when his enemies could put
him on trial for it. No human character was ever subjected to more
searching investigations than was his life at the time of his impris-
onment. The tierce light that beat upon the life of Jefferson Davis
revealed no blot or blemish, but, instead, displayed the image of its
white purity upon the screen of the ages.

HIS PUBLIC SERVICES.

We love and honor Mr. Davis for his eminent public services.
He came from a stock distinguished for its patriotism. His father
and uncles fought through the revolutionary war. Three of his
brothers were in the war of 1812. As a cadet at West Point he
entered the service of his country, and for twelve years he bore its
arms. He rendered conspicuous service in the Black Hawk war
against the Indians. In the Mexican war his gallantry at the
storming of Monterey was most conspicuous, while at Buena Vista,
the most brilliant victory every won by United States troops on
foreign soil, he is generally believed to have saved the day.

We love and respect him, for he truly represented us in his
political life. He became a member of Congress in 1845, resigning
the next year to serve in Mexico. Upon his return from the war he
became United States Senator. He was eight years a member of
the Senate, during the most brilliant epoch of its history, where he
sustained himself as an equal in debate with the most illustrious
statesmen in American history. He held his own with Chase and
Douglas, Benton and Clay, Webster and Calhoun.

As secretary of war he never had his superior. During his
administration the routes of a pacific railroad were surveyed.
The capitol was extended. Iron gun carriages were introduced, the

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system of casting heavy guns changed, and the use of coarser
grains of powder for artillery was begun. The army was enlarged
by four regiments. The dictates of politics were disregarded in
his official appointments.

Mr. Davis was opposed to disunion, and did his utmost to pre-
vent the step. At the conference called by Governor Pettus, of
Mississippi, of the representatives in Congress from that State in
1860, Mr. Davis declared himself opposed to secession as long as
the hope of a peaceful remedy remained. He said he did not
believe we ought to precipitate the issue, as he felt certain that
from his knowledge of the people of the North and South, that if
there was a clash of arms the contest would be the most sanguinary
the world ever witnessed. As a member of the senate committee to
whom the compromise proposals were submitted at the outbreak of
secession, he expressed his willingness to accept any plan of settle-
ment that promised a reasonable hope of success. But the Repub-
lican members of that committee rejected every proposition made.

On December 10, 1860, Mr. Davis spoke these words in the
Senate: " This Union is dear to me as a union of fraternal States.
It would lose its value if I had to regard it as a union held
together by physical force. I would be happy to know that every
State felt the fraternity which made this union possible, and if that
evidence could go out, if evidence satisfactory to the people of the
South could be given, that that feeling existed in the hearts of the
Northern people, you might burn your statute books, and we would
cling to the Union still."

HE PLEADED FOR THE UNION.

Tc the very hour that Mississippi seceded, and after it, he was
pleading for union without dishonor. When Mississippi seceded he
resigned his seat in the Senate, and went to hi3 State and cast his
lot with his people. Many another officer of the United States bent
before the allegiance he acknowledged to his mother State and fol-
lowed him with bleeding heart. In spite of his well known prefer-
ence for service in the field, the Confederate Government called him
to its head: Mr. Davis shared with Washington the extraordinary
distinction of being elected president of a republic unanimously,
but Mr. Davis was chosen by a more numerous people, and at a
period of more critical responsibility.

We love and honor Mr. Davis, most of all, because he suffered
with us and for us, and was our president. Because in the language
of the eloquent Peyton Wise, of Virginia. " He was the type of
that ineffable manhood which made the armies of the South."
Time would fail me to picture the iron will, the persistency and
loyalty of Mr. Davis during those four terrible years of the travail
of his soul— his people pitted against a people outnumbering them
four to one in arms bearing population and incomparably better
prepared for war, having an organized government, an organized

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army and navy, with arsenals, with dock-yards and machine shops,
and'having free intercourse with the world, from which to get sup-
plies and men, while every port was sealed against help from the
outside world to the Confederacy, which had to organize its govern-
ment and improvise everything for the unequal struggle from an
agricultural population.

With an army of 600,000 men and no navy, except a few river
steamers and privateers, opposed by an army outnumbering it by
2,000,000 of soldiers, by a navy of 700 vessels of war, manned by
105,000 men, with a fleet of transports steamers, barges and coal
floats almost innumerable, which in 18G2 on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries alone, numbered over 2,200 vessels. (It is not
known what was the number of vessels chartered on the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts, in moving the large armies). The navy in its help
was as decisive in results, as the great armies in the field, in block-
ading ports, in cutting up the Confederacy by her rivers, in estab-
lishing many depots and points of departure from the rivers, and
along the coast, for armies to invade and overrun new territory, and
in transporting armies around territory they could not cross, and in
saving armies when defeated, as at Shiloh, on the Tennessee, and on
the James river, near Richmond.

When we look back now at the mighty contest we wonder how
we ever held out so long— how we could have succeeded in driving
the American merchantmen from the seas— and how we won so many
signal victories, as many almost as were won by our enemies.

This record of Southern valor and manhood, where a people
fought so long against such odds and resources, displayed such forti-
tude, and endured such sacrifices, will be a bright page in American
history; and will show what the Anglo-Saxon race can and will do
under a Republican form of government in defence of a constitutional
principle.

As President Davis may have made mistakes. He was a constitu-
tional ruler, not a revolutionary chief. He could not work miracles.
He summoned to his council, the genius of Benjamin, the profundity of
Hunter, the intellect of Toombs. He placed at the head of his troops
Lee, Jackson, Albert Sydney Johnston, Beauregard, Joseph E. John-
ston and other leaders, not surpassed in any army since the marshals
of the empire. And wheu the night of defeat was darkening and the
dismantled ship of the Confederacy was sinking beneath the waters
he stood at the helm to the last. There is something indescribably
pathetic in the sight, when a brave and gallant people slake every-
thing upon the cast of battle, fight their armies to exhaustion, and
almost to annihilation in defending their homes and firesides against
invading enemies, and at last are overpowered and overwhelmed, and
behold everything that thev love go down. The people of the South
were a proud and sensitive race and the world will never know the
agonies they suffered in those desperate da} s. But none had so much to
bear, and bore it so bravely as their indomitable leader. He carr ed
on his great heart the sufferings of the people, he shared their sorrow
and partook of their grief.

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VETERANS PASSING AWAY.

I behold before me here to day the white heads of Confederate
veterans of the men who thirty-one years ago lost all save honor.
They are falling now swifter than ever their comrades fell on the field
of battle; they have lived thank God, to restore their country to
freedom and prosperity again — dear land ! for which they fought and
sacrificed and suffered and lost ! They who are about to die, salute
you.

There are those who confidently expect the time to come when
Confederate graves will no longer be decorated with flowers — when
monuments will cease to commemorate the splendid heroism of the
devoted sacrifices of those who fell for their State. For one, I believe
that the time will never come when the South will cease to love the
Confederate soldier. He would have been dear to her if he had
returned home amid the booming of cannon and the plaudits of vic-
tory. Mothers would have lifted their little children in their arms to
behold the hero's face. Church bells would have rung a nation's joy
and a grateful people would have showered honors upon his head.

God did not will it so.

The soldier came ragged, bleeding, penniless to his desolate
home; with sad heart, but dauntless courage to restore the laud he
loved. He gave all for his country, and she, unhappy mother, had
nothing left to give him but her love. Dearer, a thousand times dearer,
to the South are her ragged heroes of 1865, than all her victorious sons
of other years.

She will never believe that the men who drew the sword in
defense of her hearth stones in 18G1, are worthy of reproach. Shame
upon the Southern people if they shall ever defile the one page of
their history which is glorious beyond compare — by writing over the
records of immortal heroism, of love that counted not the cost, and
patriotism that was faithful unto death, such words as these: "They
were all wrong, it was all a mistake." Rather let their story be blotted
out altogether, for their children will no longer be worthy to read or
emulate their achievements. Until that hour, every nameless grave,
every tattered flag, every worn jacket of gray, shall find hearts to love
and hands to cherish them.

The people of the South would not exchange the story of the
Confederacy for the wealth of the world. At their mothers' knees,
the coming generations shall learn from that story what deeds make
men great and nations glorious.

The people who do not cherish their past will never have a future
worth recording. The time is even now that the whole people of the
Uoited States, is proud of the unsurpassed heroism, sacrifice and
faithfulness of the soldiers and people of the Confederacy.

* * * * "The terrible past
Must be ours while life shall last,
Ours with its memories, ours with its pain;
Ours with its best blood shed like rain;
The sacrifices all made in vain.
Forget? Never!"

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DAVIS AFTER THE WAR.

Singularly enough, however, it was after the war was over that the
events occurred which endeared Mr. Davis most to the Southern peo-
ple. I allude first of all to his long imprisonment at Fortress Monroe
— the clumsy cruelty of putting the distinguished captive in irons,
thrilled the South like an electric shock. It would be painful now,
and humiliating, I venture to say to Americans everywhere to dwell
upon the unhappy details of his confinement. Suffice it to say that
the result of all was the very last thing that his jailers would have
intended — to make Jefferson Davis the most beloved man of his time.
The men of the South recognized that he was suffering for an offence
which they equally shared with him, and suffering in no figurative
sense in their place. One of the most exquisite scenes in the life of
this remarkable man occurred while he was a prisoner in the fort
when Dr. Minnegerode partook with him of the Holy Communion in
the stillness of the night. The motionless figure of the Federal com-
mander of the fortress, and the sentinels standing guard over him,
regarding the strange spectacle and wondering, perhaps, how their
illustrious captive could have forgiven all the world.

Even after the charge of treason had broken down, and he was
once more a free man, Mr. Davis continued to be until the hour of his
death, a shining mark for the political enemies of the South. So well
understood was the love of the people for him that it became, as it
appeared to us, a political device, which never failed of its purpose to
attack him in order to arouse expressions of resentment from the
South. Ben. Hill and Lamar were especially dear to our hearts,
because they defended Mr. Davis.

There is something in his unbending nature, free from all the
petty diplomacies which make for popularity, that made him a favorite
subject for ridicule and defamation. He was a man understood only
by his peers. Pliant, politic, narrow or partisan souls could never
rise above the clouds of his adversity to behold the eternal sunshine
settled on his head. It was impossible to answer the assailants in
kind. Every shaft aimed at Mr. Davis in Congress, at the'^hustiegs,
or through the press, drew the hearts of the Southern people closer to
him. They are a loyal and faithful folk. Their disfranchised leader
became their Prometheus, chained to the rock, with the vultures
gnawing at his vitals.

It is not the least thing for which they love him. that his last
years were devoted to the vindication of their cause, and the death-
less story of their achievements. It is sweet to them to think of
him at Beauvoir, aged and bent, invalid and almost blind, pouring
out his last energies in defence of their honor. The seductions of
power never reached him. He died in the political faith in which
he lived, unchanged to the end, standing like a mast where the
ship went down. Brave unconquerable old man !

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POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS.

I question whether any other man ever received the popular
demonstrations of affection which attended Mr. Davis. No sove-
reign in the height of his power, ever witm ssed the overwhelming
manifestations of devotion and reverence wbich the presence of this
aged and powerless man evoked. When he was released from trial
thousands of the citizens of Richmond stood with bare heads in
silence as he passed. It was at Atlanta, at the unveiling of the Hill
monument that Henry Grady proclaimed him/ The uncrowned king
of all our hearts" amid an outburst of enthusiasm, which must have
repaid bim for years of suffering. It is said that seven cities
claimed the birth of Homer, dead, but seven States contested for
the honor of being the burial place of Jefferson Davis. On the day
of his funeral, services were held for him all over the South. Grady
said, ' Government will not render to him the pomp and circum-
stance of a great death, but his people will give him a tribute of
love and tears, surpassing all that government could do, and honor-
ing his memory as earthly parade could not do." And so it was.
America never saw before so wonderful a pageant as that which
passed down the streets of New Orleans. The funeral of that gen-
erous soldier, General Grant, I am told, cost more than one hun-
dred thousand dollars. The even more impressive funeral of Mr.
Da\is cost nothing — all bills came in receipted. It was the spon-
taneous outpouring of a people's love. The people of the South
may not be rich in material things, but they are not poor in their
hearts.

It was my duty and privilege to be present at his funeral, and
also to accompany his remains on the way to Richmond, and I shall
never forget it. No conqueror's march was ever half so triumphant.
In the capitals through which it passed his body lay in state, vis-
ited by thousands, and everywhere along the way the people, old
and young, thronged and stood with uncovered heads day and
night along the railroad as the train rolled by, to testify their devo-
tion to the dead. It was spontaneous, it was sincere, it was universal.

We are gathered here to-day to erect a monument to him; it is
for our sakes, not his. His memory belongs to the ages. His life
will stand like a snowy peak amid the centuries. His remembrance
will abide in the hearts of men when this stone has crumbled into
dust Jefferson Davis' life teaches us that character i9 secure.
Character was his bulwark against all the slander, ridicule, insult,
which the wit of man could devise, and that defence stands sure.

He teaches us that love follows sacrifice. He who bore every-
thing for his people received a reward such as an emperor might
have envied — their unfeigned and abiding love. He teaches us
that life offers something better tnan success. It is when moral
worth is defeated that humanity becomes sublime.

THE TYPICAL SOUTHERNER.

As a soldier, his brilliant and promising career was cut short.
He had no opportunities to develop the great qualities of Lee, the
prince of commanders. As a statesman, he did not quite reach,

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perhaps, the commanding statue of Calhoun, to whose work he suc-
ceeded. As an orator, he may have lacked the impetuous fervor of
Yancey, the splendid declamation of Lamar — he surpassed them
all in his majestic strength, the chaste beauty of his thought, and
his thrilling earnestness. Bnt Davis was greater than theni all in
that he combined them all. He was an accomplished soldier, a
great statesman, and a consummate orator. He was the typical
Southerner of his day, and of all time.

Around him stood that marvelous group — Lee, the flower of
chivalry; Jackson, the genius of war; Toombs, the thunderer of
debate; Benjamin, the jurist; Campbell, the judge; Bledsoe, the
scholar; Hunter, the statesman — men fit to measure with the knight-
liest. Yet from the vantage ground of history his sublime head
lifts itself above them all.

It is meet and fitting that the ashes of the great should rest in
Virginia's soil. Round him sleep the mighty ones who have gone
before — soldiers who won American liberty; jurists who gave it
perpetual form; statesmen who filled its flag with stars and made
it honorable throughout the world. Let Richmond be added to
Mount Vernon, Monticello and Lexington. The South has com-
mitted the keeping of his ashes to the mother of States and states-
men. Let him sleep in Virginia, where every river whispers of
Confederate heroism, and every hill was crimsoned with the
soldier's blood. Let him rest, in Richmond, his capital, the city
which he walled about with the breasts of the bravest of the brave.
His memory is safe with you. You were faithful to the living, jou
will not forget the dead.

In calmer years, when the last ember of sectional feeling has
burned out, and the last cord of love has gently bound the hearts
of all Americans together, fathers will bring their little children to
this spot and tell the story of a pure, great man, who suffered for his
people, and for the right as they understood it, and how for this they
loved him, as they loved no other. Long as yonder noble river shall
roll its tide to the sea it shall behold no man more kingly. "He was
a very perfect gentle knight." May the story of his life be sweet in
days to come, and, at last, all men come to understand Jefferson
Davis.

[Note.— The orator was interrupted by applause all through the oration
mention of which is omitted in the body of the oration, as it would mar its beauty
and interfere with its reading.— Adjutant General ]

Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff:
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-- OF THE

Seventh Annual Meeting

AND REUNION

— OF THE

United Confederate Veterans,

— HELD AT

NASHVILLE, TENN,

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 22nd, 23rd and 24ft, 1897.

J. B. GORDON, General Commanding.
GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

ORGANIZATION

OF THE

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS

WITH NAMES OF THE

DEPARTMENT, DIVISION AND BRIGADE COMMANDERS,
THEIR ADJUTANTS GENERAL, AND ADDRESSES.

General JOHN B. GORDON, General Commanding, Atlanta, Ga.
Major General GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, New
Orleans, La,

Army of Northern Virginia Department.
Lieut. General WADE HAMPTON, Commander, Columbia, S. C.

Virginia Division.
Major General THOS. A, BRANDER, Commander, Richmond, Va.
Col. JOS. V. BIDGOOD, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff; Richmond, Va.
Brig. General T. S. GARNETT, Commanding 1st Brigade, Norfolk, Va.
Brig. General MICAJAH WOODS, Commanding 2d Brigade, Charlottesville, Va

Maryland Division.
Major General A. C. TRIl'PE, Commander, Baltimore, Md.
Colonel JOHN S. SAUNDERS, Adjutant General and Chief of Stafi, Baltimore,

Md.
Brig. General OSWALD T1LGHMAN, Commanding 1st Brigade, Easton, Md.
Brig. General SPENCER C. JONES, Commanding 2d Brigade, Rockville, Md.

North Carolina Division.

Major General WM. L. DeROSSET, Commander, Wilmington, N. C.

Col. JUNIUS DAVIS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Wilmington, N. C.

Brig, General J. G. HALL, Commanding 1st Brigade, Hickory, N. C.

Brig. General W. L. LONDON, Commanding 2d Brigade, Pittsboro, N. C.

South Carolina Division.

Major General C. IRVINE WALKER, Commander, Charleston, S. C.

Col. IAS. G. HOLMES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Charleston, S. C.

Brig." General ASBURY COWARD, Commanding 1st Brigade, care of The

Citadel, Charleston, S. C.
Brig. General THOMAS W. CARWILE, Commanding 2d Brigade, Edgefield

S. C.

Kentucky Division.

Major General JOHN BOYD, Commander, Lexington, Ky.

Col. JOHN H. CARTER, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Avon, Ky.

Brig. General JAMES M. ARNOLD, Commanding 1st Brigade, Newport, Ky.

Brig. General J. B. BRIGGS, Commanding 2d Brigade, Russellville, Ky.

Brig. General JNO. H. LEATHERS, Commanding 3d Brigade, Louisville, Ky.

Brig. General J. M. POYNTZ, Commanding 4th Brigade, Richmond, Ky,

West Virginia Division.

Major General ROBERT WHITE, Commander, Wheeling, W. Va.

Col. A. C. L. GATEWOOD, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Linwood,

W. Va.
Brig. General DAVID E. JOHNSTON, Commanding 1st Brigade, Bluefield, W.

Va.
Brig. General S. S. GREENE, Commanding 2d Brigade, Chatleston, W.Va.

Army of Tennessee Department.

Lieut. General S. D. LEE, Commander, Starkville, Miss.

Brig. General E. T. SYKES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Columbus,
Miss.

.Georgia Division.
Major General CLEMENT A. EVANS, Commander, Atlanta, Ga.
Col. JOHN A. MILLER, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Atlanta, Ga.
Brig. General JAS. S. BOYNTON, Commanding 1st Brigade, Griffin, Ga.

Alabama Division.

Major Genera] FRED. S. FERGUSON, Commander, Birmingham, Ala.

Col. HARVEY E. JONES, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Montgomery,

Ala.
Brig. General JAS. M. WTLLIAMS, Commanding 1st Brigade, Mobile, Ala.
Brig. General WM. RICHARDSON, Commanding 2d Brigade, Huntsville, Ala.

Tennessee Division.
Major General A. J. VAUGHAN, Commander, Memphis, Tenn.
Col. JOHN P. HICKMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Nashville,

Tenn.
Brig. General JAS. E. CARTER, Commanding 1st Brigade, Knoxville, Tenn.
Brig. General GEO. W. GORDON, Commanding 2d Brigade, Memphis, Tenn.
Brig. General S. F. WILSON, Commanding 3d Brigade, Gallatin, Tenn.

Mississippi Division.
Major General W. D. HOLDER. Commander, Jackson, Miss.
Col. S. B. WATTS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Meridian, Miss.
Brig General D. A. CAMPBELL, Commanding 1st Brigade, Vicksburg, Miss.
Brig. General W. D. CAMERON, Commanding '2d Brigade, Meridian, Miss.

Louisiana Division.
Major General E. H. LOMBARD, Commander, New Orleans La.
Col. J. Y. GILMORE, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, New Orleans, La.

Florida Division.

Major General L T. DICKISON. Commander, Ocala, Fla.

Col. FRED. L. ROBERTSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Brooksville,

Fla.
Brig. General GEO. REESE, Commanding 1st Brigade, Pensacola, Fla.
Brig. General N. A. HULL, Commanding 2d Brigade, Jacksonville, Fla.
Major General W. H. JEWELL, Commanding 3d Brigade, Orlando, Fla.

Trans-Mississippi Department.

Lieut. General W. L. CABELL, Commander, Dallas, Texas.

Brig. General A. T. WATTS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Dallas, Texas.

Missouri Division.

Major General ROBERT McCULLOCH, Commander, Boonville, Mo.
Col. H. A. NEWMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Huntsville, Mo.
Brig. General S. M. KENNARD, Commanding Eastern Brigade, St. Louis, Mo.
Brig. General G. W. THOMPSON, Commanding Western Brigade, Barry, Mo.

Texas Division.

Major General W. T. MERIWETHER, Commander, San Antonio, Texas.
Col. M. F. MOTT, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Galveston, Texas.

Northeastern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General J. T. WILSON, Commander, Sherman, Texas.

Col. W. M. ABERNATHY, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, McKinney

Texas.
Brig. General JOHN W. WEBB, Commanding 1st Brigade, Paris, Texas.
Brig. General K. M. VAN ZANDT, Commanding Second Brigade, Ft. Worth,

Texas.

Northwestern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General H. O'NEAL, Commander, Alpine, Texas.
Col. J. P. EARL, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Henrietta, Texas.
Brig. General W. B. PLEMONS, Commanding 1st Brigade, Amarillo, Texrs.
Brig. General A. T. GAY, Commanding 2d Brigade, Graham, Texas.

Southeastern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General THOS. J. GTBSON, Commander, Mexia, Texas.
Col. J. W. SIMMONS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staft, Mexia. Texas.
Brig. General F. CHAS. HUME, Commanding 1st Brigade, Galveston, Texas.
Brig. General J. R. WAIT1ES, Commanding 2d Brigade, Houston, Texas.

Southwestern Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General J. B. POLLEY, Commander, Floresville, Texas.

Col. H. C. THOMPSON, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Floresville, Texas.

Brig. General W. P. LAWTER, Commanding 1st Brigade, Edna. Texas.

Brig. General SAM MAVERICK, Commanding 'id Brigade, San Antonio, Texas.

Western Texas Sub-Division.

Brevet Major General JOS. G. BOOTH, Commander, Austin, Texas.
Col. E. M. PHELPS, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Austin, Texas.
Brig. General H. E, SHELLY, Commanding 1st Brigade> Austin, Texas.
Brig. General J. D. FIELDS, Commanding 2d Brigade, Austin, Texas.
Brig. General JOE D. HARRISON, Commanding 3d Brigade, Willow City,
Texas.

Arkansas Division.

Major General JNO. J. HORNOR, Commander, Helena, Ark.
Col. JOS. C. BARLOW, Adjutant. General and Chief of Staff, Helena, Ark.
Brig. General RUFUS J. POLK, Commanding 1st Brigade, Little Rock, Ark.
Brig, General \V. F. SLEMONS, Commmanding "2d Brigade, Monticello, Ark.
Brig. General W. S. HANNA, Commanding 3d Brigade, Morrilton, Ark.
Brig. General JOS. A. REEVES, Commanding 4th Brigade, Camden, Ark.

Indian Territory Division.

Major General R. B. COLEMAN, Commander, McAlester, Indian Territory.
Col. LOUIS C. LENNENT, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, McAlester,

Indian Territory.
Brig. General TOHN L. GALT, Commanding Chickasaw Brigade, Ardmore,

Iudian Territory.
Brig. General D. M. HAILEY, Commanding Choctaw Brigade, Krebs, Indian

Territory.
Brig. General JOHN BIRD, Commanding Cherokee Brigade, Muldrow, Indian

Territory.

Oklahoma Division.)

Major General J. O. CASLER, Commander, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Col. TAYLOR McRAE, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Oklahoma City,

Okla.
Brig. General C. R. BUCKNER, Commanding 1st Brigade, Guthrie. Okla.
Brig. General J. P. SAUNDERS, Commanding k2d Brigade, Shawnee, Okla.

[Official.]

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chi<>f of Staff.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion,

OF THE

United Confederate Veterans,

HELD AT

NASHVILLE, TENN,

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 1897.

FJKST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

Tuesday, June 22, 1897.

The Seventh Annual Reunion of the United Confederate
Veterans assembled at the Tabernacle in Nashville, Tenn., on Tues-
day, the 22nd day of June, 1897, at, 12 M., with one thousand and
thirty-one camps represented.

The meeting had been called for 10 A. M., but General Gordon
had been wired in error 12 M., and the events which occurred while
awaiting his ariival are best described by the press reports.

The Banner says:

"The rain this morning was an unpleasant feature of the Con-
federate Reunion, but the inclemency of the weather did not weaken
the spirits of the old Confederates, nor did it prevent their gathering
at the Tabernacle in great numbers, by hundreds and by thousands. As
soon as the doors of Tabernacle were opened at 9 o'clock the crowds
began to pour into the spacious auditorium, and the ushers were kept
busy seating the delegations in the sectiens laid off for the various
State Divisions. The gallery was the fiist to fill up, and by 11 o'clock
every seat on both floors was filled, and many visitors unable to
secure seats stood in the aisles. Seats on the platform were occupied
by the sponsors, maids of honor, officers of the Association, speakers
of the day and distinguished Confederate generals and their staff
officers. Governor Taylor was accompanied by his staff in full
regalia.

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"The picture presented was one of beauty and chivalry. But a
grander sight was that on the floors, where were gathered the rank
and file of the Confederacy, the men who fought in the ditches, the
men who made the names of the generals and colonels famous in
history."

The American says:

"AT THE TABERNACLE.

A Great Gathering Witnesses the Opening of the Seventh Annual

Reunion.

"Prior to the opening of the Convention, the crowd began to
collect early, but took some time to be seated. The Auditorium was
reserved for delegates, but the galleries were opened to the public.
The upper tiers of seats were packed some time before the capacity
of the building was put to the test, which was not until atter 11
o'clock.

"Amid outpourings of enthusiasm and bursts of heroic music
the new Confederacy did homage to the old. ♦

"Seven thousand people joined with one accord in the tribute, and
seven thousand Southern hearts thrilled at the reminiscences resur-
rected by the memorable occasion.

"The cheers of the old men who gave the South a name were
commingled in the acclaim with those of the young by whom her
glories must be perpetuated, and the women who were present lent
their efforts to swell the enthusiasm.

"The Tabernacle in which the scene was laid never held a more
harmonious gathering. Many States were represented there, but it
was apparent only from the placards that served as guide posts for
the various divisions. All were in sympathy. They were heroes and
sons and daughters of heroes glorying in the old South, and the
enthusiasm was as inspiring as it was irresistible.

"The Commander-in-Chief of the veteran aimy was the hero of
the occasion. When he appeared it was a signal for the cheering
that marked the exercises of the morning to begin and from that
time until the close it was unrestrained.

"The speakers, with the deeds of Southern men and women for
their topics, required no wonderful oratorical ability to move their
hearers, but the ovation that each received was more than enough to
convince him of his powers. The chords were only waiting to be
struck, and when touched vibrated. The music was the old 'rebel

yell.'

"The familiar tunes played by the band were given such a
reception as the finest symphonies could not elicit. "Dixie" was a
continual source of re-echoing enthusiasm, and 'The Girl I Left
Behind Me' was scarcely heard above the wild applause.

of the United Confederate Veterans. ij

"Among those who honored the occasion were the sponsors and
the maids of honor of the various States. Elevated seats were
reserved for them in the rear of the speaker s'sttnd. They served as a
fit background for such a galaxy of heroic men as sat upon the dais.
Soulhern women, who placed such an impoitant part in the achieve-
ments of the Confederate Slates, were well represented by these
young ladies. Each one, besides her own attractions and accom-
plishments, had the record of a courageous father to endear her to
the crowd, and as each appeared she received the merited salute of
cheers.

''The Tabernacle was profusely decorated for the occasion, and in
the colors that appealed to every Southern heart. The bright colors
and flags were e\er\ where suspended f re m the walls and wreathed
about the railing of the gallery. These fabrics were time and again
stirred by the cheering.

"About 10 o'clock Judge John H. Eeagan, the orator of the
occasion, arrived, accompanied by Colonel A. S. Colyar, who was to
introduce him. "While the two were entering the old veterans
evidenced considerable enthusiasm at seeing the Southern statesman.

"At 10:15 Gov. Taylor, accompanied by some ladies and a few
members of his staff arrived, and received an ovalion. The ladies with
him were Miss Eosa Freeman and Mrs. John H. Eeagan, of Austin,
Texas. Both occupied seats upon the dais. Upon the stage were
seated, among others, Judge John H. Eeagan, Mrs. Eeagan, Dr.
John William Jones, of Virginia; Gov. Eotert L. Taylor, of Ten-
nessee; Gen. Joe Wheeler, Gen. J. F. Shipp, Gen. Stephen D. Lee
and staff as follows: Col. E. P. Lake. Col. G. N. Helm, Col. H. C.
Myers and Gen. E. T. S;\kes; Gen. W. H. Jackson, Bishop O. P.
Fitzgerald, Hon. A. S. Colyar, Judge W. L. Calhoun, of Atlanta;
Judge John C. Ferriss, of Nashville, L. L. Eobertson, of Birmingham;
John M. Simpson, Dr. S. H. Stout, of Dallas; Gen. Clement A. Evans,
Gen. E. G. Shaver, Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Dr. Menees, Gen. W. D.
Chipley, Gen. Geoige A. Steuart, of Maryland; and Gen. Philips, of
Florida.

"A number of Governor Taylor's staff were present upon the
stage in uniform as follows: Gen. Charles Sykes, Col. E. S. Fletcher,
Col. A. L. Childress, Col. Jesse H. Thomas, Col. Harvey Hannah and
Col. J. L. Brandon."

Lieutenant Generals S. B. Buckner, of Kentucky, and A. P.
Stewart, of Tennessee. General Buckner was accempanied by Mrs.
Buckner.

Eobert E. Lee, Jr., a grandson of Eobert E. Lee, also occupied
a prominent seat on the platform. He is the guest of Hon. Joseph
E. Washington, of Boberiscn County, but is here attending the re-
union. A son of General Hoed was also in attendance. Both of these
young men were shown marked attention by the veterans.

General Micajah Wood, commanding the Virginia veterans, was
also on the stage.

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DIXIE WAKES 'EM UP.

The first real outbreak was created when the First Regiment
Band began playing "Dixie."

The dear old tune raised the people from their seats and their
hats from their beads. Cheer after cheer shook the building. It
lasted as long as the music did, rising and falling like the waves of a
mighty ocean. Other tunes were plaved, but few elicited such en-
thusiasm.

The second volcanic eruption, as it were, occurred when General
Joe "Wheeler arrived and was escorted to the platform. With him
were his four daughters, Misses Lucy, Annie, Julia and Carrie, accom-
panied by Mrs. Micajah Clark, of Clarksville. General Wheeler
bowed his thanks as he took his seat, while the band played " The
Bonnie Blue Flag."

The convention was delated considerably by the absence of the
commander-in-chief, General Gordon.

About 11:30 o'clock, however, word was received that he was in
town, but it was some minutes before he arrived. In the meantime
the crowd called viociferously for " Our Bob," who occupied a con-
spicuous place upon the platform. Others joined in the call, and
Governor Taylor at last responded by announcing that General Gor-
don had sent word that he was on the way. He asked tbe crowd to
be patient.

Hardly had Governor Taylor taken his seat before there was an
incipient cheer, which grew into an ovation, before a tall, erect man
had reached the platform.

It was General Gordon. Handkerchiefs, banners and hats were
waved. Women clapped their hands and men shouted themselves
hoarse. The Tabernacle had never witnessed such an ovation. It
shook the walls and made the profuse decorations upon the walls
flutter to and fro.

General Gordon first shook hands with General George Moor-
man, his Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, and then with Governor
Taylor. Other hands were extended and warmly grasped by the
commander of the new Confederacy.

Turning toward the audierice, General Gordon smote the table
several times with a gavel, and commanded order. When the com-
mands were obeyed, he said:

" Some of you, my comrades, will bear me out in the assertion
that I was not always behind time. I should have been here on time
this morning, but I am here according to orders, and that is the rule
for a soldier — to follow. And now it becomes us, whom God spared
through the battles, and whose lives He has preserved for another
annual reunion, to recognize Him in all our proceedings, and ask that
this great assemblage unite in praising Him with the old Doxology,
1 Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow.' The band will lead."

of the United Confederate Veterans. 15

After several ineffectual attempts, the musicians were unable to
do so: Amidst great laughter and cheering General Gordon turned
to the band and said: " Play ' Old Hundred,' " but they evidently
had not learned the tune and had to give it up.

Calls were then made from all over the Tabernacle for Governor
Taylor. The chief executive of Tennessee stepped before the audi-
ence, all rising, and in a low tone began the refrain:

"Praise God from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly hosts;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.*'
His voice grew louder and louder and others joined him, until
the immense audience was one mammoth choir.

CHAPLAIN J. WILLIAM JONES' PRAYER.

Dr. J. William Jones was next introduced by General Gordon
and invoked upon the assemblage a blessing, as follows.

" O God ! our help in ages past, our hopes for years to come,
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God of the centuries, God of
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jefferson Davis, Sidney Johnston,
Robert Edward Lee, and Stonewall Jackson — our God — we bring
Thee, as we gather in our annual reunion, the homage of humble,
grateful hearts.

" We thank Thee that all through the centuries, when men have
been needed for great occasions, Thou hast raised them up.

" We thank Thee especially for the great men Thou hast given
to America, and for the great men Thou hast given to our Southland,
and especially that in the days of 1861-G5 Thou didst give us such
noble leaders, and the true patriots of the rank and file, who followed
these leaders to an immortality of fame.

" We thank Thee that while so many of these fell amid the leaden
and iron hail of battle, or died from diseases contracted in the camps,
and so many are every year stepping out of ranks, that so many still
remain, and that so many have gathered in this great reunion.

" We bring Thee the doxology of praise for Thy continued good-
ness and loving kindness.

" God bless our Confederate veterans, their widows and orphans.

" God bless this Reunion, direct its deliberations, and grant that
it may redound to the promotion of the cause of constitutional free-
dom. Give, we beseech Thee, journeying grace to these veterans,
and bless their loved ones at home.

" God bless every section of our common country — that we may
have fruitful seasons, plenteous harvests, and returning business pros-
perity; that our rulers may be God-fearing men, our lawmakers law-
abiding men, and our people a God-serving people. Hear us, and
answer us, and bless us, O God, we humbly ask in the name, and for
the sake of Christ, our dear Redeemer. Amen !"

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General Gordon then said : " The chair has great pleasure in
introducing the distinguished Governor of this Volunteer State, Hon.
Robert L. Taylor."

As the representative of Tennessee arose, the cheering, which had
become normal, arose to a mighty pitch, and continued for some min-
utes. When order had been restored, Governor Taylor said :

" Ladies and Gentlemen: \Vny need I say welcome to the men
of the South? Every heart in Tennessee throbs a welcome to you,
and every loyal home smiles a welcome. I think if I could draw back
the veil which separates immortality from this vale of tears, you would
see a vision of your old comrades who have answered to the roll call
of eternity, crowding the air, and you would hear them shout.welcome,
thrice welcome !

"I love to live in the land of Dixie, under the soft Southern
skies, where summer pours out her flood of sunshine and showers.
I love to live on Southern soil, where cotton fields wave their white
banners of peace, and where the wheat fields wave back their banners
of gold from the hills and valleys which were once drenched with the
blood of heroes. I love to live where the mocking birds nutter and
sing in the shadowy cove3, and bright waters ripple in eternal melody
by the graves where our heroes are buried. I love to breathe the
Southern air that comes filtered through jungles of roses, whispering
the story of Southern deeds of bravery. I love to drink from South-
ern springs and Southern babbling brooks, which once cooled the
lips of Lee and Jackson and Forrest and Gordon, and the worn and
weary columns of brave men who wore the gray. I love to live among
Southern men and women, where every heart is as warm as the South-
ern sunshine, and every home is a temple of love and liberty. I love
to listen to the sweet old Southern melodies, which touch the soul
and melt the heart and awaken to life ten thousand precious memo-
ries of the happy long ago, when the old-time darkies used to laugh
and sing, and when the old-time black mammy soothed the children
to slumber with her lullabies. But, oh, the music tint thrills rne most
is the melody that died away on the lips of many a Confederate sol-
dier as he sank into that sleep that knows no waking:

'• I am glad I am in Dixie.

Look away, look away,

In Dixies land I'll take my stand

And live and die for Dixie,

Look away, look away, look away down South in Dixie."

"I doubt if the world will ever see another civilization as brilliant
as that which perishei in the South a third of a century ago. Its
white columned mansions under cool, spreading groves, its orange
trees waving their sprays of snowy blossoms, and its cotton fields
stretching away to the horizon, alive with toiling slaves, who sang as
they toiled from early morn until the close of day; its pomp and
pride and revelry, its splendid manhood and the dazzling beauty
of its woman, placed it in history as the high tide of earthly glory.

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But the hurricane of civil war scattered it and swept it away. Bill-
ions of wealth dissolved and vanished in smoke and flame. The South
lost all save honor. Bat the Confederate soldier, the purest and
proudest type of the Anglo-Saxon race, stood erect amid its charred
and blackened ruins. The earth was red beneath him, the sky was
black above him, his sword was broken, his country was crushed,
but without a throne he was no less a ruler, his palace had perished,
he was no less a king. Slavery was dead, but magnificent in the
gloom of defeat, he was still a master. Has he not mastered adver-
sity ? Has he not rebuilt the ruined South ?

"Look yonder at those flashing domes and glittering spires;
look at the works of art and all the fabrics and pictured tapestries of
beauty. Look what Southern brains and Southern hands have
wrought. See the victories of peace we have won, all represented
within the white columns of our great industrial Exposition, and you
will receive an inspiration of the old South, and you will catch
glimpses of her future glory.

" I trust in God that the struggles of the future will be strug-
gles of peace and not of war. The hand of secession will never be
lifted up again. The danger to the Republic now lies in the mailed
hand of centralized power, and the South will yet be the bulwark of
American liberty. If you were to ask me why, I answer, it is the
only section left which is purely American ; I answer that anarchy
cannot live on Southern soil; I answer that the South has started on
a new line of march, and while we love the past for its precious mem-
ories, our faces are turned towards the morning.

Time has furled the battle flags, and smelted the hostile gun.
Time has torn down the forts and leveled the trenches and rifle pits
on the bloody field of glory, where courage and high-born chivalry
on prancing chargers once rode to the front with shimmering epaulets
and bright swords gleaming, where thousands of charging bayonets at
uniform angles reflected thousands of suns,whex'e the shrill fife scream-
ed, and the kettle-drum timed the heavy tramp, tramp of the shining
battalions, as the infantry deployed into battle line and disappeared
in the seething waves of smoke and flame — where double-shotted bat-
teries unlimbered on the bristling edge and hurled fiery vomit into
the faces of the reeling columns — where ten thousand drawn sabres
flashed, and ten thousand cavalry hovered for a moment on the flank
and then rushed to the dreadful revelry.

" The curtain dropped long ago upon^hese mournful scenes of
carnage, and time has beautified and comforted and healed until there
is nothing left of war but graves and garlands, and monuments, and
veterans and precious memories.

"Blow, bugler, blow, but thy shrillest notes can never again
call the matchless armies of Grant and Lee to the carnival of death.

" Let the silver trumpets sound the jubilee of peace. Let the
veterans shout who wore the blue. Let them kiss the silken folds of
the gorgeous ensign of the republic and fling it to the breeze and
sing the National hymn.

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" Let the veterans bow who wore the gray, and with uncovered
head salute the National flag. It is the flag of the inseparable Union.
Let them clasp hands with the brave men who wore the blue, and re-
joice with them, for time hath adorned the ruined South and robed
ner fields in richer harvests and gilded her skies with brighter stars
of hope.

" But who will scorn or frown to see the veterans of the South's
shattered armies, scattered now like solitary oaks in the midst of a
fallen forest, hoary with age and covered with scars, sometimes put
on the old worn and faded gray and unfurl for a little while that
other banner, the riddled and blood-stained stars and bars, to look
upon it and weep over it, and press it to their bosoms, for it is hal-
lowed with recollections, tender as the soldier's last farewell.

" They followed it amid the earthquake throes of Shiloh, where
Albert Sydney Johnston died; they followed it amid the floods of liv-
ing fire at Chancellorsville, where Stonewall Jackson fell; they saw it
flutter in the gloom of the Wilderness, where the angry divisions and
corps rushed upon each other and clinched and fell and rolled to-
gether in the bloody mire. They rallied around it at Gettysburg,
where it waved above the bayonets, mixed and crossed on those dread
heights of destiny; they saw its faded color flaunt defiance for the
last time at Appomattox, and then go down forever in a flood of tears.

" Then who will upbraid them if they sometimes bring it to light,
sanctified and glorified as it is by the blood and tears of the past, and
wave it again in the air, and sing once more their old war songs?

" When these heads are white with glory,

When the shadows from the West
Lengthen as you tell your story,

In the vet'ran's ward of rest,
May no iugrate's word of sneering

Reach one heart of all the brave,
But may honor, praise and cheering,

Guard old valor to the grave."

The cheering was deafening at each pause, and Governor Taylor
was frequently interrupted by the loud cheering as his eloquent trib-
utes to Southern heroes and warm words of welcome poured forth.
When he sang " Dixie," in a low, melodious voice, the great Taber-
nacle fairly trembled with the thunders of applause.

At the end of Governor Taylor's speech the band struck up
" Dixie," and the shouts continued until it ceased to play.

General Gordon said the Chair regretted to announce that the
Mayor, who was booked to make an address, was unable to do so,
but he took pleasure in stating that the Mayor had delegated in his
stead a man who was big enough in heart and head to make half a dozen
mayors. This man was Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South.

Mayor McCarthy then came forward, and in a few words intro-
duced Bishop Fitzgerald, " not a soldier or a commander of a lost

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cause, but a leader in a conquering cause." Bishop Fitzgerald pre-
faced his remarks by saying that in war times up North, wben a man
hired a substitute to fight for him, if the substitute deserted the prin-
cipal was shot. " Now," Bishop Fitzgerald said, " if I don't make a
good speech you must shoot Mayor McCarthy." (Laughter.)

Bishop Fitzgerald's speech was received with great applause.

He spoke as follows :

Bishop Fitzgerald's Welcome.

"Confederate Veterans, Our Honored Guests — The pleasing duty
of welcoming you to the city of Nashville has been in part anticipated
by the spontaneous feeling of her people. You were welcomed
before you started from your homes. At the mere announcement
that you were coming her gates swung open, and the door of every
house stood aj ir. Now that you are here, take possession of the city.
You had already had possession of our hearts. We surrender uncon-
ditionally. Though your ranks are thinning, you are still an army
of conquerors, as you were at the start. Victory was your habit then,
and victory is your habit now. From Bull Run to Appomattox the
record of your valor and victories is not surpassed in the history of
the world. The genius of your leaders and your courage as soldiers
have made all this Southern land classic ground. It is, therefore,
becoming that this classic city of Nashville, the educational queen of
the South, should clasp you to her heart to-day. She greets you with
pride and joy — pride in memory of your deeds, and solemn joy
mingled with thoughts of your dead comrades, whose absence makes
your ranks grow thinner every year. Nashville greets you as the
remnant of the Confederate army which fought battles and won vic-
tories that extorted the admiration of the world, and made the
wearers of the old gray jacket heroes whose names will be a patent of
nobility to their children to the latest generation.

"Your victories are not all in the past. Your most victorious era
is just fairly dawning. You have no enemies now that are worthy of
notice. When Grant said, " Let us have peace,'"' every true soldier
who fought on his side responded to his words. The sword was
sheathed. Ouly the class who fought at long range in the sixties,
pelting you with verbal missiles or the contents of partisan ink-pots;
and those who were ready, for a money considera ion, to reconstruct
a section they did nothing toward conquering — fighting the rebels by
substitutes, or serving, if at all, in the commissai'y department —
those who did not tight with Grant were very valorous in the days of
reconstruction and as invincible in their way as an army of caterpil-
lars or cotton worms. S)me of these are still living, for they know
how to take care of themselves ; but the sentiment of a reunited na-
tion has swept past them, and when our Gordon a few weeks ago
placed a flower upon Grant's grave, it meant more than the graceful
expression of a generous impulse. It meant that we are, indeed, a

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reunited people. It meant that in case of a foreign war the power
that meets us in battle will find us ready and will get such a surprise
as was given to the men who, having attacked one of the Siamese
twins, found a double pair of fists raining blows on him so fast that
he saw things in a new light, it he saw them at all.

"The fact that the Confederate Veterans iu uniform were the
guard of honor to President McKinley on his recent visit to the Ten-
nessee Centennial meant something. It meant that the war is over,
and that everything that is worth having in our American institutions
is safe in the keeping of the men who wore the gray. It means that
if any unpleasantness should occur between this country and any
other the old rebel yell may be heard again while the stars and
stripes are set floating in the gulf breeze above Moro Castle. Presi-
dent McKinley had a warm reception here on that occasion. One
Major McKinley had a still warmer reception down this way while
the sh«oting was going on. We won't shoot at each other any more,
but we will unitedly give a double dose of bullets to any power that
gets in our way — in the ratio of 16 to 1, less or more.

"You are still a conquering army. The gates of the temple of his-
tory are opening to you and you will have your proper places. In
this generation the story of your deeds will be written by a friendly
hand. The text-books from which history shall be taught your chil-
dren will do justice on both sides. Justice will be done to the cause
for which you fought and to the men who proved the sincerity of
their convictions by dying for them. In some future time a broad,
philosophic mind in some part of our country will, with the advan-
tage of historic perspective, see the issues and actors of that eventful
epoch in their proper proportions. The fame of the Confederate sol-
dier is safe. He has won his place, and he will keep it. His cause
may be called the lost cause, but nothing that was best and noblest
was lost. Honor was not lost. High ideals of manhood were not
lost. The manifestation to the world of one such man as Robert E.
Lee is no small compensation for the cost of that struggle. The
rights of minorities in all this nation will be safer in all the years to
come because Southern statesmen expounded them in the forum, and
Southern men died for them on the battlefield.

"One more reunion and one more welcome, you gray-haired Con-
federates— a welcome up yonder where the armies of heaven upon
white horses follow Him who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
There you may be welcomed by your old commanders and greeted
with a welcome where Father Ryan, the poet-priest, and other
thousands of army chaplains who, though differing on minor
points of belief, were true to God and to the Southern cause, will
join their voices in swelling the notes of the song that celebrates their
final victory in that only land that is fairer and dearer than this, our
land of Dixie."

Bishop Fitzgerald was frequently interrupted by loud and con-
tinued applause.

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At the conclusion of Bishop Fitzgerald's beautiful address of
welcome Judge John G. Ferriss, of the Davidson County Court, was
introduced by General Gordon. Judge Ferriss spoke as follows : '

Judge Ferriss' Remarks.

" Fellow-comrades, ladies and gentlemen : In bebalf of every
man, woman and child in Davidson county, I welcome you to our
homes and city. It truly does my old heart good to look you in the face
dan tell you that I am proud of this honor. When we laid down our
arms at Appomattox Court-house and surrendered to General Grant,
we did it as soldiers and gentlemen. We never sacrificed our man-
hood then, nor never will ; we returned to our desolate homes without
a murmur and began life anew. We believed in the terms of surren-
der given us by General Grant and felt cheerful. We all expected to
see our leaders killed or imprisoned by the enemy, but it was not so;
the old government that was defended by our ancestors showed us a
wonderful magnanmity, and today, after thirty-four years of peace,
we stand together as one great nation, the blue and gray working
side by side for the good of our great country, and all of us as a man
are in sympathy with our little neighbor, Cuba, " the Gem of the
Ocean." Soldiers, I love you all ; my heart goes out for you ; you
have made good citizens since the war as you did before. You
are a fearless set of men and know well how to appreciate
the blessings bestowed to-day by this land of the free and
home of the brave. God bless you, and I have never heard
of one of you going around looking for someone to apologize
to for the part you took in the war— and if the old hero, Abraham
Lincoln, had lived longer, we would have had no reconstruction. He,
as well as General Grant, was glad that the war was over, and neither
one showed any bitterness towards us. They treated our old hero,
General Lse, as a great warrior, who had fought his last fight and
then laid down his arms — no humiliation nor degredation did they
attempt to heap upon him; no, no. Peace once more in this land and
a united country is all that General Grant wanted, and we have all
kept faithfully our promise. I want to say to the Sons of Veterans,
in a short while the place that knows us to-day will know us no more.
We are swiftly passing away; but when we are all gone and there is
no one to speak for us, we will have a history for you to refer to and
tell all the world, that your fathers made that history amid shot and
shell and cold and hunger, and as their sons, you and your children
will always defend truth and righteousness. But I admonish you, as
our children and grandchildren, to love and honor our memories and
be true patriots to our government, and always be ready to defend
this government, that has been so bountiful aod generous to your
fathers. Loyalty to the Hag and this government is all that will be
expacted — for this is a free country — avery man a king and every
woman a queen. I would like to speak of our departed heroes, but I
am too full for utterance.

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"God bless you all, and I do hope that we will all meet in a better
land, where no sorrows nor wars will ever come, and perpetual peace
will reign forever. Good bye." (Applause.)

Colouel J. B. O'Bryan's Address.

General Gordon, at the conclusion of Judge Ferriss' speech, in-
troduced Colonel J. B. O'Bt-yan, Chairman of the Reunion Commit-
tee. He said he took especial pleasure in introducing the comrade
who had contributed so much to make this great gathering such a
success.

Colonel O'Bryan made some announcements as to bidges, regis-
tration and headquarters. He said a concert would be given at the
Tabernacle to-morrow night in honor of the Confederates, and on
Thursday afternoon at the Auditorium, in the Centennial grounds,
there would be a Confederate jubilee, and then spoke as follows:

" General Gordon, Fellow Comrades, Lidies and Gentlemen: As the
representative of the committee having in charge the arrangements
for this Seventh Annual Reunion, If. C. Vs., it is my pleasant duty to
speak a few words to you at this stage of the proceedings.

"While the formal invitition given at Richmond was to the U. C.
V. Association, our people extended it so as to inclu le all C mfederate
soldiers in good standing, whether or not members of the U. C. Vs.

"All that has been done in the preparations by our committee and
by the citizens generally, was a lab )r of love. Soldiers of the Con-
federate Army and Navy, "Tar-heels " and " Goober Grabbers,'' from
the Palmetto State, from the Lone Star State, F. F. V.'s and all, we
welcome you with all the warmth of love that is in our hearts. Use
freely what we offer, and if you do not see what yor want, ask for it.

"Where there are any shortcomings, we ask you to close your eyes
and take the will for the deed. There are before me several thousand
soldiers of the army, and very few of the navy.

"In speaking of the achievements of our soldiers, we are too apt
to allude to the army aud overlook the navy, which should not be so,
for our navy was the biggest little navy ever known in the history of
the world.

"Look at Mobile Bay, when the ram Tennessee, almost single-
handed, brought such destruction to the navy of sixteen vessels com-
manded by Admiral Farragut in person, and only surrendered when
so disabled that her port holes could not be opened, and she could not
be steered.

"The ram Arkansas, which ran the gauntlet of the enemy's navy
down the Yazoo to Vicksburg.

"The battle of Hampton Roads, which is familiar to all of 3'ou,
where our Merrimac, an old hull covered over with rolled plate iron,
whipped out the whole Federal fleet, Monitor and all, sinking several
vessels.

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"A battle so notable that it has been produced on canvas and
viewed by thousands all over the world and will go down in history
as one of the most remarkable naval events of the world.

""Who can read the rocord of Admiral Raphael Simmes and the
Alabama and other vessels and not be struck with their wonderful
achievements.

"This little navy spread consternation not only among the com-
mercial shipping of the United States all over the face of the globe
and almost drove it from the seas, but it also kept the United Slates
navy in constant terror, not knowing when or where one of our
daring vessels would turn up and produce consternation. All glory
to the Confederate navy.

"We are not ashamed for its record to go down to history for the
ages to come. Some may ciiticise our love for the Confederate flag
and our hearty welcome to the Confederate soldier, but we would be
recreant to our recoid as the Volunteer Slate were we to do otherwise.
The man who criticises does not know the pulsation of the Southern
heart .

"Being convinced of our duty, believing with all the lights before
us that we were light, willingly sacrificed lives and property upon
the alter of our beloved South. For our course in the great conflict
we have no excuses to offer nor apologies to make — we only did our
duty.

"Should our government declare war wilh a foreign country
(which I hope will never be done) and the President call upon us for
our quota of volunteers we would, as we have heretofoie always done,
offer more men than would be accepted.

"Tennessee, though for three years of the war her territory was
nearly all in the enemy s lines, furnished 115,000 men, being one-sixth
of the whole Confederate army and second in rank as to numbers
furnished by anv one Slate— our mother. North Carolina, Leing first,
with 125,000 men.

"And now it comes as my pleasant duty to turn over this
Re-union to our commander, General John B. Gordon." (Applause.)

At the conclusion of Colonel O'Bryan's speech General Gordon
responded to the addresses of welcome. He said :

General Gordon's Response.

Governor, Mr. Mayor, etc— For the second time in its brief life our
glorious brotbeihood convenes in annual reunion on the soil of Ten-
nessee. And what State of those which formed the Confederate
Union is more worthy of this repeated tribute from these Confederate
survivors? What State in the whole American Union can boast a
prouder record in war or peace? From no portion of this country
has there come in the past or will there come in the future a readier
response to duty's call or a nobler zeal for the public welfare than
from this nursery of patriotic men and women.

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Although with the war of 1812 -15 Tennessee was the third
youngest Slate in the American Union, yet she came to the front and
furnished to the American army its leader in the person of its im-
mortal son Andrew Jackson, that " lone star of the people," whose
very name was the synonym of victory in war and peace ; and whose
iron will, restless energies and towering genius formed at New
Orleans a mightier bulwark of defense than the breastworks of cotton
bales, before which the British banners went down in defeat.

Later on, it was an ex- Governor of Tennessee, the eccentric, the
inimitable, the indomitable Sam Houston — that Miltiades of the
Southwest — who met at San Jacinto and hurled back the invading
armies of Mexico and gave to Texas her republican freedom.

It was Tennessee's illustrious son, James K. Polk, under whose
brilliant and triumphant administration was waged the Americo-
Mexiean war, California acquired and that Eldorado of the Pacific
placed within American borders.

And what shall be said of Tennessee's record in our civil war —
that Titantic struggle of the sixties? Divided in sentiment, in pur-
pose and convictions throughout the mountain regions of her eastern
section, in the exuberance and prodigality of her patriotism, her
valiant sons rushed into the ranks of both armies, and from the
superabundance of her talent she gave leaders, civil and military, to
both sides. On tbe Union side she gave to the civil councils of the
nation a Vice-President, Andrew Johnson. She also gave to that side
pei haps the foremost Union agitator of the South in Ihe person of
the excentric, the redoubtable, the combative and combustible Pardon
Brownlow. On the Confederate side she furnished to the Southern
Army some of its most dauntless divisions and brilliant leaders.
Among these latter was ber Frank Cbeatham, whose fiery "forward,
boys, and give 'en-—," sent bis yelling ranks, with resistless Jury
against the foe ; ber quaint and unrivaled Bedford Forrest, tbat
wizard of war, tbat wiliest bnigbt tbat ever straddled horse or leveled
lance ; her bishop soldier, Leonidas PoMj, worthy to bear the name
and be forever associated in historj with that great Grecian Leonidas,
who won an immortality of fame in defense of Greek freedom and
the Greek Confederacy.

Sir, I might add to this proud array a long catalogue of her
noble dead and brilliant living heroes ; but it is jerhaps enough for
me to say that no words of mire can fitly describe the past glories of
this great Volunteer State, of whose boundless hospitality we are now
the happy recipients.

Her blue grass fields and cedar hills and mountain sides no
longer resound with the tread and clash of contending aimies. Even
tbe faint echoes of that heioic stiuggle which drenched ber soil in
blood have died away, and are lost in the music of her moving indus-
tries and the swelling anthem of peace and of national fraternity.

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And now my fellow-countrymen of Tennessee and of Nashville,
it only remains for me, as the selected represenlative of this bcdy of
Confederate braves, to express their heartfelt appreciation of this
most magnificent welcome. In their behalf I bring gladly the hom-
age of our hearts' tribute and lay them on the altar of Tennessee's
patriotism.

While General Gordon was speakiDg the fall of a pin might
almost have been heard in the big Tabernacle except at intervals
when his burning words of eloquence elicited enthusiastic applause.

At the conclusion of General Gordon's speech Colonel John P.
Hickman moved that a committee on resolutions and also one on
credentials be appointed, and the names of the members, one from
each division, be handed to the Adjutant General at the conclusion
of the orations, which was unanimously carried.

Mrs. John Overton announced a reception to be held at the
Capitol at 8 P. M.

General Gordon then introduced Colonel A. S. Colyar as one of
Tennessee's most distinguished sons, who would introduce the orator
of the occasion, Judge John H. Reagan, of Texas.

Colonel A. S. Colyar's Remarks.

Ladies and Gentlemen — The General Committee has conferred on
me the pleasing duty of introducing to you Nashville's distinguished
guest, the orator of this great occasion. I have atmy command nofittirg
words to speak what I feel. The honors that cluster about our guest
are shared by our beloved State, for this is the land of his nativity,
and with me there is a little sentiment in this meeting on this plat-
form. He and I were born in the same beautiful valley under the
shadows of the same great mountains of East Tennessee and within
a few days of the same time. For more than fifty years he has been
a great orator, while I have been a silent observer of men and their
deeds. Our guest has the longest and most varied public record of
any man now living on the American continent.

He was a soldier, and also held civil office in the Sam Houston
Texas Republic. He served his State after it was admitted into the
Union in the Lower House of Congress. He was a faithful and untir-
ing worker in the Cabinet of the President of the Confederate States.
He then served his State in the United States Senate, but resigned his
place in this august body to accept a work of drudgery at home, with
a greatly reduced salary, that he might possibly lift burdens from the
common people.

Young man, do you want to know what has kept this man in
position for almost seventy years? The answer is, his heart has
always been with the common people, and he has stood by them in
every struggle, putting behind him every temptation. The sheep
know their shepherd — the people know their friends.

What touches me is the fidelity of this man to the people
through every changing scene.

Will you bear with me while I break the monotony of the
introductory speech?

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Old soldiers, you men who had four years of training in the
school that makes a common brotherhood of men, I want you to
join me in a reverent and sincere invocation to Him who has our
destiny in His hands.

Great King, be merciful to us; deal kindly with this great
rf public. Save it from the power of the octopus and the greed of
the cormorant. And through the long years to come put men in
high places who will ever put temptation behind them and stand
by the people in all their trials, as thy servant, John H. Eeagan,
has done, we ask in the name of our Master. Amen.

Judge John H. Reagan.

Colonel Colyar's speech was greeted with enthusiastic cheer-
ing, which developed into a storm of applause as Judge Reagan
advanced. When order had been restored, Judge Reagan spoke
as follows:

Covipalriots, Ladies and Gentlemen — This great assemblage and
this interesting occasion calls up many memories of great events.
It brings into review the earnest and able discussions which pre-
ceded the year 1861, on the great questions which led up to the
war between the States; the separation of the members of the
Thirty-sixth Congress; the action of the Southern States in passing
the ordinances of secession; the organization of the government
of the Confederate States of America; the commencement of hos-
tilities at Charleston harbor, the call for volunteers by President
Lincoln; the enthusiasm with which men on both sides volun-
teered to enter the great struggle; the separation of husbands and
fathers from wives and children, of sons from fathers and mothers,
of brothers from sisters, and of lovers from their sweethearts, with
eyes bedewed with tears and hearts throbbing with patriotism, to
enter the camps of instruction, make the long marches and engage
in the fierce conflicts of battle. It brings into review the assem-
bling of mighty armies, their toilsome marches, the sickness and
suffering in camps, the thousands of skirmishes and battles, partic-
ipated in by hundreds of thousands of brave men, the sufferings
of the wounded, and the great number who fell on each side as
martyrs to their patriotic devotion to the causes they believed to be
right and just, in the greatest war of modern times; a war in
which hundreds of thousands of brave men lost their lives, and
which left to the future a vast army of mourning widows and chil-
dren and sorrowing relatives and friends, and which caused the
sacrifice of billions of dollars worth of property. And it calls up
our remembrance of the great labor and sacrifices of our noble
women in caring for the children and aged at home, and in pre-
paring and sending to the armies clothes and food for their loved
ones, and in ministering to the sick and wounded in the hospitals.

Upon the foregoing facts the inquiry arises: Why all this
strife and suffering and death between a people of the same coun-
try, the same race, and in a general way of the same political and
religious opinions?

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AFRICAN SLAVERY AN INHERITANCE.

My answer is that it was an inheritance from the governments
of Europe and from our ancestors, which raised a question involv-
ing too much of the social and industrial structure of society, and
too much of property values, to admit of adjustment in the ordin-
ary methods of negotiation and compromise. And its decision was
therefore submitted to the arbitrament of war.

I say it was an inheritance because the authorities, including the
crowned heads of ^Great Britain, France and Spain, and the Dutch
merchants, planted African slavery in all the American colonies. And
in their times they and the priesthood justified this on the grounds
that it was a transfer of the Africans from a condition of barbarism
and cannibalism to a country where they would be instructed in the
arts of civilized life, and in the knowledge of the Christian religion.
The institution of African slavery thus found its way into all of the
thirteen American colonies, and it existed in all of them at the date
of the Declaration of American Independence, in 1776. And African
slavery existed in all but one of these colonies at the time of the for-
mation of the Constitution of the United States, in 1789. There were
at that time those who objected to it as violating the principles of
human liberty. But notwithstanding such objections, the wise and
great men who formed the Constitution, recognizing the existing
industrial and social conditions of society which had grown out of
the existence of African slavery, incorporated in it the following
provision:

CONSTITUTION RECOGNIZES SLAVERY.

Article 1, section 2, paragraph 3, is as follows: "Representatives
and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which
may be included in this Union according to their respective numbers,
which may be determined by adding to the whole number of free
persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and
excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons." Thus
recognizing slavery and the partial representation of slavery in Con-
gress.

Article 4, section 2, paragraph 3, provides that " No person held
to service of labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein be
discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on
claim of the party to whcm such services or labor may be due." Thus
providing for the protection of the rights of the owners of slaves by
requiring their return to their masters when escaping from one state
into another.

Article 1 , section 9, paragraph 1, provides as follows: "The
migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now
existing may think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by Con-
gress prior to the year 1808; but a tax or duty may be imposed on

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such importation not to exceed $10 for each person." Thus, not only
by the foregoing provisions recognizing African slavery, but making
provision for the continuance of the slave trade for twenty years after
the adoption of the Constitution.

OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.

Those who defended the institution of slavery quoted the Old
Testament scriptures, and the device of Christ, our Savior, as given
in the New Testament, and the example of the nations of the past in
justification of its existence.

AGITATION OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

From early times there were those who questioned the rightful-
ness of slavery, possibly without sufficient consideration of the char-
acter of the different races of people. This feeling grew first with
the philanthropic and religious classes, until at last it was seized
upon by political demagogues as an individual method of political
agitation and declamation by office-seekers. It grew, until mobs.
Legislatures and courts repudiated the Constitutional provisions, the
acts of Congress and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States, which protected slavery in the states where it
existed, and required the rendition of slaves when they escaped
into other states. The agitation of this question gathered in
strength and violence until it resulted in civil war in Kansas,
followed by the raid of John Brown and his followers, who invaded
the state of Virginia for the purpose of inciting the negroes to a war
of races. And because he was lawfully arrested and convicted and
hung by the authorities cf the state of Virginia for levying v»ar on
the state, in an effort to bring about a horrid war between the negroes
and whites, many of the Northern churches were draped in mourning
and many of the Northern people applauded his efforts and eulogized
this felon as a hero and amartjr. This was followed by the nomi-
nation and election of a purely sectional and anti-slavery ticket for
President and Vice-President of the United States, and during the
Congress which immediately preceded the secession of the Southern
states, thirty odd measures of compromise were introduced in one of
the other branch of Congress, in the hope of securing the adoption
of a policy by which the union of the States and the rights of the
States and the people could be preserved and war prevented. Each
of these propositions of compromise was introduced either by a
Southern man or a Northern Democrat, and every one of them was
received with hooting and derision by the Republican members, as
the Congressional Globe of that period will show. And the Southern
members were told that they had to submit to the will of the ma-
jority, plainly showing that our people could no longer rely for the
protection of the rights of the States or of the people on the enforce-
ment of the provisions of the Constitution and the laws of the United
States. Could any people have submitted to all this who were worthy
of liberty and good government ?

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VINDICATE THE TRUTH.

You must understand that I do not make this recital for the pur-
pose of renewing the prejudices and passions of the past, but only
for the purpose of showing to our children and to the world that the
ex-Confederates were not responsible for the existence of African
slavery in this country, and were not responsible for the existence of
the great war which resulted from the agitation of that question,
and that they were neither traitors nor rebels.'

Comrades, by the laws of nature I can, at most, be with you but
a few vears longer, and I feel it to be my duty to you and to pos-
terity to make these statements of the facts of history, which vindi-
cate us against the charge of being either rebels or traitors, and
which show that we were not the authors of " a causeless war, brought
about by ambitious leaders " ; but that our brave men fought and
suffered and died, and our holy men of God prayed, and our noble
women suffered patiently and patriotically all the privations and hor-
rors of a great war, cruelly forced upon us, for the purpose of up-
holding the constitution and laws of the United States, and for the
preservation of the rights of the several States to regulate their own
domestic policies, and for the protection of the people against
spoliation and robbery by a dominant majority, some of whose
members, because the Holy Bible sanctioned slavery, declared that
they wanted an "anti-slavery Bible and an anti-slavery God," and
who, because the constitution of the United States recognized and
protected slavery, declared that it was a " league with hell and a
covenant with death."

Whatever may have been said in the past in the defense of the
institution of slavery, and whatever may now be thought of the
means by which it was abolished in this country, the spirit of the
present age is against it, and it has passed away, and I suppose no
one wishes its restoration, if that were practicable. Certainly I would
not restore it if I had the power. I think it better for the black race
that they are free, and I am sure it is better for the white race that
there are no slaves.

Some great Macaulay of the future will tell these grand truths
to posterity better and more forcibly than I can in this brief address,
and will by reference to history, to the sacred scriptures, and to the
constitution of the United States, as made by our revolutionary
fathers, vindicate the patriotism and the heroic virtues and struggles
of our people.

WHY THE WAR WAS NOT AVOIDED BY A COMPROMISE.

In later times those not familiar with the facts to which I am re-
ferring have asked the question : " Why was this great question not
compromised?" stating tbat it would not have cost a fifth of the
money to pay for and liberate the slaves that the war cost, and tbat
in that way the tens of thousands of valuable lives of good men might
have been saved, and all the attendant suffering prevented,

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The first answer to that question is, that the slaves in the United
States at the beginning of the war were estimated to be of the value
of three thousand million dollars, and if they were to be liberated,
common honesty required that it should have been at the expense of
the nation which was responsible for its existence. The Republicans
and the anti-slavery people were then a majority of the whole people,
and, had full possession of the Federal government, or were ready
and authorized to take full possession of it. And they demanded that
the whole loss to arise from the freeing of the slaves should fall on
their owners and on the Southern states. They never proposed, and
would not have consented, for the Federal government and the North-
ern people to pay any part of the cost of freeing the slaves. Their
patriotism was not of the kind which would cause them to assume a
part of the burden of correcting what they claimed to be a
great national wrong, which we inherited from other and older
nations, and which was incorporated in our social and industrial
systems, and sanctioned by our constitutions, state and Federal, in
the organization of the governments. The agitators were willing and
anxious to be patriotic and just at the expense of other people.

The second answer to it is, that the industrial and social systems
of the Southern states were so interwoven with the interests of slavery
that the people then believed the freedom of the slaves, without com-
pensation, meant the bankruptcy of the people and states where it
existed, to be followed, probably, by a war of races. I am speaking
of what they then believed. As an evidence that our own people, in
the earlier years of the republic, recognized the necessity of acquiesc-
ing in the social and industrial conditions which had grown out of
African slavery, history tells us that General George Washington, who
was an extensive slave-holder, was made Commander-in-Chief of our
Revolutionary armies. He was the president of the convention which
formed the Constitution of the United States, and was elected as the
first President of the United States, and was re-elected to that posi-
tion. Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, Mr. Monroe, General Jackson, Mr.
Polk and General Taylor were each elected President of the United
States, and all of them were the owners of slaves. They, like the
framers of the Constitution, recognized that this country had inher-
ited a condition of things in this respect in which it became necessary
to acquiesce. I do not assume to know whether if a proposition to
pay for the slaves had been made, it would have been accepted.

Such a sacrifice as that, which was demanded of the Southern
people, has not in the world's history been submitted toby any people
without an appeal to the last dread arbitrament of war. 4nd ours
were a chivalric, intelligent, proud and liberty-loving people, and if
they had submitted to this sacrifice without a struggle they would
have proven themselves unworthy to be free men, and unworthy of
the proud title of being Americans. And I say now, with deliberation
and sincerity, in view of all the calamities of that war, it the same
condition of things could again occur, I would rather accept such

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calamities than belong to a race of cowards and surrender the most
sacred rights of self-governmant to the clamor of a majority over-
riding the Constitution and detnandiug terms so revolting to our
sense of justice.

THE HAMPTON ROADS CONFERENCE.
In this connection I desire to say that it has been frequently
asserted of late years that at the conference between President Lincoln
and Secretary Seward of the Federal side, and Messrs. Stephens,
Hunter and Campbell, of the Confederate side, at Hampton Roads, on
the 3d of January, 1865, that President Lincoln offered the Confeder-
ates $400,000,000 for the slaves if they would abandon the war and
return to the Union. This story has assumed various forms to suit
the rhetoric of the speakers and writers who have given it currency.
I wish to assert most solemnly that no such offer in auy form was
made. All the papers relating to the Hampton Roads conference are
given -in "McPherson's History of the Rebellion," as he calls it. They
show that the joint resolution for amending the Constitution of the
United States was passed by Congress, submitting to the states the
question of abolishing slavery in the United States, two or three days
before the date of that conference. The report of the commissioners
on the part of the Confederacy, which was published at the
time, shows that no such offer was made or referred to in that
conference. The statement of President Davis and that of President
Lincoln and of Secretary Seward show that no such offer was made
or talked of at that conference. This false statement has been often
made. It is disproven by every man who was there, and by every
paper which has been written by or for the men who were there.
Neither President Lincoln nor any other man on the Federal side
would have dared to make such an offer at that time. It was stated
at the time, and I believe the statement to be true, that the Congress
hurried the joint resolution above named through so as to forestall
the possibility of any such proposition. The object of this untruthful
statement was no doubt to cast odium on the Confederate President
and authorities by trying to show that they would accept uo terms of
peace and were responsible for the continuance of the war. President
Davis appointed Vice-President Stephens to go to Washington in
1864, ostensibly to secure a renewal of the cartel for the exchange of
prisoners, but the real purpose of his mission was to see President
Lincoln for the purpose of ascertaining on what conditions the war
could be terminated. But he was not permitted by the Federal
authorities to pass through their military lines. Then he appointed
the commissioners to the Hampton Roads conference for the same
purpose. And afterwards, in 1865, he authorized Gen. R. E. Lee to
try to negotiate through General Grant for the same purpose. I men-
tion these facts to show that it is a mistake to suppose that Presi-
dent Davis neglected any means in his power to end the war on hon-
orable terms, and mention them because of the many misrepresenta-
tions which have been made on this subject. He could not have

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made public all he did in this respect at the time without discourag-
ing our army and the people. And if at any time he had proposed or
consented to unconditionally surrender he would have been in danger
of violence at the hands of our own people. Neither he nor they pro-
posed or intended to surrender unconditionally unless overpowered.

RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION.

After the overthrow of the Confederate government and the sur-
render of the Confederate armies, the work of the restoration of
Federal authority in the Southern States was commenced, while the
excitement and passions and prejudices of the war were in full blaze,
and were intensified by the assassination of President Lincoln, with
which it was unjustly assumed the Confederate authorities had some
connection, but which was regarded by them as most unfortunate for
the people who had adhered to the fortunes of the Confederacy.

Under the state of feeling which then existed on both sides, it
was hardly to be expected that a wise and temperate policy of recon-
struction would be adopted, while many of the churches of the
Northern States were resolving, and some of their ministers of the
religion of Christ were preaching a crusade of hate, proscription and
revenge against the Southern people.

Tne plan adopted for the pacification of the Southern people was
to deprive them of all political rights, put them under military rule,
and suspend the right of the writ of habeas corpus, so that there
could be no relief or redress for any wrong done to a citizen, however
unlawful or outrageous. Our citizens were subject to arrest by the
military authority without an affidavit or formal charge, or legal war-
rant, and to detention without knowing what the charges against
them were, and to trial by a drumhead court-martial without the in-
tervention of a jury.

A large part of the Southern States had been devastated by
war ; the people had exhausted their resources in the endeavor to
maintain their cause, and tens of thousands of their bravest and best
men had either fallen in battle or died in the service. Beaten in
battle, denied political rights and the protection of law, governed
by an unfriendly military authority, and by the negroes, carpetbag-
gers and scalawags (I mention them in the order of their respecta-
bility), plundered and robbed by employes of the Treasury Depart-
ment, and constantly menaced by loyal leagues composed of the
elements above named, their condition seemed to be as hopeless as
can well be imagined.

If, under the Providence of God, the life of President Lincoln
could have been spared, so that reconstruction and the restoration of
the Union could have been brought about under his supervision, and
that of the officers and soldiers who fought the battles of the Union,
I believe the country would have been saved from the introduction of
abnormal military governments which are so unfriendly to civil rights

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and political liberty, and so contrary to the genius of our govern-
ment; and that the people of the Southern states would have been
saved from much of the enormous sacrifices and suffering which they
were compelled to endure during the period of reconstruction; the
demagogues in politics, the unchristian persecutions by religious
bodies and the thieving treasury officials would not have had so wide
a field for their operations.

STATEMENTS NOT PLEASANT, BUT NECESSAKY.

It is unpleasant for me to make the foregoing recitals, and the
more so because the purpose for which they are made may be misun-
derstood or misrepresented. The restoration of peace, good govern-
ment, the rule of law, and the good will between those who were once
enemies, is as gratifying to me as it can be to any other citizen. But
the charge has been constantly made since the war that the Confed-
erates were rebels and traitors, and the effort is all the time being
made to educate the rising generation into the belief that their fathers
and their mothers were rebels and traitors, and, therefore, lawless
criminals. Without malice against any of our fellow-citizens, I feel
it to be my dnty to the memory of our heroic dead, to the surviving
associates and those who are to come after us, to make the foregoing
statements in vindication of the truths of history, and in justification
of the patriotism, the manhood and love of justice of those who de-
fended the lost cause, and offered their all in an effort to preserve
their constitutional rights against the aggressions of a hostile ma-
jority .

CITIZENS OF A COMMON GOVERNMENT.

And now that we are again citizens of the United States, living
under the same government, constitution and flag, our late adver-
saries ought not to desire to degrade us in the eyes of posterity,
and if they would be wise and just they should not wish to place
our people in history in the position of being unworthy of the
rights, liberty and character of citizens of our great and common
country.

And while I have accepted, and do accept, in good faith, the
legitimate results of the war, and while I am, and will be, as true to
my allegiance and duty to our common government as any other
citizen can be, I shall insist on my right to tell the truths which
show that in that great struggle we were guided and controlled by
a sense of duty and by a spirit of patriotism which caused us to
stake life, liberty and property in a contest with a greatly superior
power rather than basely surrender our rights without a struggle.

OFFICES COULD HAVE BEEN HAD.

It is fitting and proper at this point that I should refer to a
matter which fitly illustrates the character of the Southern people.
There was never a time during all the perils and suffering of recon-
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side could not have obtained positions of honor and emolument
under the Federal government if they would have consented to
surrender their convictions and betray their people. A very few
did so and thereby earned an everlasting infamy. But nearly all
of them stood by their convictions and preserved their honor, and
thereby proved themselves worthy of citizenship in the greatest and
proudest government on earth.

Having attempted to fulfill an unpleasant duty in what I have
so far said, I now turn to the consideration of more pleasant
subjects.

From the desolation, absence of civil government and po-
litical rights and of law throughout the Southern states less than
thirty years ago, we now, in all these states, have good civil
government, good laws faithfully enforced, liberty protected,
society reorganized, peace and industry re-established with many
valuable enterprises put into successful operation, and with a steady
and wonderful increase in population, wealth and the comforts of
civilized life. This constitutes the greatest and proudest vindi-
cation of the capacity of our people for local self-government, and
is a grander and nobler achievement by our people than was ever
obtained by war. It is the triumph of their capacity for self-
government, and shows that our people are worthy the possession
of the political power and religious liberty which they now enjoy;
and which shows them worthy of political equality with those who
were once our enemies. In this great Centennial Exposition of
Tennessee we have before us a magnificent exhibition of the results
of Southern enterprises and prosperity to gladden the hearts of
our people and to gratify the pride of the people of this great State .
Andto-day the people of the South are as earnest in their attach-
ment to our common government as those of any other part of the
Union, and would make as great sacrifices, if need be, in defense of
our government as could be made by any other part of the
American people. Enjoying peace and liberty to-day, we can
refer with pride to the courage and heroism of our soldiers in the
late war, and to the gallantry and skill of our officers. And when
impartial history comes to be written we do not doubt but that it
will be seen that they were never excelled in the qualities of patient,
endurance and manly courage by any other people.

CHARACTER OF CONFEDERATE LEADERS.

The names of Jefferson Davis, R. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
Albert Sydney Johnston and many others of our heroic leaders will
go into history, illuminated by a halo of courage and skill and
purity of life and patriotism unsurpassed by any other names in
history. As indicating the faith of President Davis in God and his
devout earnestness, I recall attention to the closing sentence of his
inaugural address, after his election under the constitutional gov-
ernment of the Confederacy, made on the 22d day of February,

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1862 . Raising his hands, at the close of his address, and looking
toward the heavens, he said : "And now, O God, I commit my
country and her cause into thy holy keeping," thus showing the
solemnity with which he assumed anew the duties of President of
the Confederacy.

THE WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY.

History notes, with the richest praises, the matrons of Rome
They were no doubt worthy of all that has been said of them. But
their honors cluster about them when Rome was a great and
victorious nation. This is not said to [heir discredit, but to contrast
with them the noble and devoted women of the Confederacy. The
grandeur of their lives and conduct was exhibited in a cause in
which the odds were greatly against their country, in which great
sacrifices were necessary, and in which success was at all times
doubtful. I never felt my inability to do justice to any subject so
keenly as I do when attempting to do justice to the character,
services and devotion of the women of the Confederacy. They gave
to the armies their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers with
aching hearts, and bade them good -by with sobs and tears, but
they believed the sacrifice was due to their country and her cause.
They assumed the care of their homes and of the childx*en and aged.
Many of them who had been reared in ease and luxury had to
engage in all the drudgery of the farm and shop. Many of them
worked in the fields to raise the means of feeding their families.
Spinning wheels and looms were multiplied where none had been
seen before, to enable them to clothe their families and furnish
clothing to the loved ones in the army, to whom with messages of
love and encouragement they were, whenever they could, sending
something to wear or to eat. And like angels of mercy they visited
and attended the hospitals with lint and bandages for the
wounded, and medicine for the sick, and such nourishment as
they could for both. And their holy prayers at all times went to
the throne of Cod for the success of the Confederate cause. There
was a courage and a moral heroism in their lives superior to that
which animated our brave men, for the men were stimulated by the
presence of their associates, the hope of applause, and by the
excitement of battle, while these noble women, in the seclusion and
quietude of their homes, were inspired by a moral courage which
could come only from God and the love of country. I hope we are
to have a Battle Abbey, and if we should the honor of our South-
land demands that at at the same place there should be a splendid
monument erected to commemorate the constancy, the services and
the virtues of the noble women of the Confederacy. And since the
war some of our grand and noble women: The widow of President
Davis, the widow of Stonewall Jackson and the widow of Colonel
C. M. Winkler, of Texas, have earned the gratitude of our people
by books they have furnished us, containing most valuable contri-
butions to the literature of the war and supplying a feature in it
that no man has or could supply.

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To illustrate the character and devotion of the women of the
Confederacy, I will repeat a statement made to me during the war
by Governor Letcher, of Virginia. He had visited his home in the
Shenandoah Valley, and on his return to the state capital called at
the house of an old friend who had a large family. He found no
one but the good old mother at home, and inquired about the bal-
ance of the family. She told him that her husband, her husband's
father and her ten sons were all in the army. And on his sugges-
tion that she must feel lonesome, having had a large family with
her and to be now left alone, her answer was that it was very hard,
but that if she had ten more sons they should all go to the army.
Can ancient or modern history show a nobler or more unselfish and
patriotic devotion to any cause ?

THE MAGNITUDE OF THE WAR.

There have been, and there still may be, those who affect to
speak lightly of the Confederacy; but a cause and a country which
it required more than four years of terrible war, and armies of more
than two million seven hundred thousand men, and which cost the
lives of hundreds of thousands, counting the loss on both sides,
the expenditure of billions of dollars, and the sacrifice of other
hundreds of billions of dollars worth of property to overcome, can
hardly be belittled by any honest or sensible man. We c*n well
afford to wait the verdict which history will render on the men and
women of the late Confederacy.

At frequent intervals Judge Reagan was interrupted by loud
and prolonged applause, nis tribute to the Southern women being
especially well received.

At the conclusion of the oration it was moved by Chaplain
General J. William Jones (and seconded) that the thanks of this
convention be tendered to Hon. John H. Reagan for his able, elo-
quent and satisfactory address, and that a copy be solicited for
publication. The motion prevailed unanimously.

Ad]utant-General Moorman advanced to the front of the stage
and said he was requested by General Gordon to state that at 11
o'clock tomorrow, or immediately after the reading of the report of
the Committee on History, that he would in a few remarks return
to his comrades the commission which they had so generously
and unanimously bestowed upon him for the past eight years, in
compliance with the announcement made by him in his address to
his comrades, dated June 10, 1897.

After Judge Reagan had concluded his speech some confusion
arose. Some of the delegates wanted to adjourn and others favored
appointing the committees on credentials and resolutions. General
Gordon used his gavel with some effect and finally brought the
house to order. He then read out the following orders :

" Ashby's Tennessee Cavalry Brigade reunion at Foggs School
building this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

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"All ex-Confederates of Kentucky are ordered to meet each
morning at 9 o clock at their headquarters in Foggs School buildine-

"GEN. JOHN BOYD, Commanding."

A motion was then made that a committee be appointed to
draw up resolutions of thanks to Judge Keagan for his speech
Ine delegates were unanimously in favor of it

Major J. A Enslow, Jr of Florida, moved that a sergeant-at-
arms be appointed for each division, which motion was seconded
and carried. ^cu.

The division from Texas was ordered to meet in the Tabernacle
and organize and other States were notified to select their commit-
teemen on credentials and resolutions and their sergeant-at-arms
during the afternoon and hand their names to the Adjutant-General
so as to be able to proceed with business tomorrow.

The convention then adjourned until tomorrow at 9 a. m.

SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

MORNING SESSION.

Wednesday, June 23j 1897.

The great Tabernacle building presented an animated scene
this morning long before 9 o'clock, the hour set for the second
day s meeting of the Confederate convention.

By 8 o'clock the delegates and their old comrades began to
gather and until General Gordon's arrival the time was spent in
the interchange of war reminiscences, warm greetings by old com-
rades who had not before seen each other until this reunion and a
sort of miniature Confederate love-feast was the order.

When the hour of 9 o'clock arrived nearly every seat on the
lower floor was occupied and a portion of the gallery was filled and
as General Gordon, the General Commanding, appeared he' was
greeted with tremendous and continued aoplause.

The confusion caused by the steady stream of arrivals was so
great that it was Dearly 9:30 o'clock when General Gordon suc-
ceeded in rapping the convention to order and asked that the busi-
ness of the session be opened with the long-metre doxology.

The meeting was then opened by the members and the entire
audience standing, and singiag as with one voice, " Praise God
from Whom All Blessings flow."

General Gordon led and the voices of thousands of old battle-
scarred veterans joined with him in singing that old familiar tune.

PRAYER BY REV. DR. D. C. KELLEY.

At the conclusion of the singing Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelley who had
served throughout the entire war with Forrest as Major, Lieuten-
ant, Colonel and Colonel of Forrest's old Regiment, led in a prayer
the words of which went straight to the hearts of all present In
burning and eloquent words he prayed that God's blessings mi<*ht

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rest upon the convention, upon the old Confederates, upon their
families and loved ones; he prayed for the President of the Unifed
States, for the glory of the nation, and thanked God that he had
given to the nation such men as the Confederate soldiers. He
prayed for Queen Victoria and thanked God for her wise and pros-
perous reign over the mother country. Dr. Kelley concluded by
asking all present to join him in the Lord's prayer and the lips of
thousands again moved in audible supplication to him who watches
over all alike.

General Wade Hampton.

General Gordon said he had a letter to read from one of the
Southern army's most distinguished leaders who was prevented
from being present by illness. The letter he said was from General
Wade Hampton.

At the mention of this loved name, wild cheers rose fx*om the
throat of every Confederate in the vast assemblage.

General Gordon then read as follows :

Charlottesville, May 15, 1897.

To General John B. Gordon :

My Dear General — A. severe and protracted attack of illness
from which I am slowly recovering makes it impossible for me to
meet my comrades at Nashville. This is a great disappointment to
me, for I may not have the pleasure of meeting them again, but my
best wishes are always with them. As my health will not permit
me to discharge the duties of the position to which my comrades
eleeted me at the reunion in Texas I must resign the commission
given to me, but whenever an apportunity offers for me to meet
my old friends I shall do so as a private — a position made honorable
by the Confederate soldiers. With my kind regards to you and all
of our veterans, I am, very truly yours,

WADE HAMPTON.

Great applause followed the reading of this letter.

General W. L. Cabell.

General Gordon then said : The Chair has the great pleasure
of reading a telegram from General Cabell. I know, my comrades,
without asking the question, that every heart here will echo the senti-
ment that I am about to utter, that we all feel the deepest sympathy
and regret at the sickness and absence of our comrades and offer our
wishes and hopes and prayers for the preservation of these and of all
of our brave brothers absent from us today, and I shall feel au-
thorized in sending your greeting and the pledge of your brave
hearts to those of our comrades who are absent.

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General Gordon then read the following telegram :

Dallas, Tex., June 22, 1897.

General Geo. Moorman, Adjutant-General United Confederate Head-
quarters, Nashville, Tenn.:

Sickness prevents me from being with you tcday, but my heart
is with you. God bless our noble order and bless my old comrades
and their families. W. L. CABELL.

The reading of this telegram evoked a spontaneous outburst of
applause and many an old soldier's eye glistened with a tear.

General Gordon announced that the convention was now ready
to proceed with regular business.

Comrade J. L. Jones, of Columbia, Tenn., moved that in order to
preserve order and facilitate business, that tne lower floor of the hall
be cleared of all except the delegates.

An amendment was offered that the platform be also cleared of
all except delegates and ladies.

Comrade Jones accepted this amendment.

Comrade Trezevant from Louisiana made a plea for system and
order and whatever would facilitate business, that the delegates had
come here to transact business, and should do the business for which
the convention was convened.

An amendment to Comrade Jones' motion was offered by a com-
rade from Alabama and seconded, that all ex- Confederates be ex-
cepted from that order and that they be allowed to retain their seats
on the platform .

It was moved that that amendment be laid on the table.

Several delegates arose to debate the question, and the Chair
ruled that it was not debatable.

Question ! Question ! was then called, and a motion made to vote
by States.

The motion of call by States was withdrawn and a division
called for.

Comrade Jones, of Tennessee, said he desired it to be distinctly
understood and made the motion so as to bring it to the attention of
all those present, that none but delegates be allowed vote, as more
than one-half of those in the audience were not delegates.

General Win. H. Jackson, of Tennessee, stated that he rose to
a point of order, which was that neither is the motion of Comrade
Jones nor any business properly before this body until the report
of the Committee on Credentials is received; that the Convention
was not yet organized, and that it is utterly impracticable to carry
out the provisions of the motion, as to who are and who are not
delegates as that fact is not yet known to any one.

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The Chair: The point of order raised by General Jackson is
sustained, as a single objection offered until after the report of the
Committee on Credentials is received and acted upon, is sufficient to
set any motion aside.

The comrade can renew his motion after the Committee on Cre-
dentials report if he so desired.

COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.

The Chair — The names of the Committee on Credentials have been
banded in from the different divisions and will now be announced.
Reading Clerk E. C. Manning then read :

Alabama Daniel Coleman

Arkansas Jas. P. Coffin

District of Columbia H. B. Littlepage

Florida W. H. Hutchinson

Georgia L. P. Thomas

Indian Territory W. J. Watts

Kentucky Leeland Hathaway

Louisiana Albert Estopinal

Mississippi S. B. Watts

Maryland . . . E. S. Judge

Missouri Robert McCulloch

North Carolina A. B. Williams

New Mexico J. J. Leeson

Oklahoma J. F. Hall

South Carolina L. M. Davis

Tennessee J. A. Trousdale

Texas Dr. John D. Field

Virginia John J. Williams

West Virginia Isaac Kuykendall .

AN INSPIRING INCIDENT.

During the reading of the names of the Committee on Cre-
dentials the North Carolina division entered the Tabernacle, singing
a verse of the old " North State," Ncrth Carolina's song, as follows :

Carolina, Carolina, heaven's blessings defend her
While we live we will cherish, protect and defend her;
Though the scorner may scorn at and writhings defame her,
Our hearts swell with gladness whenever we name her.

Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the Old North State forever,
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the good old North State !

And marched around the rear end of the building with banners

fluttering, the bands playing and the great audience wildly cheering.

All thought of business was thrown to the winds for the moment

and the entire audience rose to cheer the battle-worn heroes from

the "Old North State."

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General Gordon caught the infection, and said in a voice that
could be heard even above the confusing sounds that prevailed;

" North Carolina has a right to interrupt the proceedings of any
body of men. North Carolina not only made a record in the Con-
federate army second to no State, but she hoisted, long before Jeffer-
son wrote, the banner of American independence. Three cheers for
North Carolina." The cheers were given heartily and then General
Gordon said, " Now let North Carolina be still."

After order had been restored Colonel Bennett H. Young,
delegate from George B. Eastin Camp, No. 803, of Louisville, Ey.,
was recognized, and said that he did not hear the name of Kentucky
read in the Committee on Credentials.

The Chair — Let Eentucky be placed on the Committee of Cre-
dentials, as there never was a Eentuckian unworthy to serve on any
committee.

The Chair announced that the Committee on Credentials would
meet at once in the gallery on the right of the Speaker's stand.

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.

The Chair then directed Reading Clerk Manning to announce
the names of the members of the Committee on Resolutions, which
were as follows :

Alabama Col. John W. A. Sanford

Arkansas Col. J. N. Smithee

District of Columbia Gen. Marcus J. Wright

Florida Major J. A. Enslow, Jr

Georgia W. W. Williford

Indian Territory Gen. John L. Gait

Kentucky Gen. E. A. Perry

Louisiana Gen. Leon Jastremski

Mississippi Col. D. A. Campbell

Maryland Col. H. Ashton Ramsey

Missouri , Hon. M. E. Benton

North Carolina Col. W. H. S. Burgwyn

New Mexico J. J. Leeson

Oklahoma Gen. John O. Casler

South Carolina W. G. Hinson

Tennessee Tomlinson Fort

Texas John N. Simpson

Virginia .Capt. D. C. Richardson

West Virginia Capt. Isaac Kuykendall

The Chair announced that the Committee on Resolutions would
meet in a room to the rear of the platform.

SERGEANTS-AT-ARMS.

The names of the following sergeants-at-arms were handed in
from the different divisions, and General Gordon directed Reading
Clerk Manning to announce them as follows :

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Alabama Capt. John F. Burns

Arkansas P. T. Devanney

District of Columbia A . G. Holland

Florida W. H. Hutchinson

Georgia Frank Myers

Indian Territory G. G. Buchanan

Kentucky. Alex Duke

Louisiana Thos. Higgins

Mississippi E. W. Brown

Maryland D. A. Fenton

Missouri Robt . Cunningham

North Carolina CB. Sykes

Oklahoma Capt. B. F. Phillips

South Carolina John Ahrens

Tennessee T. E. Jamison

Texas H. B. Johnson

Virginia Judge John C. Ewell

West Virginia J. A. Hearst

Great confusion here prevailed.

The Chair then called upon the sergeant-at-arms to clear the
aisles and to keep order, as it was essential to the success of the meet-
ing, and said: My comrades, jou have cone here to renew the ties
and friendships of the sixties and to transact such business as the
exigencies of our glorious brotherhood requires, and I call upon all of
you, my comrades, to preserve the strictest order and to pay atten-
tion to all the proceedings, and to assist the sergeant-at-arms in their
efforts, so as to facilitate the business, so that the proceedings of the
reunion may be conducted with that decorum and dignity to which the
glorious records of its illustrious members entitle it.

A number of resolutions were here offered, when the Chair ruled
that all resolutions were to be sent to Colonel John W. A. Sanford,
chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, and not read until re-
ported by the committee.

A verbal resolution was here offered that a cablegram be sent to
Queen Victoria of congratulations upon the celebration of her jubilee.

The Chair — Under the ruling the comrade must write out his
resolution, and it will be referred as are all others to the Committee
on Resolutions, unless unanimous consent be given.

A Delegate —I object, let it take the regular course.

Great disorder and confusion was occurring in different parts of
the house, and it seemed impossible for the sergeants-at arms to keep
order. The Chair — The Chair instructs the chief sergeant-at-arms
and his assistants to preserve order, even if they have to take men
out of this hall to preserve it. I take it no brave man will refuse
to obey the order of those who are selected to represent this organ-
ization. Now let these sergeant-at-aims proceed and see that order
is preserved.

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A resolution was here handed to the Committee on Resolutions',
from South Carolina.

The Chair: My comrades, jou are nrw to listen to the reading
of the report of the most important committee of our Association —
the Committee on History — which will he read to you by one who
needs no introduction from me, the chaiiman of it, our distinguished
friend and comrade, S. D. Lee.

General Lee was greeted with loud cheering', and after order was
restored read the splendid report of the committee, as follows:

COMMITTEE ON HISTORY REPORTS.

Nashville, Tenn,, June 22, 1897.

Major- General George Mom man, Adjutant- General and Chief of Stop,
United Confederate Veterans:

My Bear Sir — Your committee, known as the Historical Commit-
tee, and on Southern school history, appointed in New Orleans Aug-
ust 13, 1892, consisted of seven members. Upon the death of General
E. Kirby Smith and Prof. Elorzo Hill, Prof. Garrett, of Nashville,
Tenn , and General Clement A. Evans, of Atlanta, Ga, were appointed,
to fill the vacancies. This committee, under orders No. 147, of
date, August 1, 1895, was increased by eleven members, so that every
state and territory, or separate division, would he represented in the
committee.

Exhaustive reports were made at Birmingham, Houston and
Richmond, explaining in detail the necessity for the appointment of a
committee on history. This necessity existed from the fact that
owing to the unfortunate political conditions of the Southern states
incident to the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865, there could be no
organization of surviving Confederates earlier than 1889 without ex-
citing suspicion and distrust on the part of the people of the North.
The histories of the United States written for the first fifteen or
twenty years after the close of the war were very partisan and un-
friendly to the people of the South, generally misrepresenting their
motives and aims in going into the war between the states, branding
the people of the South as "traitors " and " rebels." These histories
were of such a character as to make them unfit for general use in the
public and private schools of the South, or of any part of the nation.

In this condition of affairs, the United Confederate Veterans felt
it their duty to take immediate steps to see that impartial histories
should be provided for use in the schools of the South, and inviting
Southern authors to write these histories rather for the purpose of
avoiding the partiality of Northern writers than to have Southern
histories written for the South, and Northern men to write histories
for the North. The three reports already made have been somewhat
exhaustive, and covered the period from the landing of the first colo-
nists in Virginia to the present time, and showing that the people of

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the South have been highly patriotic and had been a most important
factor in making the history of the United States, in increasing its
area, in fighting its battles, and in controlling and governing the
country. It was painfully evident to the committee that the writing
of history had been left mainly to Northern historians, showing sec-
tional bias in favor of the North, and none of them presenting the
true motives of the South.

From the earliest settlements in this country for nearly two hun-
dred and fifty years there have been a gradual divergence and devel-
opment of two civilizations, and causing continual friction, and finally
culminating in the greatest war of modern times. Common interest
held the colonies and states together, but the ties of union gradually
diverged as one section grew and overbalanced in numbers and
wealth, and the constitutional rights and guarantees of the weaker
section embodied in the written Constitution, which was adopted after
a successful union and revolution, were trampled under foot and
finally brushed away by a successful war. The reports already made
brought out the several epochs in the history of this country, show-
ing to what extent the South had contributed to the building up,
governing and development of the United States of America.

Although they had recommended several histories for use in the
schools of the South, they have never advised that the writing of a
history should be entrusted to one man, but invited everybody to do
the work, so that many minds would be invoked, instead of one; that
the work should assume various shapes, not only in the form of stan-
dard and school histories, but also state histories, magazine articles,
historical essays, local histories, etc. They felt that no one man
could explore this wide field, and that no one work could cover the
ground. With this introduction, and a full endorsement of what has
been said and done in the previous reports, your committee now
deem it proper to make a new departure in this report by confining
it to a consideration of the principles winch should govern writing
the history of the war between the states. They feel that the time
has come when every citizen of this country, whether living in the
North or South, now loves his country with an undjing patriotism;
that the great war between the states is a thing of the past, and that
there is honor and glory enough for every section of the c< untry, to
let the facts of history, which are undisputed, speak for th ?mselves,
and without being pres.nted to the American youth with prejudice
or partisanship; that the one object new should be to point our youth
to their liberty-loving fathers, who staked their lives and everything
upon the construction of the constitution of their country.

The question of state sovereignty is no longer dangerous to the
perpetuity of the Union. New constitutions in Southern states have
made it part of their fundamental law that there shall be no sece&sion
from the Union. There is, therefore, no longer any excuse for those
who would sow certain favored " views " in the minds of the children
of the country upon the specious plea that it is best for the coming
generations to believe them. Why should it now be concealed that

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secession as a practical measure was first advocated in New England?
that, as was said by a distinguished Senator from Massachusetts in
1889, "The Union was never in greater peril than in 1814, when
New England threatened secession unless the administration and the
ruling party yielded to her demands ?" that the Constitution of the
United States, in its original form, was an ambiguous instrument,
giving rise from the beginning to two cooflicting constructions, either
of which might be reasonably adopted? that that of Jefferson and
Madison, which prevailed at the South, led logically, as shown by
Calhoun, to the right of secession ? that the Southern people, in 1861,
grew apprehensive of the security of their property and their
domestic peace, and undertook to exercise what they took to be their
constitutional rights as well as the privilege of every free people to
form a new government which suited them better ? that the Northern
people, believing the other construction of the constitution to be the
true one, resisted the undertaking as unlawful and revolutionary?
that both sides fought for their respective causes with conscientious
devotion and splendid heroism ? that the fortunes of war went
against the South, and the constitutional theory of the victors
has now been established beyond question by the new amend-
ments, and by the subsequent decisions of the Supreme Court,
as well as the practice of the government, both of the Union
and of the states ? The truth is never dangerous to anything
that is fit to live. If these propositions are true, they should
be taught; if not, their error should be exposed. They do not call
upon any section of the country to describe the citizens of the other
by opprobrious epithets, or deny to the other patriotism, purity of
purpose, or good name. Surely the time has come at last when the
history of our great war can be taught throughout the country with-
out holding either army up to shame, but with justice and charity
towards all, imputing to both sides worthy motives, and dwelling
with equal praise upon noble, self-sacrificing conduct, inspired by love
of country, whether exhibited for the nation or for the state. Some-
thing will be found to condone, and something to condemn on both
sides, but very much more to honor and emulate. We rejoice to be-
lieve that our children will be able, without losing their faith in their
fathers, to find very much to honor and admire in the history of the
Union soldier, and that our children will have no pleasure or satis-
faction in reading treatises, in which the conduct of the soldiers of
Sherman and Sheridan will not be condoned. We shall be sorry for
the American youth who is brought up in the belief that the
large proportion of the Anglo-Saxon population of this country
at any time consisted of "traitors" and "rebels, or that patriotism,
intelligence or morality was ever bounded by State lines. Your
committee has no fear that the ultimate verdict of history, when the
"wise years decide," will be just to the Southern people. Its atten-
tion is directed simply to the temporary clouding of truth by the
prejudices and passions of the writer and reader, and the public mis-
fortune of teaching now what coming generations will consider

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deplorable error. It is against these prejudices and passions as
exhibited in historical teaching that its labors have been directed.
The time is not distant, and will be most welcome, when there shall
be no need of such labors, when a true national history shall take
the place of histories written to please, when writers shall find
neither pleasure nor advantage in condemnation of any section of
the country, or bidding us restrain the admiration due to noble and
beautiful characters for controversial reasons. There shall not be
one history for Massachusetts and another for South Carolina, but
Americans everywhere shall read the same book — not with the
blushes of shame or indignation, but kindling with noble enthusiasm
for the patriotism and virtue of our dead heroes, no matter what
State was honored in their birth, or what blood-stained flag floated
where they fell.

Now that thirty-two years have passed away since the close of
the war and a new generation has taken the place of one, familiar
from actual contact with the great events of that period, now that
we are compelled to teach the history of those times to our children,
the necessity presses upon us to provide such teaching as will be a
faithful presentation of those events. We believe that a presentation
as truthful and accurate as possible will be the one best calculated
to reproduce in American youth the sentiments of patriotic devotion
and heroic sacrifice which have made the brightest page in our his-
tory, and which form the only real safeguards of our liberty and
independence. The record of noble deeds is the richest heritage
the past has to give us, and the most fruitful page which we can lay
before our children. There is no other part of the history of our
nation so rich in actions which evoke even the admiration and honor
of mankind, and so apt to form the highest ideals of patriotism, as
the four eventful years from Manassas to Appomattox.

We recognize that the destiny of the South is now inseparably
bound up with that of this great republic, and that it is to the inter-
est of the whole nation, and of its citizens everywhere, that coming
generations of Southern men should give to the Union the same love
and devotion which their fathers so freely gave, first to the United
States and then to the ilistarred Confederacy, that Southern men
should not hereafter feet themselves in any way estranged from their
country, or ashamed of any part of its history — step-children, as it
were, in the national home.

Your committee has already called your attention to a condition
confronting us, in that the histories used in the common schools of
the nation were, to a very great extent, calculated to produce such an
estrangement on the part of the Southern youth. They were being
instructed that their fathers were traitors and rebels, insuirectionists
who plotted against the national life, and therefore unworthy of
their love and respect.

The efiect of such teaching as this is less apt to inspire Southern
youth with shame for their ancestors, since they are familiar with the
noble and stainless characters of the former leaders of their people —

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characters which other nations have rightly considered honorable and
glorious; than on the other hand to arouse revolt against such false
and unjust proscription, and to perpetuate a feeling of seperation from
the rest of the country, and chill the glowing fires of national patri-
otism.

The effort to secure the truthful teaching of history is founded
in no desire to perpetuate bitterness, but rather to teach American
youth that the contending armies of the North and South, each be-
lieving themselves in the right, each fought not only for the moral
right, but for the existing law as they understood it, and that, there-
fore, every self-denying deed, every patriotic death, is alike to be
treasured and beloved.

We can but pity the narrowness or blindi.ess of those who see in
the movement which culminated in secession nothing but a conspiracy
against government, a revolt against lawful anthority. Such a view
degrades the man who holds it more than the conscientious and brave
men who believed in 1861 that paramount allegiance was due to the
state rather than to the United States.

To say that the war was fought for the abolition of slavery is a
slander upon the soldiers of both armies, as well as upon the great
men who shaped the course of events at Washington and at Rich-
mond. The great question bequeathed to us, unsolved by the found-
ers of the republic, whether this was a nation or a league of sover-
eign states, had to be solved some day, and the fatal duty fell to our
generation. We utterly deny that the American people, alone among
civilized nations, were incompetent to abolish slavery without war.

Your committee recognizes that no sectional history is wanted
in the schools of this country, and they desire to have no history
taught in the schools of the South but what ought to be taught
in the schools of the nation everywhere. They would be more
than willing to have the facts taught without comment, if such
a course were possible. But they protest against the presumption
of those historians who teach their own views as God's truth
on all doubtful questions, and especially where such teaching is
is of a nature calculated to alienate the affections of the Southern
people from the nation of which they are loyal citizens. The his-
torian must, indeed, endeavor to write the truth as he sees it. Noth-
ing is to be gained by a colorless compromise of opinions about mat-
ters as to which the facts may be ascertained. The teacher must
also teach what he brlieves to be true. For that very reason it is not
expected that Southern teachers will instruct the children that their
fathers were traitors and rebels, and it would be a curse to the na-
tion if they did. The Southern people desire to retain from the
wreck in which their constitutional views, their domestic institutions,
the mass of their property, and the lives of their best and bravest
were lost, the knowledge that their conduct was honorable through-
out, and that their submission at last to overwhelming numbers and
resources in no way blackened their motives or established the wrong
of the cause for which they fought.

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It is not to be expected that those who fought on the Southern
side will admit that they were wrong simply becaure they were
beaten, or that the highest and noblest purposes of their lives are
worthy of the execration of mankind. The nation cannot afford to
have the people of the S mth lose their self-respect, or the future
citizens of that large and most promising section of the country
brought up without that pride in their ancestors which leads to noble
and patriotic action. Those who endeavor to undermine the faith of
the Southern youth in their ancestors, and to perpetuate teaching in
this country which indicts a noble people, an integral part of the na-
tion, for treason and rebellion, are the real enemies of the Republic —
the plotters against its glory, and the perpetuation of • its liberties.
How short-sighted are those who think it contributes to the glory of
the Union soldier, to make odius the brave men they overcame; re-
membering the victories of both, each army is made more glorious by
every deed or valor, every act of pure and consecrated heroism ex-
hibited by the other. The soldier of the Union having the prestige
of success, can afford to be generous in this matter. They have, of
all others, most to lose by invoking upon the Southern soldier the
condemnation of history.

Your committee is of the opinion that it is desirable and
advisable that in future no more school histories or historical works
of any sort, receive their official commendation. They have
suggested a list of books for library purposes, useful as materials
for writing history with a correct understanding of the motives and
feelings of the Southern people before, during and immediately after
the civil war, and of the events themselves as they were understood
to be by that people. To this list, it may be well to add others from
time to time.

But your committee cannot undertake to endorse historical
works as true, or recommend them as containing the real history of
the greatest events in our country's past, and will not presume to do
so. Apart from the danger of error, to embark on such a course,
would be to make discrimination between deserving works. Your
committee cannot undertake to read all new histories, and prepare
an index of works they consider good or bad, a matter which only
experts would be fit to pass upon, even supposing such a list de-
sirable; and they recognize the injustice of preferring one without ex-
amining all. For a temporary purpose, in view of the great unfair-
ness of the current school histories, when your committee was first
organized, certain school books were recommended to counteract a
great evil. We are happy to note a marked improvement in the
spirit of fairness displayed by school histories, and do not think it
will be necessary hereafter for your committee to specify school books
as especially deserving. Unless otherwise instructed, your commit-
tee expects to refrain in future from such recommendations.

A great misconception has become current of the aim and pur-
pose of the committee in supposing that it desires only historical

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works written from the Southern standpoint. Such works are useful
only as materials for the fnture historian, and useful, because they
exhibit the animus with which they were written. Works in vindica-
tion of the course of the South before and during the civil war, will
be invaluable in showing the causes which led to the war, and the
motives of those who engaged in it, but controversial literature is
not history, and is out of place in historical instruction.

The desire of your committee is to secure such histories as can
be read or taught in every part of the Union, with justice toward all
— histories tuat will put an end to prejudice and sectional feeling,
not perpetuate them; and histories designed as Southern histories
solely, will cease, so soon as broad, catholic and true historic spirit
prevails in current histories for schools and libraries — until that time
Southern teachers will not instruct Southern youth in a way to de-
stroy Southern self-respect and manhood.

A suggestion has recently been made by the Department of Wis-
consin of the Grand Army of the Republic, which is embodied in their
resolutions as follows:

" Whereas, The war between the North and South ended nearly
a third of a century ago — ended to the honor and glory of the best
government ever vouchsafed to mankind; and,

" Whereas, There has not yet been prepared for use in the pub-
lic schools of the United States chapters on that great war for a
school history that do exact justice to states, armies, battles, and lead-
ers, and are satisfactory to both North and South; and,

"Whereas, Such chapters in a school history are most desirable,
and would be of incalculable benefit to the country in proper in-
struction of the youth ; therefore, be it

" Resolved, That it is the belief of the Department of Wisconsin,
Grand Army of the Republic, that the surest, quickest, easiest and
best way to secure such chapters for a national school history is to
select for the work a commission of distinguished educators from the
ranks of the contending armies in the contest from 1861 to 1865.

" Resolved, That our representatives to the national encamp-
ment, which meets at Buflalo next August, be requested to present
this matter to that honorable body."

Your committee feels that it cannot too highly praise the broard
and liberal American spirit which pervades these resolutions. While
it might be premature for your honorable body to pass upon this
proposition, nevertheless your committee does not deem it inappro-
priate to present at this time a few suggestions with reference to
such a plan.

Your committee regards history as a form of literature, treating
of past events, akin to science, in that it endeavors to express with
accuracy and system the results of knowledge, but also akin to poetry,
in that it endeavors to reproduce the former thoughts and motives of

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men, and to represent the noble and great in a way which appeals to
the imagination as well a3 instructs the judgment. The publication
of the faces, without note ©r comment, robs history of its greatest
service in stimulatiug the patriotic emotions of the student, and
encouraging his to the emulation of great deeds.

History is not a mere product, and can no more be written by
commissions or committees than can scientific or dramatic composi-
tions. Such a body would be apt to produsa a colorless, compro-
mised work, which would represent the real convictions of no person
whatever, and lack the life-giving spirit which gives to history its
literary quality and makes it an inviting and elevating study.

The only reliance, after all, is upon the character of the writer
himself. If he is broad-minded, sympathetic, unprej adiced, fearless,
painstaking and devoted to the ascertainment of truth, according to
his gifts, he will write history. If he writes his book simply to sell,
he will, of coarse, make his views conform to those of the greatest
number of prospective purchasers. The would-be historian who sets
out to make a history which will conform to the views or win the
commendation of a committee, however patriotic or eminent, is
morally unfit to write history, or anything else which undertakes to
be true. The proper field for such a writer is romance, and he will
do well, if his so-called history es3ap33 an excess of the imaginative
quality. The motive of a nam who makes the result of his historical
study conform to the views of others than himself is most likely a
commercial one, for such work can hope for neither permanence nor
fame. The only views with which a historian is concerned are those
which are the conscientious result of his investigations, free from the
color of preconceived opinions.

Your committee, therefore, concludes a history gotten up by a
committee of educators representing the North and South respect-
ively wouli be a bJeached compromise; they think it best to rely on
that true historic talent which is now developing itself both at the
North and Sonth, to rise gradually above the prejudices of section,
and to take on that spirit of fairness and truth which will form the
essence of true Americanism, a spirit which will tend to consider the
good of coming generations of youth, in perpetuating American self-
respect and manhood, and that Anglo-Saxon spirit which would make
them retain a true love of liberty, regardless of consequences.

The fact that people at the North and South are not entirely
satisfied with the histories now used in the public schools is evidence
that the truth of history is asserting itself in hewing closer to the
facts than pronounced prejudice woald permit. It is expecting too
much in tne generation wnich took part in the greatest struggle of
modern times, to be removed entirely from the passions of the
period, but we are gradually approaching that result in the tone of
nistones written by Northern and Southern men. The time is near
when the painstaking, broad-minded, Catholic historian can write
a history free from prejudice and passion and permeated with the
true spirit of liberty-loving Americans.

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Your committee thinks the plan now being pursued in inviting
many writers into the field of history is better than that of selecting
one or more writers who might err, and yet receive the endorsement
of oar association, and tend to perpetuate partisanship, prejudice and
narrow bounds in a matter requiring the highest order of integrity
and broadmindedness. We believe a last verdict will bo rendered,
which, at the impartial tribunal of history will declare in the words
of our Commanding General : "No more exalted motive — no more
consecrated purpose, or holier conviction ever inspired a people than
actuated both sections on both sides of that contest; that American
selfrespect has been vindicated, American manhood made strong,
the American Union made permanent, and American freedom made
safer," by reason of that conflict.

While your committee adheres to the opinion previously ex-
pressed, and reiterated in this report, that this association does not
desire to appoint any one person to represent this organization, as
the sole exponent of its sentiments and opinions; but, on the contrary,
wish to invite the individual efforts of many writers, believing that
the field of history should be explored by many minds, yet your com-
mittee recognizes the importance of securing the services of some
competent comrade to collect historical records, and many of the fast-
fleeting incidents of the war, to arrange the same for the use of
future historians, and to give to them such publication as may be
proper. We, therefore, recommend that your committee be em-
powered to appoint a historical editor whose duty it shall be to col-
lect reliable historical data and edit the same for publication, subject
to the approval of your committee.

In this connection your com nittee reasserts with pleasure its
commendation of the Confederate Veteran, published in Nashville by
Comrade S. A. Cunningham, which is cordially accepted by all fair-
minded men as a faithful exponent of facts pertaining to the great
war.

Since the organization of this committee in 1892, three of its
members have "crossed over the river, and are resting in the shade of
the trees" with Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. John-
ston, Braxton Bragg, Hood, Frank Cheatham, Bedford Forrest, and
are now with the greater numbers of those who were our comrades in
1861 and 1865.

The first to go was the pure, heroic and spotless soldier, Edmund
Kirby Smith, of Tennessee, the best of the full generals of the Con-
federate Army.

The next to follow was Professor Alonzo Hill, of Alabama, a
typical private soldier, and belonging to that band of heroes who
filled the ranks of the most heroic army of modern times, and whose
valor placed the wreaths and stars on the collars of the general offi-
cers, and whose only reward was a conscientous discharge of patri-
otic duty well done.

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The next, and since our last reunion at Richmond, is Major
W. P. Campbell, of Arkansas, the amiable, resolute, loyal soldier,
whose advice and counsel we had learned to rely on. We tender
to his stricken household our sympathy, as a committee, and the
sympathy of all our comrades now assembled at this great reunion.

Respectfully submitted,

STEPHEN D. LEE, Chairman;
W. R. GARRETT,
CLEMENT A. EVANS,
GRAHAM DAVIS,
WINFIELD PETERS,
H. A. NEWMAN,
JOHN O. CASLER,
BASIL W. DUKE,
F. S. FERGUSON.

General Lee was frequently applauded during the reading of the
report, and was greeted at its conclusion with loud cheers.

General W. H. Jackson arose and said: I know that I am but
voicing the sentiments of all my comrades when I express the appre-
ciation we all have for that admirable report, which evidences so
much thought and care in its preparation, as given to us through its
honored chairman, General Stephen D. Lee, and I now move, with a
second, that it be received and the recommendations be adopted by
this body, and spread upon the minutes.

The Chair — It is moved and seconded that this able Report of
the Committee on History be received and spread upon the minutes
of your Association, as the sentiments of this Association which was
unanimously carried.

GENERAL GORDON'S DECLINATION.

General Gordon feeling that the old Veterans had showered suffi-
cient honors upon him and supposing they desired to honor others in
the Association, issued the following:

Atlanta, Ga., June 10th, 1897.
To My Confederate Comrades:

It was my proud privilege to announce officially a few days since
that a thousand Camps have been incorporated into the "United
Confederate Veterans,'' a glorious brotherhood organized for non-
partisan and noble ends. All these Camps will be represented, I
trust, in our annual Reunion at Nashville. This remarkable growth
of our organization must be to you a source of sincere pride and
pleasure. It will be welcome news to brave and magnanimous men
in every section of our country, who comprehend its philanthropic
and patriotic aims. To me it is a source of profound gratification

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that our brotherhood has reached its present vast proportions during
the years in which you have so steadfastly and with such unparalleled
unanimity honored me with the position of Commander-in-Chief.
This growth is the more remarkable because it has occurred in an or-
ganization which has no partisan purpose to stimulate its efforts, and
no cohesion of sectional passion or selfish aims to bind it together.
While eliminating from its life all narrow prejudices that tend to
dwarf its manhood, and while inspired by a sentiment most helpful
to the harmony of the sections and the well-being of the Republic,
this representative body of ex-Confederate soldiers is resolved to
guard through the potent agency of impartial history, the self-
respect of our people and to conserve the manhood of Southern
youth by transmitting, not the passions, but the hallowed memories
of a marvellously heroic struggle.

Such a success could never have been attained except by the
earnest co-operation of the able Commanders of Departments and
Divisions, and of their co-workers in the Camps. But these dis-
tinguished officers and the noble men commanded by them, will unite
with me in according to General George Moorman, my chief of staff,
the largest share of honor in the achievement of this great result. It
is but simple justice to this superb staff officer to say that in all these
years of upbuilding, of anxiety, and of labor, often amidst difficulties
and discouragements of the gravest character, he has given his time,
his thought, his energies and his talents, ungrudgingly and without
a dollar of compensation to the arduous task imposed upon him by
the duties of his office; and no amount of work for the welfare of the
organization has been too onerous or exacting for him to cheerfully
and efficiently perform.

In announcing this gratifying success I wish to make my most
grateful acknowledgements to my comrades of every rank, in every
State. While it has been one of the chief pleasures, as well as
highest honors, of my life, to serve in the station to which your par-
tiality has so repeatedly called me, and while I shall ever cherish the
numberless evidences of your confidence, yet I must ask you to pre-
pare for the selection at Nashville of some one else as your Com-
mander. You are my witnesses that I have repeatedly in the past
sought to surrender this high and responsible position ; and I have
yielded my purpose only at your earnest solicitations. It must be ap-
parent to you now that whether the exigencies supposed to exist in
the past were real or fancied, there certainly no longer exists any
sufficient reason for asking my continuance in that high office. For-
tunately for the well-being of our Association, there is no difficulty in
selecting from the many illustrious ex-soldiers of the Southern army
a commander, whose ability and devotion will ensure the continued
growth and harmony of the United Confederate Veterans.

J. B. GORDON,
Commander-in-Chief United Confederate Yeterans.

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General Gordon then proceeded bo carry the foregoing into
effect, and as per the announcement yesterday, that he would return
the commission with which he had been honored by the Veterans
unanimously for eight years, after the reading of the report on
History, he called Lieutenant General S. D. Lee to the chair.

NEVER-TO-BE FORGOTTEN SCENE.

General Gordon then arose to speak. The tenor of his words
was quickly caught by his hearers. He was about to offer his res-
ignation as Commander of the United Confederate Veterans.

He had spoken only a few words before it was apparent that he
would not be allowed to take the step.

He began. "Comrades permit me in this hour, and with brief
words to give notice that I shall return to you the commission with
which you have honored me all these years. — "

The rest of his remarks were lost in the reception of his words.

With one accord the entire gathering rose to its feet and ex-
claimed. "No, no, no. Never, never, never."

Such a scene has seldom, if ever been witnessed in any country
or in any age.

This continued for some time. Men shouted, no, no, never,
never, until they were hoarse, and waived their banners and hats
and handkerchiefs, others shed tears at the idea of such an action.
No man ever received such an indorsement for position as did Gen.
Gordon for the leadership of the Confederate organization. While
the dissenting voices were still loudly pronouncing against such a
course of action, the band struck up "Dixie," and quietude and
order entirely departed from the convention hall. The scene-baffled
description so high did enthusiasm run.

After order had been somewhat restored Gen. Gordon at-
tempted to continue. "At least, my comrades, you will permit me
to say, that with your consent it would have been a privilege to me
to take my place by the side of those untitled heroes who bore the
battle's brunt in the bloody work of war. It is no condescension
for even a crowned head to stand beside a Southern private soldier,
and it is my happiest recollection that I enlisted as one."

The cries of no, no, never, never, continued without intermis-
sion, at last Gen. Gordon's voice again arose above the din ap-
pealingly. My comrades, I ask that you will restore order and
do me the justice to hear what I have to say. Cries of no, never,
again arose all over the tabernacle, mingled with we will hear you,
but will not listen to your resignation, and to his urgent appeals
order was finally restored. He then continued his address as
follows:

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General Gordon's Farewell.

"Mr. President and Comrades — Permit me with few words to re-
turn the commission with which you have honored me for eight
years, and by unanimous vote. "Within the next few hours you will
elect my successor. When this duty is performed by you I shall gladly
take my place by those untitled heroes wbo so grandly bore the bat-
tle's brunt in the stern work of war. Such a step voluntarily taken
ought not to be considered a strange condescention by any man.
To me it is a privilege. It was as a private that I enlisted as a
soldier on the first indication of approaching war. It is true that
the partiality of my comrades, which has followed me from that
hour to this, did not permit me to serve in that honorable and self-
sacrificing position. But, Mr. President, through all the vicissi-
tudes of war, amidst its lights and its shadows, its glories and its
gloom, I never lost sight for one hour of my obligations to the
private soldiers. From first to last, in all those years of alternate
victory and defeat, of hope and despair, my heart was ever paying
its spontaneous tributes to the matchless fortitude of that intrepid
band, who, shoeless, half clad and hungry, marched on foot, suffered
on picket and bravely defied the battle's carnage from the begin-
ning to the end of that struggle without one murmur of discontent.
Sir, if I had the power I would erect to the private soldier the most
splendid memorial that gratitude could suggest, genius could plan
or money build, but I am too poor for that. Or if I possessed the
needed gift of speech I would leave upon record a tribute worthy of
them, and such as my own convictions and emotions prompt; but my
words are too feeble for that. There is one thing, however, which
I can do. I can lay at their feet the commissions which they won
for me in war and the honors with which they have crowned my
life in peace. I can promptly, as I shall proudly, take my place in
their now thin and rapidly dissolving ranks.

"Mr. President, in these closing hours of my long service as
Commanding General I must ask the convention's indulgence for a
brief review of that official relation and possibly for some sugges-
tions as to the future.

"On the 10th day of June, 1889, eight years ago, while serving as
Governor of my native State, I received from New Orleans the
wholly unexpected announcement of my election as commander-in-
chief of the newly qrganized United Confederate Veterans. This
new communion of ex- soldiers began its somewhat unpromising
career with the modest number of but ten organizations, united for
peaceful and noble ends. To-day it presents the proud array of
more than a thousand camps answering the roll call and reflecting
merited honors upon the different commanders, and especially
upon our able Adjutant General. In the next few hours I shall
turn over to my successor this army of more than a thousand or-
ganizations rapidly advancing toward the second thousand.

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"I said, Mr. President, that I would turn over an army. It is
an army of ex-soldiers, of ex- Confederate soldiers, of ex-fighting
Confederate soldiers, at whose prowess and endurance enlightened
Christendom stood in breathless amazement. It is an army stilL
Mr. President, but an army for the bloody work of war no longer.
Its banners no longer bear the flaming insignia of battle. Its
weapons no longer flash defiance to the foe nor deal death to op-
posing tranks. Its weapons are now the pen without malice, the
tongue without aspersion, and history without misrepresentation.
Its aims are peaceful, philanthropic and broadly patriotic. Its
sentiment is lofty, generous and just. Its mission is to relieve the
suffering of the living, cherish the memory of the dead, and to
shield from reproach the fair name of all. This now mighty or-
ganization, while insisting upon complete historical justice to the
South, will scorn to do less than complete justice to the North.
Proud of the South's chivalry in defending the rights of the States,
they honor the heroism of the North in defending the perpetuity of
the Union. Having committed the South's cause to the arbitra-
ment of battle, they loyally and manfully stand by that tribunal's
verdict. Fighting and suffering for their homes and rights as men
have rarely fought and suffered in the world's history; exhibiting
on a hundred fields and in a thousand emergencies a heroism never
excelled; yielding from utter exhaustion and only when their
prostrate section was bleeding at every pore; failing after the most
desperate defensive struggle in human annals to establish their
cherished Confederacy, these high-souled sons of the South offer
this record of devotion as the noblest pledge of their fealty to
freedom and of their readiness to defend the republic of the
fathers.

"My comrades of the United Confederate Veterans, if this brief
summary fairly represents your sentiments and your aims, then my
cup of joy is full indeed. I cannot doubt, I do not doubt, that I
have caught and correctly voiced the impulses and hopes of this
most representative body of Southern manhood. In the first
address issued by me as your commander I sought to embody your
sentiments as I did my own. Let me read a few sentences from
that address. After reciting the objects of the United Confederate
Veterans as declared by your constitution, I said.

" 'No misjudgments can defeat your peaceful purposes for the
future. Your aspirations have been lifted by the mere force and
urgency of surrounding conditions to a plane far above the paltry
considerations of partisan triumphs. The honor of the American
republic; the just powers of the Federal Government; the equal
rights of the States; the integrity of the constitutional union; the
sanctions of law and the enforcement of order, have no class of de-
fenders more true and devoted than the ex-soldiers of the South
and their worthy descendants. But you realize the great truth that
a people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifi.es are
a people without history.

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" 'To cherish such memories and recall such a past, whether crowned
with success or consecrated in defeat, is to idealize principle and
strengthen character, intensify love of country and convert defeat and
disaster into pillars of support for future manhood and noble woman-
hood. "Whether the Southern people under tbeir changed conditions
may ever hope to witness another civilization which shall equal that
which began with their George Washington and ended with their
Lee, it is certainly true that devotion to their glorious past is not
only the surest guaranty of future progress — the holiest bond of
unity, but is also the strongest claim they can present to the confi-
dence and respect of the other sections of the union.'

" Speaking then of your organization, I said:

" It is political in no sense except so far as the word " political "
is a synonym of the word "patriotic." It is a brotherhood over
which the genius of philanthropy and patrotism, of truth and justice
will preside. Of philanthropy because it will succor the disabled,
help the needy, strengthen the weak and cheer the disconsolate; of
patriotism, because it will cherish the past glories of the dead Con-
federacy, and transmute them into inspirations for future services to
the living republic; of truth, because it will seek to gather and pre-
serve unimpeachable facts as witnesses for history; of justice, because
it will cultivate national as well as Southern fraternity, and will con-
demn narrow-mindedness and prejudice and passion, and cultivate
that broader, higher, nobler sentiment which would write on the
grave of every soldier who fell on either side:

" 'Here lies an American hero, a martyr to the right as his con-
science conceived it.' "

"My comrades, how can I doubt your sympathy and approval,
when upon this analysis of your creed you have supported me for so
great a period and with such unparalleled unanimity? Guided by my
own convictions of duty to you and to our whole country, I have not
hesitated to proclaim on all proper occasions in public and private,
on the political hustings and the floor of the Senate, at the North and
the South and among the English-speaking people beyond the At-
lantic—everywhere, I repeat, I have proclaimed that the knight-hood
won by the Confederate soldier in war would never be lost or tar-
nished in peace by narrow bigotry or any lack of a noble mag-
nanimity.

"Mr. President, as long as the South's flag could be held aloft in
the smoke and storm of battle, no man followed it I think more
loyally or lovingly than myself, and the judge of all hearts is my wit-
ness that 1 would freely have given for its triumph the last drop of
blood in these veins. No man is more loyal now to the hallowed
memories than are embalmed with it, but when that flag went down
at Appomattox, when the fate of war made it certain that this country
was to remain one, with one flag and oue destiny, I turned my
thoughts and labors to the upbuilding of that one country which was
bequeathed to all the sections of the fathers. From the morning at

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Appomattox to this hour in Nashville it has been my highest political
ambition to be an humble instrument in the restoration of fraternity
and unity to the once divided and embittered sections, upon a basis
consistent with the honor and manhood of all.

"I trust, my comrades, that you will regard these personal allu-
sions as at least pardonable, although they may not be essential to a
clear understanding of my stewardship. You will also permit me to
recall in this connection the iDdisputable fact that for thirty years
Southern leaders have stood in the forefront of the country's peace-
makers. It was Ben Hill, of Georgia, who, in that masterful defense
of his people on the floor of Congress, called the nation to witness
that the 'South's sons were in their father's house and there to stay.' It
was my long cherished friend, Mississippi's illustrious son, the match-
less Lamar, who uttered in that same hall the inspired words, 'my
countrymen know each other and you will love each other.' These
noble words from a Southern leader caught the nation's ear and
thrilled the nation's heart. It was Henry W. Grady who, in the very
precinct of Plymouth Eock and in sight of Bunker Hill, proclaimed
that evangel of peace that rang in every home throughout the land.
And, Mr. President and comrades, the proudest hour in my own pub-
lic life was that in which I was able to pledge to the disturbed com-
munities of the North, the loyal hearts and strong aims of the South
for the enforcement of law and order. It was in that dreadful hour
when jour sister city of the West was threatened with riot, torch and
blood; when mob violence ruled in her streets; when laws were
trampled and civil authority defied; when flames were spreading
amidst her dwellings; when panic and dismay filled Chicago's homes,
and when no man could predict the next scene in the drama — it was
in that hour and on the floor of the S(nate that I was able to pledge
Southern sympathy and aid and to declare that no men in this union
were more loyal to law and to public liberty as conserved by law;
none more ready to defend the authority of the general government,
its honor, its flag and its freedom, than the heroic remnants of those
immortal armies which followed Lee and Jackson, the Johnstons,
Beauregard. Bragg and Hood, or Jeb Stuart and Bedford Forrest,
till the Confederacy fell before the resistless storm.

"My comrades, the echoes cane and came quickly from all over
the land; and no sweeter solace could come to my spiiit than that
which was brought by the responses from North and South alike.

"In conclusion, my comrades, let me hope that the wise conserva-
tism, the spiiit of magnanimity which is always the brightest gem in
the crown of courage, will mark your career in the future as they
have in the past. On another memorable occasion when speaking as
a Southern representative, I said, in substance, let us all hope that
the day is not far distant when every section will recognize the
monumental truth that both sides fought under written constitutions
guaranteeing the same monuments of liberty; that every drop of
blood shed was the price freely paid by the soldier for his inherited
beliefs and cherished convictions; that every uniform worn by the

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brave — whether its color was blue or gray — every sheet of flame from
the ranks and rifles of both; every cannon shot that shook Cbicka-
mauga's bills and thundered around the heights of Gettysburg; every
patriotic prayer or sigh wafted heavenward from the North or South;
every throb of anguish in patriotic woman's heart; every burnirg tear
on woman's cheek; every tender ministration by her loving hands at
the dying soldier's side — all, all were contributions for the upbuild-
ing of American manhood; for the future defense of American free-
dom."

General Gordon must have been a proud man throughout his
speech. At every pause he received such salvos of applause as
shook the great building and at the end he was given such an ovation
as has seldom been accorded any man.

Whenever he broached the subject of his retirement, thousands
of voices shouted "no, no," and "never, never, never."

The moment Gtneial Gordon ceased to speak General Lee, the
presiding cfficer, rapped sharply for order, when Dr. J. B. Cowan of
Tullaboma, Tenn., and General Joseph Wheeler of Alabama, both
arose simultaneously to nominate General Gordon, while Dr. Cowan,
who was on the platfoi m was moving forward to the speaker's stand to
make the nominating speech, saving: Mr. President, I desire to
place the name of General Gordon in nomination.

General Joe Wheekr arose from his place with the Alabama
delegation and moved that the rules be suspended and the U. C.
V.'s superb commander be re-elected by acclamation. He stated
that this was specially requested by the District of Columbia Camp,
comprising 250 Veterans, and including soldiers from every South-
ern State, and expressed the wishes and sentiments of the entire
South.

By this time Dr. Cowan had reached the speakers stand and
moved that the rules be suspended, and that Gen. Joseph Wheeler
be invited to the stand and requested to nominate Gen. Gordon for
re-election.

The motion unanimously prevailed smidst the wildest enthu-
siasm, and Gen. Wheeler came to the platform. It was plainly a
pleasant duty this old hero was about to perform. His step was
light and springy and his eyes sparkled with enthusiasm. With
little assistance he sprang over the press tables onto the platform.

General Gordon said, "Joe is my superior, but I am a taller, big-
ger man than he is."

General Wheeler bowed and enjoyed this pleasantly and with
Dr. Cowan still standing by his side said:

General Wheeler Speaks,

"Fellow Soldiers — There could be no prouder moment in my
life than this. I am proud to join with you and do my part toward
the renomination of Gen. John B. Gordon as our Commander-in-
Chief. There could not be a happier day in any of our lives than

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this when we meet together to thank our superb commander for
what he has done for the Confederate soldier and for the South.
He took the command of us eight years ago when there were only
ten camps in the organization, and under his able administration we
have grown until now there are more than a thousand camps.

In time to come the Confederate soldier will be recognized the
world over as the purest type of chivalry; his deeds in war and his
accomplishments in peace will be a matter of history of which
American posterity will justly feel proud.

Records in time will tell of the heroism of Confederate soldiers,
which is the most superb in all history.

It is to perpetuate the history of these soldiers that this Asso-
ciation was formed.

It is a proud hour of the Camp of the District of Columbia,
which I represent, to have the privilege through me of nominating
General Gordon.

I now move that General Gordon be renominated by acclama-
tion.

General Wheeler was frequently interrupted by applause and
the cheering at the end was tremendous.

UNANIMOUSLY RE-ELECTED.

Amidst the wildest enthusiasm, General Lee said he understood
that the rules had been suspended to nominate General Gordon by
acclamation, that this had been done, and that General Gordon was
in fact already elected, and he therefore had nothing else to do but
to declare General Gordon unanimously re-elected Commander-in-
Chief, that there was only one Gordon. Another great outburst
greeted this announcement. General Gordon then said : My comrades
there is nothing left me as a soldier, but to bow to your will, and
God being my helper I shall serve you to the best of my ability .

Col. J. G. Gilmore, of New Orleans, was recognized, and asked
if he would be allowed to say a few words on behalf of tbe Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy. General Gordon said it was out of order,
but that he felt like breaking the rules in this instance, as he did
not tbink we could do enough for the noble women of the South,
but that the report of the Confederate Memorial Committee was
next in order.

"Yes, break it; break it," shouted a thousand voices, and Mr.
Gilmore was allowed to proceed.

He said that in behalf of the ladies he wished to say that they
had been doing their part in making Confederate history. They
had not written it with a pen, but were inscribing it upon the
tablets of the memories of the rising generations. Mr. Gilmore said
he hoped the efforts of the Confederate girls and women would re-
ceive some recognition from the association before it adjourned.

General Chipley, President The Confederate Memorial Associa-
tion, stood waiting to present his report.

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Col. Hickman moved tbat it be referred to the Committee on
Kesolutions, and reported on this evening.

General Ferguson, of Alabama, made the point of order, that
the body was not properly organized. General Gordon ruled the
point was well taken.

General Gordon then announced that the Committee on Creden-
tials would report, which report was then read by Col. J. Colton
Lynes, of Atlanta Camp No. 159, Secretary of the Committee, as
follows :

Nashville, June 23, 1897.

The committee on credentials respectfully report that they have
examined the credentials submitted to them, and they find that
delegates have been accredited from 1031 Camps as follows, to-wit:
Total Camps, 1031. Total delegates, 2061.

The committee therefore respectfully recommend that the
names heretofore furnished to the Adjutant General be declared
delegates to this Convention, with power to fill any vacancies in
their numbers on account of absence, or otherwise from other mem-
bers of their respective Camps here present, or to cast the vote of
their respective Camps.

[Signed.] L. M. DAVIS, South Carolina.
JNO. J. WILLIAMS, Virginia.
W. H. HUTCHINSON, Florida.
A. B. WILLIAMS, North Carolina.
THEO. NOEL, Illinois.
ALBERT ESTOPINAL, Louisiana.
W. J. WATTS, Indian Territory.
ROBERT McCULLOCH, Missouri.
J. J. LEESON, Socorro, New Mexico.
T. F. LINDB, Illinois; 8 Camps.
J. F. HALL, Oklahoma.
H. B. LITTLEPAGE, District of Columbia.
JAMES P. COFFIN, Arkansas.
S. B WATTS, Mississippi.
I. KUYKENDALL, West Virginia.
E. S. JUDGE, Maryland.
J. A. TROUSDALE, Tennessee.
LEELAND HATHAWAY, Kentucky.

L. P. THOMAS, Chairman.

J. COLTON LYNES, Secretary.

Col. John P. Hickman of Tennessee, moved that the report of
the Committee on Credentials be adopted and the committee dis-
charged, which was unanimously carried.

The District of Columbia Camp, No. 171, of Washington, D. C,
requested that the name of Sam E. Lewis be substituted on His-
torical Committee in place of W. Q. Lowd, which the Chair directed to
be done.

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The Chair announced that the Committee on Eesolutions would
meet in the gallery on the left of the stand upstairs.

General Gordon called General Wm. H. Jackson of Tennessee,
to the chair.

The Chair announced that the reading of the report of the
President of the Confederate Memorial Association was next in
order. Gen. W. D. Cbipley of Florida, the President, was recognized
and read as follows:

Nashville, Tenn., June 22, 1897.

To the United Confederate Veterans, in Seventh Annual Reunion As-
sembled:

Comrades — It becomes my duty as President of the Board to sub-
mit the first annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Confed-
erate Memorial Association. In pursuance of the authority delegated
by your body at the Kichmond Reunion, a charter was obtained and
the Confederate Memorial Association was organized at Lookout
Mountain, Tenn., September 2, of last year. At that meeting I was
elected President and Gen. Clement A. Evans, Vice President, and
the Fourth National Bank of Nashville, Treasurer. An Executive
Committee was appointed, as provided by the charter, consisting of
Gen. W. H. Jackson of Tennessee, Chairman; Gen. L. S. Ross of
Texas, Gen. Robert White of West Virginia, Gen. Jos. B. Briggs of
Kentucky; the President of the Board of Trustees being ex-officio a
member of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee
met and organized at Nashville, Tenn., on October 10, 1896, and
elected John C. Underwood, of Kentucky, Superintendent and Secre-
tary of the Association. Superintendent Underwood entered upon bis
duties with enthusiasm and energy, but was confronted with many
difficulties directly connected with the affairs of the Association and
his new work was seriously handicapped by the all-absorbing politi-
cal situation.

Superintendent Underwood has succeeded in placing in the hands
of the Fourth National Bank as Treasurer of the Association from
old subscriptions the sum of $9,410.57. He has secured new contri-
butions of $10,500, and has organized plans approved by the Execu-
tive Committee from which success is confidently expected.

The former administration of the affairs of the Association
variously estimated the subscriptions at from $15,000 to $16,000, but
an effort to cash the subscriptions and place the money in bank de-
veloped peveral duplications of the reported contributions, amount-
ing to about $1,000. Contributions amounting to about $4,000 are
withheld, and I would recommend that your body adopt a resolution,
requesting that all moneys held for the Confederate Memorial Asso-
ciation be paid on drafts of the Superintendent and Secretary,
countersigned by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, the same
being made payable to the Fourth National Bank of Nashville, Tenn.,
the bonded Treasurer of the Association.

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The thanks of your body are due the Tennessee Centennial Asso-
ciation for the liberal and unconditional contribution of one-third of
the net proceeds of revenue to be derived from admissions on June
22, 23, 24, and to Superintendent Underwood for having provided a
display of fireworks on the nights of the same days for the benefit of
the C. M. A. All of these several occasions, the Exposition in the
day and the fireworks at night, should be generally and liberally
patronized by theVeterans and their friends in the interest of the cause.

I desire to assure my comrades that much and very valuable pre-
liminary work has been accomplished, and while it would not be
beneficial to the work now in hand or interesting to your body to
enter upon the details, I feel warranted in repeating the assurance
that your nest Reunion will witness the consummation of the work
entrusted to the Board of Trustees of your Memorial Association;
and I desire to say further that this assurance is made after a full
and frank conference with other members of the Executive Commit-
mittee and Superintendent Underwood who have had direct charge of
the work and who endorse my assurance.

The expenses of the work conducted under the present organiza-
tion, like that of our predecessors, have been borne by Comrade C.
B; Rouss, whose liberality has rendered it, unnecessary for the Board
to use any contributions, a policy that will continue to govern the
Executive Committee.

It is the avowed purpose and agreement of Mr. Rouss not to take
the amount advanced for expenses from the $100,000 which he has
agreed to turn over to the Association, whenever the Association has
raised a similar amount.

To set at rest many reports in relation to the location of the
fire-proof Memorial Building which it is designed to erect, I will
state that the Board of Trustees have this matter entirely in their
charge, as provided in the charter, comrade Rouss assuring the
Board that it will be left entirely to their judgment and decision.
It is the understanding of the Board that until the full amount has
been provided that no decision will be made, and up to this time no
discussion relative to the location has been had by the Board. It is
well known to every Veteran and to every sympathizer that valuable
relics, literature and illustrations of the Southern Cause are scat-
tered throughout the South. Many of these are in insecure build-
ings, and while it is true that many of them are under the charge
of the women of the South, who by their devotion to their care, but
continue to illustrate and emphasize their patriotism during the
war, yet, when the generation now passing away shall have been re-
moved by the inevitable operation of time, it is but a reasonable ap -
prehension that many of these things which we should preserve in
the interest of true history will be ultimately lost. The importance,
therefore, of preserving in a fire proof building with proper endow-
ment the things which will tend to perpetuate the history of the
Southern Cause must necessarily impress every Veteran and every
sympathizer.

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I would respectfully suggest that the United Confederate
Veterans in their Seventh Annual Reunion call upon every Camp of
thirty members and less, to pledge not less than $5; all Camps of
more than thirty and less than fifty members $10; all Camps with
more than fifty and less than one hundred members $15; and all
Camps of more than one hundred members $25. With this assist-
ance from the Camps and the realization of the plans now in opera-
tion, your next Reunion will witness the consumation of the im-
portant work entrusted to your Board of Trustees, and we believe
that at your next Reunion you will be called upon to fix a time for
the laying of the corner stone of a Memorial Building, in which
will be gathered and preserved the archives of our Southern Cause,
an established center to which patriotic thought will turn long after
our persona] reunions have ceased.

The Board of Trustees under the present incorporation were:

*W. D. Chipley, President, Pensacola, Fla.

C. A. Evans, Vice President, Atlanta, Ga.

W. H. Jackson, Chairman Executive Committee, Nashville,
Tenn.

J. B. Briggs, Russellville, Ky.
*J. A. Chalaron, New Orleans, La.
*Robt. White, Wheeling, W. Va.
*D. M. Hailey, Krebs, I. T.

John M.Hickey, Washington City, D. C.
*A. G. Dickinson, Hotel Marlbrough, New York City, N. Y.

Wm. P. Campbell, Little Rock, Ark.
*A. E. Asbury, Higginsville, Mo.
*L. S. Ross, Waco, Texas.

John B. Carey, Richmond, Va.

Geo. D. Johnston, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
*J. R. Mcintosh, Meridian, Miss.

J. A. Casler, Oklahoma, Okla.
*B. M. Teague, Aiken, S. C.
*Thos. S. Kenan, Raleigh, N. C.

John Gill, Baltimore, Md.

Terms of those whose names are marked with star expire in
1900, others expire in 1898.

The death of Col. Wm. P. Campbell, of Arkansas, is announced,
and the resignations of Col. A. E. Asbury, of Missouri, Col. J. R.
Mcintosh, of Mississippi, and Gen. John Gill, of Maryland, have
been received. Under the charter the Divisions of the respective
States are required to fill these vacancies within one year at their
next Reunion or Convention.

Respectfully submitted by order of the Board,

W. D. CHIPLEY, President.

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The Chair— (Gen. Jackson in the Chair). My comrades, the
report of the Board of Trustees is now before you, and it has been
moved and seconded that the report be received and its recommen-
dations be adopted.

General J. A. Chalaron, of Louisiana, said: On the part of
Louisiana, which State I represent, on the Board and before that
report is adopted, I want it to be known that I voted against the
report, which protest I had put on the minutes. I merely want
that understood.

Before the adoption of the report there was considerable dis-
cussion of it. Col. J. B. Richardson, of New Orleans, said that the
association was an illegal one and that the charter, according to
legal authority, was not according to the law of the State of Mis-
sissippi in which it was granted. He protested against the adop-
tion of the report. He said Louisiana had endorsed Mr. Chalaron 's
action. He said that Mr. Rouss requires the Confederates to give
$100,000 before he gives a cent. This was not a business proposi-
tion. He insisted that the report should be defeated.

A delegate from Alabama thought that the plans of the Board
were practicable and considered them favorably.

General W. H. Jackson took the floor and said that the charter
had been drawn up under the inspection of criterions of law and it
was all right. He expressed the opinion that if any obstructions
were placed in the way the Battle Abbey never would be built. He
said that Mr. Rouss had established a fund from which the ex-
penses of the board were derived. Gen. Jackson remarked that the
offer of Mr. Rouss had been termed an advertising scheme, and he
expressed a very favorable opinion of all such schemes that prom-
ised such a liberal contribution to the perpetuation of Confederate
valor. He said that the Board of Trustees had no axe to grind, but
was performing a patriotic duty. He made a strong defense of the
action of the Board and the work they had done.

General Chalaron, of Louisiana, was then recognized and spoke
from the rostrum. He said the organization was an illegal one, for
which statement he had the best legal authority to sustain him.
That one of his objections and the principal one was that the board
was illegally organized, and any action taken by the board was
illegal. That the people of Louisiana wanted to know that the
money they subscribed was not frittered away. He said that the
charter provided for the appointment on the Board of Trustees of a
representative of subscribers, but Mr. Rouss who had not subscribed
a dollar had a representative on the board, and this he insisted was
illegal.

General Micajah Wood, of Virginia, said that as the represen-
tative of that State he moved that all petty barriers to the Battle
Abbey be swept aside and the work continued with a Rebel yell.
(The yell was vociferously given by the convention). Gen. Wood
spoke very commendably of the Louisianians and heartily indorsed
the report of the board.

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General Robert White, of West Virginia, asked the convention
if it wanted the Battle Abbey. "If you do," said he, "vote for the
adoption of the committee's report. If not, dissolve the committee."
He explained that the charter for the Memorial Association had
been taken out in Mississippi because that was the home of Jeffer-
son Davis. "Let us sweep all technicalities to the four winds of the
earth," he said. He then went into the enumeration of what Mr.
Rouss had already done to perpetuate the memory of the soldiers
of the South. He spoke at some length upon the subject and said:
"God bless the man; he has been our mainstay."

There were loud cries for the question, but before it could be
put comrade John J. Williams, of Winchester, Va., arose as the com-
mander of Turner Ashby's Camp and spoke in defense of Mr. Rouss,
announcing that his purposes were undeniably good and his word
was as good as his bond.

Col. David Zabel, of Louisiana, said that he would stand by
Virginia and Charles Broadway Rou3s. He hoped there would be
no more discord about the memorial building.

Col. R. H. Cunningham, of Kentucky, asked the adoption of the
report and upon a motion it was unanimously adopted.

Gen. Jackson, Chief Marshal of the parade, asked that all
division commanders send in the addresses to Col. John P. Hickman,
so that he might confer with them regarding any details of that event.

Capt. J. B. O'Bryan made an announcement of the concert in
the evening, and asked all delegations to select their speakers for
the Confederate Jubilee.

The meeting, upon a motion by Col. John P. Hickman, adjourned
till 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Great Mass of Business Transacted— Atlanta Selected as the Next

Place of Meeting.

The afternoon session was called to order by Gen. Gordon at
3:15 o'clock, and opened with a prayer by Rev. R. Lin Cave, of
Nashville.

Gen. Fergason, of Alabama, said: Mr. President, I will present to
this convention a relic in the form of a gavel made from timber of the
celebrated Confederate steamer, "Star of the West." It has been made
by Thomas Y. Cain, a private soldier, and it is my pleasure to present
this to the convention and ask its use during the proceedings.

General Gordon^ Gentlemen of the Convention, this gavel is pre-
sented by a private of Camp Hardee of Birmingham, Ala. I know
that this Convention will proudly accept it. The historical interest
associated with it and the fact that it comes to you from the hands of

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one who handled the musket and wore the gray in our war but adds
to its interest to you, I am sure. And now I present the question :
Will you accept this gavel with the thanks of the Convention ? All
in favor will say aye. And it will be recorded that the Secretary is to
make proper recognition of it.

The Chair suggested that the Committee on Kesolutions be per-
mitted to report. A partial report was accordingly made in writing
as follows, by its chairman, Col. John W. A. Sanford, of Alabama:

Mr. President — The committee appointed to consider resolutions,
instructs its chairman to make the following report, as shown and ex-
plained by the accompanying resolutions, offered by various members
of the Convention and the endorsement of the committee upon each
resolution. JOHN W. A. SANFORD, Chairman.

The first resolution was as follows ;

" Resolved, that the organization known now as the United Con-
federate Veterans be changed to Confederate Survivors' Association."

The committee advise that the change be not made.

This resolution was brought about by the notice of change de-
sired to be made in the Constitution and which had been sent out to
all the Camps in accordance with the requirements of the Constitu-
tion ninety days before the assembling of the meeting, following is
the notice referred to:

To alter article 1 of the Constitution to read, "Confederate Sur-
vivors' Association," as per following memorial :

Camp 425, U. C. V., of Augusta, Georgia, petitions you to change
the name of this organization from United Confederate Veterans to
the " Confederate Survivors' Association," so that hereafter instead of
U. C. V., it will be C. S. A., Camp No. 1, Camp No. 2, and so on.

We are aware of the reasons which originally led to the adoption
of the U. C. Vs. At that time there was no general organization, and
as most of the local societies were called Confederate Survivors' Asso-
ciation, the general organization was termed United Confederate
Veterans to prevent confusion.

But the original reasons have now ceased to exist. The local or-
ganization have now come into the general organization, and the
general organization should henceforth be known as the C. S. A.

The U. C. V., while a useful term to meet a temporary emer-
gency, has no history and no precious memories of the past. It was
never imprinted on the Confederate soldier's belt-plate, nor blazed
upon his button. If our dead comrades were to come to life they
would fail to recognize our present insignia. They would say:
What does the U. C. V. mean ? We know it not.

But change the name to the C. S. A. and the living and the
dead alike can greet it with a fond, affectionate salutation. It
stands for Confederate Survivors' Association. The word Associa-
tion means a band of friends; the word Confederate speaks glori-
ously for itself; the word Survivor points reverently to the good
God who shielded our heads in the day of battle and has mercifully
prolonged our lives to the present hour,

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C S. A. stands also for the Confederate States of America, and
happy would this people be if the wise restraints of the Confederate
Constitution were of force now throughout the length and breadth
of the land.

Brothers in Arms ! we are not long here. For the time still
left us, when we meet to renew the recollections of the days of our
youth and glory, let us meet under the beloved, the illustrious
name of the C. S. A.

Comrade Salem Dutcher of Georgia, who belonged to the
Augusta camp, which had offered the memorial and the author of
it, was recognized. He said that the men of the camp wanted to
die, as they had fought in the C. S. A. The convention heartily ap-
plauded. He went on to say that it was the desire to perpetuate
the historic initials. His words were well received.

Comrade P. J. Trezevant of Louisiana, seconded a motion to accept
the committee's report. He said that there was danger in a change of
name. The organization, he said, was not one of survivors of the
Confederacy but of the veterans of the war. The change would
entail much expense which the association was not in a position to
stand. He spoke for Camp No. 1, from which tbe telegram had
been sent notifying General Gordon of his first selection as Com-
mander-in-Chief.

A delegate from Texas endorsed his words.

Judge John M. Taylor of Tennessee, spoke in favor of laying
the recommendations of tbe committee on the table. He said: "Let
us preserve our recollections of the Confederate States of America
and Confederate soldiers' association. Let us not forget our fallen
braves."

His speech was strong and he made a decided hit by holding
up an old buckle, a relic of the war.

Dr. Stout of Dallas, Texas, was against any change of name.
He thought that the name was of little moment, provided the or-
ganization remained intact, and he thought it would create con-
fusion.

" Let it remain as it is," said he, " we want simplicity."

FAVOR A CHANGE.

Captain Carnesworth of Alabama, said it made no difference
what the name was; the letters "C. S. A." were engraved on the
hearts of the Confederate soldiers of the South and he favored the
change. Captain Carnesworth's speech was a powerful one and
was loudly applauded.

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General Evans of Georgia, was recognized. He said he would
briefly give his reasons for desiring to return to the old C. S. A. In
the first place, it brought memories that could never be forgotten
by any Southerner; they wore the old letters that were engraven in
indelible letters on every Southern heart. General Evans spoke
eloquently and at considerable length, and his effort won frequent
and tumultuous applause.

The chaplain, Dr. Jones, moved to amend the resolution by
specifying that the change of name should not take effect for twelve
months, but General Gordon ruled this out of order. Dr. Jones then
said he would support the original motion.

General Chalaron of Louisiana, opposed the change. He said if
any one State had a right to speak in this matter Louisiana was that
State. It was Louisiana that had started the organization of the
United Confederate Veterans. The organization was cradled in
Louisiana and New Orleans. General Chalaron made a strong ap-
peal that there should be no change in the name.

Captain Garrett of Nashville, opposed any change in a brief but
telling speech. He said the name of the United Confederate Veterans
had been made famous all over the world. What better name could
be wanted? Should the old soldiers be robbed of the name "Vet-
eran" now when his head was gray and the organization had so
flourished under the title ? There were loud cries of " no, no," when
this question was asked.

Col. S. D. Bailey favored the suggested change in a brief but
strong talk, as did also Col. J. Colton Lynes of Georgia. Colonel
Dortch of Maryland, also favored the adoption of the letters C. S. A.

NO CHANGE OF NAME.

At this juncture Gen. Stephen D. Lee called for the previous
question. The call was sustained and on motion of Capt. John P.
Hickman the roll was called by States and the report of the commit-
tee sustained by a vote of 1,010 to 738.

Gen. Clement A. Evans said that, on behalf of Georgia, he had
made a strong fight for the change but he was a soldier and, there-
fore gracefully submitted to the verdict of the majority of his com-
rades. The organization was now the best lettered body he had ever
heard of. It was U. C. V., C. S. A. and U. S. A.

This latter sally was greeted with loud laughter and applause.

JEFFERSON DAVIS' BIRTHDAY.

The Committee on Resolutions then reported the following for
adoption :

"Resolved, That the 3d day of August, 1898, and each recurring
anniversary of that day shall be celebrated by this association with
appropriate ceremonies, so that the birthday of Jefferson Davis may
be kept in perpetual remembrance by the people."

This resolution was adopted by a rising vote.

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MUSTER ROLLS.

The following resolution was reported for adoption and on mo-
tion was unanimously adopted :

" Resolved, That the Adjutant General of the U. C. Vs. be re-
quested to furnish the Adjutant General with a list of the muster
rolls they may have and the date of each for the War Department."

This resolution was unanimously adopted,

PRAISE FOR GEN. MOORMAN.

The next resolution was the following, which was offered by
Comrade Wm. E. Mickle, of Mobile, Ala., recommended for adoption
and which was unanimously adopted by a rising vote:

"Inasmuch as Gen. George Moorman, Adjutant General and
Chief of Staff, has always refused any pecuniary compensation for the
great work that he has performed for the cause of the U. C. Vs.

"It is hereby ordered by the Convention of the U. C. Vs., assem-
bled in Nashville, that there be presented to him a suitable testi-
monial in the form of a small silk flag, on which is properly engrossed
the sentiments of this body, expressive of its high appreciation of the
noble work done by him, of the wonderful tact displayed under try-
ing circumstances, and of the cheerful, hearty nature of his inter-
course with every member of the order, by which self-sacrificing labor
he has made this organization what it is.

"It is further ordered that all expenses connected with getting
up this testimonial be paid out of the funds of the U. C. Vs.

The foregoing resolution was unanimously adopted by a rising
vote amidst loud cheers and cries for Moorman, Moorman.

Gen. Gordon in presenting him said: "Gentlemen of the Con-
vention, while Gen. Moorman is still a young looking man, I want you
to know that he is the Daddy of all these Camps."

Gen. Moorman — I thank you my comrades from the very bottom
of my heart. I do not intend to make a speech as we are nearing
adjournment. All I have to say is that this has been a matter of in-
spiration to me, and any one placed in my position, representing the
gallant men who fought from 1861 to 1865, and who was placed upon
the staff of the noblest American living to-day, could not have done
otherwise. I thank you my comrades.

WILSON CREEK REUNION.

The following resolution was submitted with recommendation
that no action be taken upon it:

"Whereas, the people of Springfield, Mo., are making extensive
arrangements to celebrate the thirty-sixth anniversary of the battle
of Wilson's Creek by calling together on August 9th to 14th next, in-
clusive, in a National Reunion of the Blue and the Gray, all soldiers

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who were engaged on both sides of that memorable and bloody con-
flict, and inviting to participate with them all soldiers and citizens of
our country who feel a friendly interest in the sentiment and pur-
poses of said reunion; therefore be it

"Besolved by this National Encampment of United Confederate
Veterans assembled, that we heartily indorse said reunion enterprise,
and commend it to our people everywhere, believing that such
friendly social intercourse by the people who were once hostile to
each other can but result in general good to all."

WAR HISTORY.

The following resolution was returned by the committee, with the
recommendation that it be referred to the Committee on History:

" Whereas, grave errors have been incorporated into our histories
and into our school books by Northern sectional authors and pub-
lishers, tending to the perversion of our historical literature, and to
the misleading of coming generations touching the causes, conduct
and results of the late war between the States; and,

"Whereas, certain Grand Army posts composed of surviving
soldiers of the Northern armies, have recently taken action encourag-
ing the continuance of the perversion of our history and attaching
odium to the people of the South; therefore be it resolved:

"1. That we owe it to our comrades, living and dead; we owe it
to the present, and we owe it to our children and to our children's
children, that we enter our solemn protest against this injustice, and
to use efforts becoming the manhood and womanhood of the South to
resist this lasting injustice to our great section.

"2. That a copy of this preamble and resolutions be forwarded
to the National Camp of the United Confederate Veterans in session
at Nashville, urging that action be taken looking to the preparation
of text books for our schools that will be free from these objection-
able features, and to the preparation of an impartial history of the
great civil war that will embrace a faithful narrative of events, and
that will place a fair construction upon the motives and actions of the
brave men and women of the South in that great struggle.

"3. Realizing that it must depend upon others of this and com-
ing generations to rescue and preserve our history from Northern
partisan misrepresentations and injustice, we commend this work as a
sacred trust to the sons and daughters of the Confederacy and to the
young of our country.

"The above is a true copy of preamble and resolutions adopted
by Camp Garlington No. 501, U. C.V., headquarters, Laurens, S. C., at
their meeting June 19, 1897.

"B. W. BALL, Commandant.
"B. W. SANFORD, Adjutant."

The recommendation of the committee was concurred in.

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MILITARY TITLES.

The committee recommended that the following resolution be not
acted upon, and this recommendation was concurred in:"

"Resolved, That no person holding an office in the Confederate
Survivors' Association shall hold or bear any title, designating mili-
tary rank, except the title or rank he was authorized or commissioned
to bear or hold as a soldier in the Confederate Army."

QUEEN VICTORIA.

The committee also reported that no action be taken in regard
to the following resolution:

"The United Confederate Veterans, in session at Nashville, Tenn.,
U. S. A., presents the compliments of the old soldiers of the Con-
federate States to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, of Great Britain, on
her long and illustrious reign and hope for many years continuance
of same."

The committee's recommendation was unanimously adopted.

HOME FOR OLD SOLDIERS. •

The following communication was referred to the Mississippi
Division in accordance with the recommendation of the committee.

"Meridian, Miss., June 18, 1897.

"To the Confederate Veterans' Association :

"Winnie Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy most respectfully and earnestly memorialize your association
in behalf of a permanent home for the many needy ex-Confederate
soldiers, to whom we owe a most sacred duty.

"For the purpose of securing such a home, we recommend and
urge that steps be immediately taken to put in operation some plan
that will ultimately result in the purchase of Beauvoir, the last home
of the lamented President Jefferson Davis. This home of the great
soldier-statesman should remain a home for his devoted followers as
long as one remains in need of such home.

"We recognize the fact that a very large majority of your mem-
bership consists of men of limited means and in many cases of no
means at all. We know it will require a sacrifice to secure the means
to purchase this beautiful and historic property, but it will require
no such sacrifice as the heroic defenders of the South made when
they risked their lives and all worldly possessions for the protection
of Southern homes and firesides. Let each encampment and each
chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy give a small sum
for two jears and the money can be raised without imposing a hard-
ship on any one. We believe there are thousands of well-to-do men
who never wore the gray but will contribute liberally to so noble a
purpose.

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"Let us in this way make our living heroes comfortable, and
when they have passed away we can either put the value of the
property into enduring monuments or convert it into a great school
and home for needy orphans.

"Most Respectfully submitted,

"MRS. A. G. WEEMS,
"President Winnie Davis Chapter, U. D. C.
"MRS. A. J. RUSSELL, Secretary.

CORRECT SOUTHERN HISTORY.

The following communication from the Raleigh, N. C, Chapter
of the Daughters of the Confederacy was reported without recom-
mendation:

"Raleigh, N. C, April 22, 1897.

"At a meeting of the Raleigh Chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, held April 13th, an article was read from the Baltimore
Sun showing that the G. A. R. and other similar organizations in the
Northern States propose introducing into the schools a partisan his-
tory, in which all Southerners who took part in the civil war are to be
branded as rebels and insurrectionists, Gen. R. E. Lee being espec-
ially named as one to be so regarded, and that Prof. MacMasters bas
been employed to write such a history, and that he is now engaged in
writing it; therefore, be it

"Resolved, first, that the Raleigh Chapter No. 96, of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy ask the L. O'B. Branch Can p of Confederate
Veterans to take this matter into serious consideration; to present it
to the other camps in North Carolina, and to cause it to be presented
to the United Order of Confederate Veterans at their meeting to be
held in Nashville, Tenn., in June next, so that action may be taken to
meet this proposition of the G. A. R. either by endorsing the best his-
tory already written, or by appointing a historian who shall prepare
a school history giving a truthful account of the causes and motives
which led to secession, and of the characters and actions of the men
who engaged in the vain but glorious effort to free this country from
Federal oppression.

"Second, that this chapter pledge itself after raising $50 for the
President Davis Monument Fund, to devote all other funds that it
may raise to the expenses of preparing this history.

(Signed) "KATE MACKIMMON,

"K. A. OLDS,
"ANNIE LANE DEVEREUX,

"Committee."

As action in regard to the matter referred to in the resolution
had been already taken, the resolution was tabled.

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JEFFERSON DAVIS MEMOIRS.
The following resolution was unanimously adopted by a rising

vote:

"Resolved, as the sense of this meeting, that the memoir which
Mrs. Davis has written of her distinguished husband, Jefferson Davis,
President of the Confederate States, is a valuable contribution to the
history of the stirring times in which he lived.

"Resolved, that, therefore, and for the further object herein re-
ferred to, this meeting commends the memoir most cordially to all
Confederate Veteran camps as being worthy of a place in their
archives, to be read by their children and children's children as a
faithful portraiture of the great statesman and soldier and of the
cause and people he served and suffered for.

"Resolved, that being, perhaps, the readiest way, as well as that
most acceptable and gratifying to Mrs. Davis for dis-posing of the
quite considerable number of memoirs remaining to her, at no little
cost, and thereby placing that venerable lady and Miss "Winnie Davis,
'Daughter of the Confederacy,' in easier circumstances, we suggest,
and as far as we may, urge that each veteran camp buy at least one
copy of the memoir at as early a day as practicable.

"Resolved, that should this method for selling the memoir be
found, at our next meeting, to have been inadequate, all Confederates
who may so desire will club together and, if possible, purchase the
remaining memoirs en bloc for free distribution among the camps,
which feel themselves unable to buy.

"Resolved, that in the latter contingency Gen. Stephen D. Lee
be requested to open books of subscription at the meeting and after-
wards, for the purpose in view, to take entire charge of the matter
and to push it as best he may to its accomplishment.

"Resolved, that it would be well for the various camps to corre-
spond, through their Secretary, with Comrade "Wm. H. Finney, Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans, Richmond, Va., for particulars in re-
gard to price, which vary from $5 to $10 per set of two volumes, ac-
cording to the binding.

"STEPHEN D. LEE."

General Gordon urged that every camp buy at least one of these.
He referred in a touching manner to the present financial condition
of Mrs. Davis and Miss Winnie, the "Daughter of the Confedracy."
General Gordon's remarks were greeted with loud cheering.

Gen. Stephen D. Lee also made a brief talk along the same line,
and exhibited at the close the pair of field glasses Jefferson Davis
used at the battle of Buena Vista. "He fought for these United
States," said General Lee solemnly, and many an old soldier's eye
grew dim as the recollections brought back by that pair of glasses
came to his memory.

At this juncture the reports of the heads of departments of the
Commanding Generals staff were handed to the reading clerk to be
read, and the Chairman directed that as the time was short and so

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mueh important business before the Convention, that if an opportu-
nity did not occur to read them that they be filed and printed as
part of the records of the Convention, which was done, and are as
follows :

SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT.

Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, )

Surgeon General's Office, [■

New Orleans, La., June 17, 1897. )

Major General Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff U. G.
Vs., New Orleans, La.:

General— I have the honor to submit that as outlined in my
rt port at the[ Sixth Annual Reunion, I expected on this occasion to
offer a very full statement connected with my department. The great
Lafayette Square fire of the 15th of April just passed, involved my
own residence and so scattered and destiojed the data I had col-
lected for that purpose, that I have been compelled to turn from that
determination, and to report upon another subject, which though
largely personal, possesses in my judgment a wide and general
interest.

In pursuance of this object, I beg to invite attention to the fol-
lowing, which I borrow from:

"The military operations of General Beauregard, in the war
between the States, 1861 to 1865, etc., by Alfred Roman," in volume
1, pages 372 and 373:

"On the 20th and 22d of May, General Villepigue informed Gen-
eral Beauregard that the enemy had sent to Fort Pillow two hundred
prisoners, most of whom were sick with small pox, and who had been
received without his authority, by the second officer in command.
Believing, as did also General Villepigue, that this would result in
communicating that tf rrible disease to the garrison, and thereby de-
stroy its effectiveness, General Beauregard at once telegraphed 're-
turn them forthwith.' But Commodore Davis, of the United States
Navy, peremptorily refused to take them back. They were cared for
by General Villepigue, and placed with great difficulty, in separate
quarters, under the intelligent and devoted supervision of Doctor C.
H. Tebault, of Louisiana, then a surgeon in the Confederate Army.
He wrote an interesting paper on the subject, detailing all the cir-
cumstances; but this document, to our regret, is not in our posses-
sion." .

My distinct recollection of the facts connected with the above
quotation, is that General Beauregard, had sent to General Halleck,
via Corinth, two hundred and two Federal prisoners, and that by way
of Fort Pillow, through Commodore Davis, the same number of Con-
federate prisoners had been returned in exchange by General Halleck.

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On reaching Port Pillow, under flag of truce, these exchanged Con-
federate prisoners were reported to be at that moment suffering from
small pox. When Brigadier General J. B. Villepigue, who had been
temporarily absent, returned to his headquarters and was informed
of this report regarding the state of health of these exchanged Con-
federates, the writer of this present report was sent for in his then
capacity of Acting Medical Director of the Fort, and directed to visit
these prisoners thus exchanged and report to General Villepigue, their
actual condition, and General Villepigue remarked, to the writer, that
if they were found to be suffering from the loathsome and most con-
tagious disease in question, he proposed to immediately return them
to General Halleck. The author of this report accordingly made the
visit to, and thoroughly examined these exchanged Confederate pris-
oners, and reported at once that General Villepigue's information with
respect to the malady referred to, was absolutely correct.

These exchanged Confederate prisoners stated to the writer that
they had been captured at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, where Confederate
Generals Mcintosh and McCollouch were killed; that they numbered
when taken prisoners something over eight hundred; that they all
died at Alton, Illinois, but this remnant, from small pox; that they
had come direct from Alton, to be thus exchanged, and they con-
cluded by imploring me to intercede in their behalf with General
Villepigue, that they be not returned to what they believed would
prove certain death to them, for they had learned in some manner
General Villepigue's intention in the premises. The author did
effectually intercede with General Villepigue, and the writer, accom-
panied by Commodore Montgomery, of the Cotton Boatram Fleet and
General Jeff Thompson, selected Hatchie Island, between Fort Pillow
and Fort Randolph, where they were placed for proper attention and
treatment, and the writer volunteered to assume charge of them, and
was accordingly appointed by General Villepigue in charge of them.
The exchanged Federal prisoners first above alluded to were sound in
body and limb, and the Confederates exchanged for these, were in all
stages of that fell disease, small pox, when received at Fort Pillow,
and placed under the writers care, with the exception of about six or
seven not yet attacked. I make this above statement as a matter of
history without comment. I proceed now to the kernel and objective
point of my present report. Having no vaccine matter at my dis-
posal and none within possible reach, the writer's best thoughts were
taxed for some means to protect those not yet attacked and to safe-
guard the garrison as well as himself. Being familiar with the great
Jenner's writings in this relation, the writer recalled the fact that the
true Jennerian virus was that derived from the cow while yielding milk,
and after the cow had been inoculated with the grease taken from the
horse, and the writer bad in his then limited observation, noticed
without a failure, that it was seemingly impossible to successfully
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It happened that there was a cow on this island furnishing milk,
and the writer conceived the idea of admixing the small pox lymph
of the attacked prisoners with the warm milk of the cow in question,
and with the thus modified small pox lymph, to protect those not yet
suffering from the malady, and protect himself as well.

The experiment proved a valuable one, for the dreaded malady
was instantly arrested. The few who had escaped the small pox re-
sponded promptly to the modified inoculation running the same
regular course obseived in vaccination, and presenting all the phases
of that well known operation. When Fort Pillow was evacuated
these exchanged Confederates were transported under my charge on
the Paul Jones, of Commodore Montgomery's fleet to Memphis, and
were finally delivered by me to General Price at Tupelo, Mississippi. .
The small pox did not extend to the garrison at Fort Pillow, and was
effectually arrested with these exchanged prisoners, through the
protective power of this modified small pox virus.

Some months preceding the termination of the war and while on
duty at the Hospital Post of Macon, Georgia, and assigned to the
Ocmulgee Hospital, Surgeon Stanford E. Chaille in charge, another
opportunity for testing the value of modified inoculation presented.
At this post, in association with my hospital duties, it became my duty
to protect against the contagion of small pox every soldier returning
from this post to his command in the field, if not already sufficiently
protected. The vaccine virus had become so dangerous that mothers
refused to have their infants vaccinated. By this refusal the means
for propagating good vaccine virus failed to meet the demands and
here again modified inoculation was successfully invoked. At Vine-
ville, on the edge of Macon, was located a large smallpox encamp-
ment, and modified inoculation was practiced at this locality on the
children and adults desiring protection, and from this encampment
was procured the smallpox virus for the modified inoculation per-
formed on the unprotected soldiers returning to the field. At this
post a soldier was not considered protected against smallpox who
had not undergone a re-vaccination after the lapse of two years.
Fearing the bad vacciEe virus, which caused many amputations as well
as deaths by reason of its impurity, these returning soldiers yielded
without hesitation to the fresh and pure modified inoculation, which
operated a complete success in every way and from every standpoint.
In a hurried report of this character the author cannot do more than
thus briefly state facts, as a detailed account would make the report
too lengthy for the purpose in hand.

Let me refer briefly to Jenner, again, to say that he, in his day,
cautioned against the employment of the vaccine virus, spontaneously
acquired by the cow. He designated virus thus obtained, spurious
vaccine virus. The Jennerian virus was thus obtained: In England,
the farriers as well as milkmaids indifferently milked the cows of the
dairy farm. Milch cows walking or running through the fields would
scratch their udders with briars thus encountered, and the farriers
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engage in milking the cows without first washing their hands, and so
communicating the matter of the grease to the scratched udders,
would result in inoculating the cows producing, in consequence, the
cow pox, thus furnishing in Jenner's view, the only reliable vaccine
virus. The only kind he recommended or depended upon for
protecting his patients.

Jenner observed that the milch cows suffering from the cow pox,
thus acquired, furnished a reduced supply of milk, and be foresaw
that when the owners of dairies understood how tbis cow pox was
produced, tbat steps would be taken to avoid tbis inoculation from
the grease of the horse to the cow, and so naturally avoid a lessening
of dairy profits by reason of tbis disease, thus propagated. And in
order to safeguard their profits, it would only be necessary to shield
the cow from the grease of the horse by prohibiting farriers from
milking cows, and assigning this duty only to women, as obtained in
Ireland, where no cow pox prevailed in consequence of this fact.

When dairy owners should thus protect their profits, Jenner fore-
saw that the genuine, and in his view, the only reliable vaccine virus
would cease to exist, and that some other source would have to be
provided.

The virus now employed is no longer the true Jennerian virus,
but the spurious or weak virus, condemned in his day and practice.
The spontaneously acquired disease is the present source from which
the vaccine virus now used is obtained — the source specifically con-
demned by Jenner, as too weak, to be depended on for continued pro-
tection against smallpox. Not to extend this report beyond a reason-
able readable length, I will conclude at this point by summarizing the
advantages offered by modified inoculation:

1st. Simultaneously with the presence of smallpox, we have
offered us the means for arresting the disease in its first appearance
by effectually limiting it to the first cases presenting.

2d. No doubt could txist with respect to its strength or fresh-
ness, for the physician can thus escape the intermediary and estimate
in his own knowledge its freshness in exact minutes and hours.

3d. Should a father enter his own home attacked by smallpox,
every member of his family could be protected through him, and no
questioning would be necessary, in employing the virus for modified
inoculation taken from himself, for the protection of his own family.

4th. Modified inoculation protects more lapidly than the best
possible vaccine virus md more certainly, for the author, and every
practioner of medicice cf ripe experience aEd who has seen much of
smallpox, knows that snallpox has repeatedly overtaken vaccination
two weeks after its successful insertion and even later, while in the
author's experience, medified inoculation bas arrested smallpox
already in the popular stnge.

5tb. Modified inoculation would make it unnecessary to provide
for compulsory vaccinations, when no physician employing the human-
ized, or the bovine virus, can voucb, personally, for its freshness or
its purity.

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6th. To-day every physician depends for his virus, upon vaccine
farms run for the profit of their owners, and he is compelled to rely
upon these propagators and their assistants, residing in distant locali-
ties, for the reliability, the honesty and the purity of their products,
whereas, in modified inoculation, he can provide his own material,
and can calculate from his own information, to a minute, with regard
to its freshness, and also in the matter of its purity.

7th. Modified inoculation can be made stronger or weaker, to
meet any required case or emergency; stronger, for example, in cases
prudently needing a second or third protection, if an emergency
should suggest repetitions.

8th. One or two modified inoculations would answer for a life-
time, whereas, one-third of the re-vaccinated will make a response, if
vaccinated with reliable virus every third year.

9th. A vaccinated patient will actively respond to modified in-
oculation in a year, and even a smallpox patient after recovery will
slightly, or positively, respond to modified inoculation, in the second
and even the first year.

10th. To practice modified inoculation, it is simply necessary to
obtain the smallpox lympth in the vesicular stage only, and admix the
same thoroughly with from three to six drops of fresh warm cow's
milk, and proceed to operate precisely as for vaccination. Modified in-
oculation, thus practiced, is not communicated by contact or contagion.

The author contributed his army experience on this subject, in
the first issue after the war, of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical
Journal, owned and edited by the present Dean of the Medical De-
partment of Tulane University, Professor S. E. Chaille, M. D. And
the writer, from that date to the present, in his private practice, when
confronted with smallpox, has unvaryingly, successfully and satisfac-
torily practiced in every case, modified inoculation, feeling better
pleased with the result, from every additional experience had with
the valuable remedy. And being the outgrowth of an experience
reached in a grave and pressing emergency, where necessity was made
the mother of this successful experiment, by a Confederate Surgeon, on
Hatchie Island, surrounded by smallpox cases, the writer has deemed
it proper and pertinent, before a Confederate Reunion, to embody in
his required report, this important fact of his experience, in the in-
terest of humanity, against the most loathsome of possible maladies.
The article referred to in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical
Journal was forwarded to the Surgeon General of the United States
Army a few years after its appearance, and the author holds his
acknowledgment of same, and in Gaillard's Medical Journal of New
York City, the author has contributed more than one article, setting
forth his experience since the war. The subject has not been re-
cently more vigorously pressed because the author did not desire a
reputation which might associate him in the remotest manner with
the care or treatment of smallpox cases, directly or indirectly.
Very respectfully and fraternally submitted,

C. H. TEBAULT, M. D,
Surgeon General U. C. V's,

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QUARTERMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT.

Head Quarters Quartermaster General's Office,
United Confederate Veterans.

Chattanooga, Term., June 22nd, 1897.

General Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff U. C. V's,
New Orleans, La.

General — In pursuance with my official duty as Quartermaster
General of the United Confederate Veterans, I submit the following
report:

The Seventh Annual Convention and Reunion, now convened in
the Capital City of Tennessee, has called for the transportation of
large bodies of our comrades and friends. It is a source of con-
gratulation that the transportation has been ample and free from
casualties and the rate as low as we can reasonably expect, except
from distant points. While the rate of one cent per mile traveled,
based upon the short line, is reasonable and satisfactory for short
distances, it is burdensome for those living at remote points from the
place of meetings. It has been the wish of this department to secure
a uniform co-operative rate from all points over six hundred miles
south of the Potomac and east of the Rio Grande, thus giving our
comrades and friends living at distant points a chance to attend the
Reunion at an aggregate rate from no point to the place of meeting
greater than twelve dollars for the round trip. I would recommend
that a vote of thanks be tendered the various transportation lines in
the South, east and west of the Mississippi, for past considerations
shown our comrades, their families and friends; and that we petition
said transportation lines to establish for our next Annual Convention
a Reunion rate of one cent per mile from all points not over six
hundred miles distant, based on the short line, and a uniform co-
operative rate from more distant points within the territory mentioned
not over twelve dollars for the round trip.

The adoption and protection of a society button and badge, for

the exclusive use of our association, has long been a source of concern

to this department. I was directed at New Orleans to have the old

button protected for our exclusive use if it could be done. I found

upon investigation it could neither be protected by a copyright nor

patent. I then got up the present design, the object and purpose

being to hold on to to the old design, to which we are all so much

attached, and add other harmonious features enough to make it

patentable. I submitted said design to the Houston meeting, and

was directed to have same patented, if available. I filed application

for same October, 1895, and patent was issued July 14th, 1896.

Notice has been given through the Adjutant General's office, as

required by the constitution, and the question of the official adoption

of the same is a subject for the consideration of the present meeting.

Based on authority and instructions received at Houston, I have
had made and furnished to the various camps of the new design up
to this date 400 buttons.

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1 would recommend the adoption of the new button, which is now
protected by patent, one of which I submit as a part of this report.
I also submit a badge on which is embossed the society emblem,
which is also protected under the patent granted for the button, thus
giving us a uniform camp badge, with name, number and location of
each camp. Such a badge will locate and identify our camps and
comrades at our annual meetings, and add greatly to the uniform
appearance of our parades. I also submit checks and vouchers
belonging to this department, and make same a part of this report.

All of which I very respectfully submit,

Very fraternally,

J. F. SHIPP, Quartermaster General,

United Confederate Veterans.

ADJUTANT GENERALS REPORT.

To General Jnb. B. Gordon, Commanding U. G. V.'s, Atlanta, Ga. :

General— I have the honor to make my annual report as Adju-
tant General of the U. C . V.'s and as chief of your staff.

I can point with pride and gratification to the large increase in
the membership of the U. C. V. Camps since my last report at Rich-
mond, Va., the Association then had only 850 Camps, and now num-
bers 1028. As far as is known to these headquarters the best of
feeling prevails in every quarter, and there has been no friction nor
ill feeling to mar the harmony and good fellowship which our fra-
ternal organization inculcates. Especial attention is called to the
proposed changes in the Constitution. Notice of which has been
given 90 days previous to this meeting in accordance with the Con-
stitution, as follows:

New Orleans, La., March 15th. 1897.

To all the Gamps of the United Confederate Veterans:

Notice is hereby given that the following changes in the Consti-
tution and By-Laws will be submitted to the delegates for their
action at the Seventh Annual Reunion to be held at Nashville on
June 22d, 23d and 24th, 1897.

To make whatever alteration is necessary in Section 1, Article 7,
in the Constitution "Badge," to substitute the new badge or button,
which is patentable for the present one in use which is not patentable.

To alter Article 1 of the Constitution to read, "Confederate
Survivors' Association," as per following memorial:

Camp 425, U. C. V, of Augusta, Georgia, petitions you to change
the name of this organization from United Confederate Veterans to
the "Confederate Survivors' Association," so that hereafter instead of
U. C. V., it will be C. S. A., Camp No. 1, Camp No. 2, and so on.

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We are aware of the reasons which originally led to the adoption
of the U. C. V. At that time there was no general organization, and
as most of the local societies were called Confederate Survivors' Asso-
ciations, the general organization was termed United Confederate
Veterans to prevent confusion.

But the original reasons have now ceased to exist. The local
organizations have now come into the general organization, and the
general organization should henceforth be known as the C. S. A.

But change the name to the C. S. A. and the living and the dead
alike can greet it with a fond, affectionate salutation. It stands for
Confederate Survivors' Association. The word Association means a
band of friends; the word Confederate speaks gloriously for itself;
the word Survivor points reverently to the good God who shielded
our heads in the day of battle and has mercifully prolonged our lives
to the present hour.

C. S. A. stands also for the Confederate States of America, and
happy would this people be if the wise restraints of the Confederate
Constitution were of force how throughout the length and breadth
of the land.

C. S. A. stands, too, for another name that shines like the planet
Mars in imperishable glory. At the sound of those three letters
there flashes upon the dazzled imagination of the world the dashing
cavalry, the steady cannoneers, the dauntless infantry of the Con-
federate States Army.

Brothers in Arms! we are not long here. For the time still left
us, when we meet to renew the recollections of the days of our youth
and glory, let us meet under the beloved, the illustrious name of the
C. S. A.

To add to the staff officers named in Section 10, Article 6 of the
Constitution, one Chief of Artillery and one Chief of Ordnance, each
with rank of Brigadier General.

To add to Section 1, Article 4 of the Constitution .Regiments and
Battalions to be officered with commensurate rank.

To add to Article 4 of the Constitution a Department of the
North to include all the Camps not embraced in the former Con-
federate States, and to put a General Officer in command who will
care for the graves of our Comrades buried upon Northern soil.

To add a clause to the Constitution giving members holding
proxies the right to vote when held by a member of any Camp in the
Division to which he belongs. This is necessary, on account of the
long distance which frequently separates the Veterans from the Re-
union, and their old age, infirmities, and often straightened circum-
stances entitle them to this character of representation from their
more fortunate Comrades.

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To change in Section 1, Article 5, "and one additional one for a
fraction of ten members" to read "twenty."

To change where the Constitution fixes the rank of Staff Officers
that it be changed to read "with rank not less than'' for the reason
that frequently officers are appointed or elected whose rank was
higher in the Confederate Army, and there seems to be no good rea-
son why their rank should be arbitrarily lowered.

To strike out Section 1, Article 11, of the Constitution. "Pro-
vided that notice and a copy of proposed changes shall have been
sent to each Camp, at least three months in advance of the annual
meeting."

To strike out in Article 7 of the By-Laws. "But any section
herein may be suspended for the time being, at any annual meeting
by a unanimous vote of the delegates present.

No amendments shall be considered unless by unanimous con-
sent, if a notice and copy of it shall not have been furnished to each
Camp in the Federation at least thirty (30) days before the annual
meeting."

To make such changes in the Constitution and By-Laws as will
provide at once for the formation of Sons and Daughters of Veterans
into separate National Organizations, prescribing plans and forms for
immediate organization, and the appointment by the General Com-
manding of the first President or Commander of each Association,
that they may be made auxiliary, and to report to the U. C. V.'s
Headquarters, and the members of each organization to pay a per
capita tax of five cents per annum into the U. C. V. treasury. This
is urgent from the mournful fact that our ranks are thinning daily,
and our beloved representatives should step in now and arrange to
take charge of Southern history, our relics, mementoes and monu-
ments, and stimulate the erection of other monuments to our heroes,
ere "taps" are sounded for the last of their fathers.

By order of

J. B. GORDON, General Commanding.

GEO. MOORMAN, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Some of these changes are urgent and the earnest attention of the
Convention is called to the prompt consideration of these matters. I
especially urge prompt and liberal action in regard to the Camps of
Sons and chapters of Daughters of the Confederacy, and Section 3,
Article 8 of the Constitution prescribes that the sons and daughters
of Veterans are to have representation in this body, the ratio of their
representation to be fixed by the delegates in a Convention of this
Association.

These important auxiliaries are here waiting for the decision of
the Convention as to their status, and I ask that the matter will be
considered at once and their status defined.

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The following membership fees and per capita tax, balance from last
last report, amounts received from commissions, certificates, and sale of
books received since my last report made at Richmond, Va., $3670.11,
with total expenditures to date of $3478.82, leaving balance on hand of
$191.29, itemized statement of which is attached hereto, and which
will be published in full in the proceedings of the Convention. I
desire to thank the Press of the South for the gratuitous and gener-
ous help extended to the Association at all times. Also to thank the
Veterans from every section of the South for their uniform courtesy
and for the consideration shown to me.

Respectfully submitted,

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

DAVIS MONUMENT FUND.

The report of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association was
read, showing that there is now $17,937.16 in the fund, the Treasur-
er's report also showing that this amount was in bank to its credit.
It was moved and seconded that the report be received, which was
adopted.

On motion of Major General Robt. White, of West Virginia,
Lieutenant Generals Stephen D. Lee, Wade Hampton and W. L.
Cabell were declared Department Commanders for the ensuing year
by acclamation.

General Lee made an attempt to decline, but his voice was
drowned by loud cries of "no, no,' "never," and he said there is but
one Gordon, the typical soldier and gentleman, and it is meet and
proper that the Veterans should make and keep him their Commander,
but for myself who have served five or six years, it is a matter of
principle with me in my command, and you can get as good a Con-
federate as I am to serve. General Gordon called General Lee to
order. General Lee said, I am a loyal Confederate and always sub-
mit when the orders issue from my commanding officer.

General Gordon said, now will you serve; and the gallant soldier
had nothing to do but to obey.

LAY-OVER PRIVILEGES.

A verbal resolution to the effect that the railroad companies be
requested to extend the tickets of all Veterans returning home by
Chattanooga for forty-eight hours was adopted. This was asked in
order that the old soldiers might have the opportunity of visiting
Chickamauga National Park and Mission Ridge.

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NEXT PLACE OP MEETING.

Invitations for the place of holding the next reunion were now in
order and nearly all the remaining hours of the session were spent in
the presentation of the claims of the cities that were anxious for the
reunion. Speeches were limited to fifteen minutes.

Col. Bennett H. Young, of Kentucky, presented Louisville's
claims in an eloquent and entertaining speech.

General Clement A. Evans, of Georgia, pi-esented Atlanta's claims
and invitation in an eloquent manner after requesting the Secretary
to read an invitation from the Mayor and City Council. Gen. Evans
made a powerful appeal to the Convention on behalf of Georgia to
meet in her capital.

Col. West Speaks.

Col. A. J. West, of Atlanta, followed in a speech that was as
graceful and stirring as could well be imagined. He said:

"Would that I had the grace and gift of Heaven to express to
you the grateful emotions of our hearts on this occasion ;
grateful for this auspicious gathering, grateful for the pleas-
ure and privilege of looking again into the eyes of these brave
meu, whose rifles rung alike on the historic heights of Gettys-
burg, and the sanguinary plains of Chickamauga; grateful that while
the Confederate soldier lost his cause, 'he found fame that fills the
world.' Defeat my comrades, always implies disaster, but it need not
imply disgrace.

"Leonidas and his 300 are still reckoned as the sifted wheat of
the world's heroes. The few thousand that surrendered at Appomat-
tox and Greensboro are as immortal as the invincible Tenth Legion
of Roman History or the victorious Ironsides of Cromwell. Your
great chieftain, Jefferson Davis, in exile and prison, was nobler than
Caesar with the Senate at his heels. In my imagination I have seen
Napoleon putting down the mob in Paris; I have seen him at the
head of his army in Italy; I have seen him on the Alps, mingling the
eagles of France with the eagles of the crags; I have seen him at
Marengo and Austerlitz; I have seen him in the shadow of the Pyra-
mids, when he told his soldiers 'forty centuries would look down upon
them.' I have seen him crossing the bridge at Lodi, with the tri-
color in his hands. I have seen him building up an empire out of
the ruins of Europe by means of his own ingenuity, but with all
that, I would rather have the record of these humble Confederate
soldiers, battling or the land of the free and the home of the brave,
than to have that of Napoleon with his selfish, vaulting ambition.

"The winding Cumberland, whose waters go rushing through
your beautiful city, will continue to bear upon its bosom the bur-
dens of commerce; the mountains of Tennessee, bursting with riches,
will pour forth their precious metals; the smoke from the chimneys

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of your increasing factories will blacken the skies and your valleys
will glow in the garniture of a richer harvest. The remnant of lives
spared from the battle will be interwoven in the texture of the
Union; new stars will cluster upon the flag and the sons of the
South will bear it as their fathers bore it, that the bounds of free-
dom may be wider still; our great race will meet and solve every
question, however dark that confronts us; a mighty people, strong
and reconciled, will stretch forth their arms to stay those of the op-
pressor. But no greater spirits will rise than those who found rest
under the Southern sod from Sumter's battered walls to the trailing
vines and ivy leaves of Holy wood.

"It is beyond the reach of either brush or chisel to redeem to the
imagination such men and such scenes as shine forth in their 2200
battles and combats, and not until some new born Homer shall touch
the harp can mankind be penetrated by a sense of their heroic deeds,
and then alone in the grand majestic minstrelsy of epic song. It is
to perpetuate the memory of such men that your Association in its
wisdom assembles once a year to do honor to them. You have in
your Reunions gone around the geographical circle, beginning at
Chattanooga; thence to Jackson, Miss.. New Orleans, Houston, Rich-
mond, and now Nashville, the city and State that gave to the world
Andrew Jackson.

"We invite you now my comrades, to raise the rallying cry for
the "Center" for next year. We invite you to a city, at whose very
threshold Hood fought and Walker fell; a city whose women and
children were banished, and their homes laid in ashes. A city, whose
destruction, caused by the torch in the invader's hand, produced
such a light that one standing on the summit of Stone Mountain, at
midnight, a distance of sixteen miles, could easily pick up a pin from
the ground. A city, in whose trenches the father fell, and the strip-
ling from the playground rushed to fill his place. A city, whose bat-
tlefields are raked over, and children gather up bullets, as they would
pluck berries. A city, whose household ornaments and utensils were
broken and moulded into misles of war; a city whose very church
bells, with their mellow chimes that had summoned her people to the
altar, were melted and sounded the grim thunders of artillery; a
city where everything was lost, save manhood and womanhood; a
city whose people returned after the surrender, found gourd vines
running across her once most fashionable thoroughfare. But she
comes to you today, my comrades, expressing gratitude that the long
fever of slavery and of war and of desolation, and destruction, and
distrust has past. She comes to you today as Atlanta, standing
proudly erect, with the flush of success upon her cheeks, and the light
of hope in her eyes, with the stars and stripes in her right hand, and
the enblem of an undivided and indivisible Union, waving a friendly
notice to our brethren of the North, the East and the West, that she
challenges them to a friendly but earnest rivalry in building up the
prosperity of this country.

of the United Confederate Veterans. 8j

"Atlanta, standing 1100 feet above tbe sea level, with granite
foundation, with beautiful women and hospitable homes, bids you
come. Atlanta, with her thirteen great railroads, furnishing sharp
competition from every direction, and giving opportunity for the
lowest rates ever yet obtained, invites you to come.

"Atlanta, with her hundred church spires pointing heavenward,
indexing the moral sentiment of the people, invites you to come.

"Atlanta, with her 160 miles of paved streets and her 160 miles
of electric car lines, extending from the Chattahoocbie, whose waters
were made red by the blood of your brothers to Decatur, a distance
of sixteen miles, invites you to come.

"Atlanta, with her public schools, unexcelled in America, sends
greetings to you through the loving hearts of her 15,000 school
children, who stand ready to gladden your line of march with roses
and choicest flowers, invites you to come.

"Atlanta, with her 120,000 people, invites you to come. In
behalf of Atlanta and her municipal government, and all of her
people, I wish to say to every Confederate soldier, wherever found, on
land or on sea, make your reunion with us next year. Come on and
be glad, for there is room enough for all, with hearts all rejoicing,
homes all peaceful, doors all open, the welcome shall be jours and
yours forever.

Applause was hearty at the close and during this eloquent
speech .

Young Thomas Cobb, one of the most eloquent and brilliant
young speakers ever heard on a Nashville platform, appealed to the
old soldiers to meet in the Georgia capital in behalf of 100,000 sons
of Confederate Veterans. This speech was a powerful one and was
manifestly effective.

Col. Zabel, of Louisiana, seconded Atlanta in a few remarks
showing the appropriateness of meeting there next time, as it was
the home of General Gordon.

General Chalaron, of New Orleans, was the next speaker and ex-
tended the association a warm invitation to meet in the Crescent City
next year. He reminded them of the fact that New Orleans was the
cradle of the U. C. V., aud said she yearned for them to meet there
as a mother yearns for her children.

Dr. Tichenor, of Louisiana, seconded Atlanta, whereupon Gen.
Chalaron arose and withdrew New Orleans, saying if there was any
division whatever in the Louisiana Camps he did not want to urge
the point further. Col. Wood, of Louisiana, made a point of order
that comrade Tichenor is not a delegate. The Chair. It is not
proper for tbe Chair to rule upon a local matter.

Col. Bennett H. Young, of Kentucky, spoke eloquently in nomi-
nating Louisville, and invited the association to hold its 1898 reunion
in the Falls City. His arguments as to why this should be done were
of the most eloquent and telling character. He spoke of the 15,000
Confederate soldiers who slept beneath Kentucky soil, of how their

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graves had been kept green and their memories cherished. He re-
ferred to the number of soldiers from all the Southern States who
were sleeping in Kentucky soil, and whose graves were kept green by
Kentuckians. He told them of the shafts that pierced the skies and
other monuments that had been erected to the memory of these Con-
federate dead. Col. Young concluded by saying: "Come to Ken-
tucky and we will lead you in pleasant ways and you can lie down in
the shade by the still waters (loud applause); we will give you 2:40
horses to drive, beeves with backs so broad you can build houses on
them, and some of those sheep that were so fat when you first saw
them tbat they looked like elephants, and you were afraid to approach
them. If Atlanta can give you that, why go to Atlanta."

BALTIMORE WANTED IT.

Col. Andrew Tripp, of Maryland, invited the old soldiers to hold
their next reunion at Baltimore. He reminded them that 25,000
Marylanders exiled themselves from home to fight for a principle they
believed to be right; of the illustrious leaders she gave the Southern
army; of the Maryland women, who met the Confederate prisoners
at the trains when they came to prison and swept aside the Yankee
bayonets with their bare hands.

He said: "I am afraid for you old Confederates to ride behind
2:40 horses and eat fat beeves. I invite you to come to us and eat the
lazy terrapin and the canvass back duck." (Applause).

The speaker paid a glowing tribute to the women of Maryland,
and told of the heroic things they had done for Confederate soldiers
of every State. He told them of the amount of money that the men
of his State had spent in buying implements and seeds for the Con-
federate soldiers after the war.

Col. Tiipp's eloquent appeal evoked loud and prolonged applause.
Col. Hart, of South Carolina, seconded Atlanta.
North Carolina seconded Maryland, and upon a vote by States
Atlanta was selected as the place for holding the next reunion by the
following vote:

Atlanta, 1075; Louisville, 544; Baltimore, 176.
Tennessee cast a solid vote for Louisville.

The Chair announced tbat a majority is required, and that
majority having been given for Atlanta, we will therefore meet in
Atlanta next year.

The following resolution, offered by Col. John W. Sanford, of Ala-
bama, was adopted by a rising vote:

'^Resolved, That the thanks of the United Confederate Veterans
be, and the same are hereby tendered to the State of Tennessee, and
especially to the City of Nashville, for the great courtesy and bound-
less hospitality extended to the Confederate Veterans now assembled
in this city."

Col. D. A. Fenton, of Maryland, offered resolution about Con-
federate dead at Columbus, Ohio, and that Col. Win. H. Knauss be
made acknowledgment through the Adjutant General of this Asso-
ciation. Unanimously carried.

of the United Confederate Veterans, Sp

Comrade Hart, of South Carolina, made a motion that the second
Tuesday after the first Monday in July be selected as time of next
meeting.

On motion of Dr. Jones, the time for holding the reunion at At-
lanta was placed entirely in the hands of the Executive Committee.

McCulloch, of Missouri. The Veterans of my Department can-
not come then, put it off until October.

The Chair made announcement about parade on the morrow.

Alabama moved and seconded that the Railroads be thanked for
the courtesy extended to the members of this Convention. Carried.

Comrade Harby, representing California, asks for a Division to
be created. She had to fight to get into the South.

The Chair — That will have to be done according to the Constitution.

The Chair will be very glad to see the gallant Veterans of Cali-
fornia organized into a Division, but it must be done in accordance
with the custom and law.

Colonel Sanford of Alabama — I give notice at the next Reunion to
change name from'U. C V. to C. S. A. I now give notice that an effort
will be made to change from U. C. V. to C. S. A., and the delegates
will be instructed to that effect.

Comrade Williams of Winchester, moved and seconded that the
thanks of this body be extended to the newspaper press, especially of
the South, for their courtesy in advancing the interest of the Order.
Unanimously carried.

BATTLE ABBEY.

The following resolution, offered by a Richmond delegate, was
tabled :

"Resolved, that the subordinate camps of this United Grand
Camp instruct their delegates to our next reunion, to be held at
Atlanta, in 1898, to vote for a location for the Battle Abbey."

A resolution was adopted thanking Miss Amanda Childress, Col.
Fred Robertson, Col. Ed Manning, Capt. Wm. E. Mickle and pretty
little Miss Bettie Buck for their courtesies at general headquarters.

LAST WORDS.

General Gordon said that as the blessing of God had been called
down upon the convention when it met it was meet that it should be
invoked upon adjournment, and the audience stood while the Chap-
lain, Gen. Dr. Jones, delivered a short prajer and pronounced a feeling
benediction.

On motion the Convention adjourned until their next Reunion at
Atlanta, Ga.

E. C. MANNING, GEO. MOORMAN,

Beading Clerk. Adjutant General.

MISS A. C. CHILDRESS,

Official Stenographer.
(official)

Geo. Moorman,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

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-A.i'FEisriDix:.

Patriotism Ruled the Hour.

Closing of Stoees During the Pabade Highly Appreciated. — Ten-
nessee Was Geeat in Was and is Equally as Great in Peace.

Headquartees United Confedeeate "Veterans, )
Nashville, Tenn., June 25, 1897. )
General Orders No. 183:

1. The almost unparalleled love and devotion which the glorious
people of Tennessee bestowed upon the Confederate soldier from
1861 to 1865 has bet n rivaled, and, if it were possible, excelled by
the unstinted love and affection showered upon the survivors of
that serried host by her golden-hearted people at her Capital City,
thirty-three years after the mighty contest ended.

That the echoes of that love and devotion have been distinctly
heard in various ways, both substantial and sentimental, for a third
of a century, to at last burst forth in spontaneous and almost bound-
less affection and hospitality, is a matter of pride and deepest gratu-
lation, and is the best evidence that gratitude and appreciation for
the immortal services of these heroic old soldiers fill to ovei flow-
ing the hearts of the Southern people.

The noble people of this great city and State, who have contri-
buted so generously and graciously to this result, and to the care
and comfort of the old Veterans, are entitled to the highest praise
and to the gratitude of every visitor during the Reunion; and the
General Commanding, fearing that he has not expressed his heartfelt
thanks in proportion to the wealth of hospitality so freely and
lavishly dispensed during the reception and entertainment of the old
battle-scarred Veterans of the "lost cause," whom he has the high
honor to command, and which was showered so profusely upon them,
as well as himself, desires to express his deepest appreciation and
satisfaction for everything which was done for the United Confederate
Veterans and himself, by the hospitable people of Nashville and of
Tennessee.

2. The General Commanding desjres Tennesseans to know that
he fully understands the gigantic work they undertook, and that they
have performed their part well; they have greeted and cared for the
old Confederate soldiers in a manner which has touched the hearts of
the old heroes, and left tender and sacred recollections of this visit
to their Capital city.

of the United Confederate Veterans. gi

To the everlasting credit of the city of Nashville be it said that
no extortion has been practiced upon the old heroes, and that in
their presence all desire for gain and mercenary motives were laid
aside— patriotism ruled the hour— as tbe placards read upon the doors
of her palaces of trade, on the day of tbe parade, "Closed in Honor
of the United Confederate Veterans."

Tennessee was great in war, and by the homage she has shown
to the remnant of her heroic defenders sbe has shown herself to be
equally as great in peace.

3. The General Commanding desires the loyal women of Nash-
ville to know that they will never be forgotten, for the grace and
courtesy and queenly homage shown by them to these brave men, to
whose fame and history they have ever'been faithful, and devoted and
true; their untiring efforts for the comfort and enjoyment of the old
heroes during their visit to Nashville is but a reflex of the devotion
and patriotism shown by them during the stormy days of the war,
and is additional evidence that the high appreciation and love of
mankind for the women of the South is not misplaced.

4. The General Commanding also desires to compliment and
thank the Sons and Daughters of Veterans who are to be our worthy
successors when we are gone, for their indefatigable and successful
efforts in assisting to make this reunion such a great success. The
devotion they have shown for the deeds of their fathers, who have
added so much lustre to the history of the South, has deeply touched
his heart.

5. He also desires to express his grateful thanks to that splendid
Chairman of the Reunion Committee, Col. J. B. O'Bryan, and to each
and every member of the committee for their ability and labor, and
to the skillful and untiring efforts of the chairman is due the credit of
the success of the reunion.

6. He expresses his warmest thanks to Major General W. H.
Jackson, Commander of the Tennessee Division, and Chief Marshal of
the parade, for the completeness and systematic manner in which
everything under his supervision was corjducted.

7. Another feature has not only elicited his highest admiration,
but has found an echo in the hearts of every visitor to this beautiful
city, and that is the superb management and efficiency of tbe Com-
missary Department, managed by our comrade, Dr. W. J. McMurray,
which will live forever in the memory of the old survivors, as "The
Confederate Hotel." When it is known that this splendid officer has,
within three days' time, dispensed meals gratuitously, in the aggre-
gate to over 36,000 Veterans, some idea can be formed of tbe almost
limitless hospitality of Nashville and Tennessee, and is indisputable
evidence of the undying love and affection in which the Veterans of
the South are held by their people at this day.

By order of,

J. B. GORDON,
GEORGE MOORMAN, General Commanding.

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.
[official.]

g2 Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

Following received from that great "American," Col. Wm. H.
Knauss, acknowledgment of receipt of amounts sent for decoration
and care of the Confederate gaves at Camp Chase.

Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1897.
Gen. Geo. Moorman, Neiv Orleans, La.:

Dear Sir — Yours of May 21st containing check for $23, addressed
to Mr. W. H. Knauss at hand, and wiil be used as intimated. The
accompanying paper by same mail will explain why Mr. Knauss has
been negligent of late. He regrets very much his sickness just at the
present time, as his whole heart is wrapped up in this cause, but the
cause will not suffer. Would that every American had the patriotism
that he has. I saw him this morning and he is improving so fast that
I thick he will be able to come out in a few days.
Yours very truly,

SARAH J. STIMMEL.

LETTERS RECEIVED CONTAINING MONEY.

Columbus, Ohio, May 27, 1897.

Dale. Name and P. 0. Address. Amount.

May 12 John Boyd, Louisville, Ky., J. C. Breckenridge Camp

No. 100 $ 5 00

" 14 Jas. M. Arnold, Newport, Ky 100

" 14 S. Tompkins for "W. A. Sidebottom, Chattanooga,

Tenn 1 00

" 14 F. S. Hewes, Mississippi, City, Miss., Camp Beauvoir,

No. 120 *. 2 00

" 15 Dr. Wm. D. Doughty, No. 903 Greene Street,

Augusta, Ga 5 00

" 11 Col. Joseph V. Bidgood, Richmond, Va 50

" 17 Morton M. Cassedy, Louisville, Ky 2 00

" 17 M. D. Gardner, New Orleans, Camp No. 2 25 00

" 19 E. G. Williams, Wanyesville, Mo., C. H. Howard

Camp No. 688 2 50

" 15 Capt, J. M. Wright, Gainesville, Texas 3 75

" 18 Daniel A. Fenton, No. 221, W. Preston Street, Balti-
more, Md 5 00

'? 17 J. M. Wahl, Grenada, Miss , W. R. Barksdale Camp

No. 189 2 00

" 17 Commander Camp Guthrie, No. 888, U. C. V., Alpine,

Texas 2 00

" 21 Sterling Price Camp, No. 31, Dallas, Texas 20 00

" 21 Geo. E. Pickett Camp, No. 204, Richmond, Va 2 00

" 21 Leonidas J. Merritt Camp, No. 387, Pittsboro, N. C. 1 00
" 24 Wm. George, Vicksburg, Miss., 810 Marshall Street,

Camp No. 32 2 50

" 26 Henry Hiden, No. 80 Adams Street, Chicago, 111. . . . 2 50

" 25 I. H. Harrison, Sulphur Springs, Texas 1 25

Total $86 00

of the United Confederate Veterans. pj

Gen. Geo. Moorman:

Sir — Mr. Knauss requests me to send you copy of all receipts
to date. Yours truly, S. J. S.

The following amounts in addition to above received 1897:

W. N. Pendleton Camp, No. 579, Deport, Texas $ 2 00

Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, No. 113, Colorado, Texas 2 00

Levi B. Smith, Camp No. 402, Talbotton, Ga 11 02

A. S. Johnston, Camp No. 144, San Antonio, Texas 2 10

GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.

Richmond, Va., April 30, 1898.

General Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, New
Orleans, La. :

General — I beg to acknowledge your check for $125 for the
Jeff Davis Monument Fund, on account of subscription by
Palestine Camp No. 44, Palestine, Texas, $100; Feliciana Camp No.
264, JacksoD, La., $25, which I have placed to the credit of the
Association with thanks.

Yours very respectfully,

J NO. T. ELLETT,

Treasurer.

Following is an itemized statement of receipts and expenditures
referred to in Adjutant Generals Report.

Geo. Mookman, Adjutant General,

In account with United Confederate Veterans.

Following amounts of per capita and membership fees are made
up from last report to date of report for the Nashville Reunion, and
are for the year ending April 1st, 1897.

Army of Northern Va Camp No. 1 P. C. $16 10

Army of Tennessee " 2 " 31 00

General LeRoy Stafford " 3 " 6 90

N. B. Forrest " 4 " 7 20

Fred Ault " 5 " 5 25

Jeff Davis " 6 " 11 00

Ruston " 7 " , ( 8 00

7 " aa' | 2 00

Ex-Confederate Ass'n of Chicago.. " 8 " 3 00

Veteran Confederate States Cavalry " 9 " , ( 5 40

9 " ad- | 6 00

Ward Confederate Veterans " 10 lt 11 00

Raphael Semmes " 11 " 20 10

Turney " 12 " 5 10

W. W. Loring « 13 " 2 40

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R. E. Lee Cam

Washington Artillery

Henry St. Paul

Baton Rouge

Iberville

Ben Humphreys

Natchez

J. J. Whitney

Kit Mott

Robert A. Smith

Walthall

W. A. Montgomery

Isham Harrison

Confedeiate Historical Ass'n ....

Ben McCnlloch

Ben McCulloch

Sterling Price

p No.

Vicfcsburg

Joseph E. Johnston

Frank Cheatham

Hillsboro

Jno. Ingram

Major Victor Mauriu

W. J. Hardee

Natchitoches

Mouton . .

Stonewall Jackson

Jno. C. Upton

Palestine . . .

Felix K. Zollicoffer

Woodville

Jno. B. Gordon

Montgomery

Orange County . . .

Dibrell

Marion Co. Confd. Vet. Ass'n. . . .

R. E. Lee

Calcasieu Confederate Veterans.

Sanders ,

Jeff Lee

Albert Sidney Jobnston

Forbes

Amite City

Merkel

Kansas City
Joe. B. Palmer.
Wm. Frierson .

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19 30

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5 60

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4 50

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Bernard E. Bee Camp No. 84

Wm. L. Moody

Camp Cabell

Mildred Lee

Bob Stone

Joe Johnston

John H. Morgan

Wm. Preston

Abe Buford

George W. Johnson

Ben Desha

John C. Breckinridge
Ben Hardin Helm . . .

Wiley G. Post

Jno. B. Hood

Magruder

Jno. H . Morgan

Winnie Davis

Isaaih Norwood

W. P. Townsend

Albert Sidney Johnston

Shackleford-Fulton

Albert Sidney Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston

Jeff Davis

Stonewall Jackson

Joseph E. Johnston

Beauvoir

Col. Dud Jones

Bell Co. Ex. Confd. Ass'n

L. F. Moody

J. B. Robertson ,

Robt. E. Lee

Young County

Sul Ross

Camp Bee.

John M. Stone

Milton ,

Gen. W. W. Starnes.

Ex-Con'fd. As'n. Coryell Co

F. R. Lubbock

John W. Caldwell

D. L. Kenan

Bowling Green

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12 50

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Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 144 P. C. 8 00

Geo. D. Manion " 145 « jq 00

Ben T. Duval. « 146 « 4 en

C.M.Winkler « 147 " 17 go

Lomax « 151 « 4 10

Richland « 152 « 4 3q

Stewart " 155 «< j in

John C. G. Key " 156 " • 9 80

Bessemer « 157 « 5 90

K- E. Lee « 158 » , ( 2 50

" 158 « ad- 7 50

Atlanta " 159 «« 30 00

Horace Randall " 163 " 1 99

Albert Sidney Johnston " 165 " 3 qo

Claiborne ... " 167 « 2 70

Tom Green « 169 •« 5 00

Matt Ashcroft «.« 170 " 410

Washington City Con'fd " 171 " 24 20

Sul Ross " 172 '« 4 00

E. Kirby Smith . . " 175 « 2 00

Yazoo « 170 « 10 90

Capt. David H. Hammons " 177 «« 2 10

Winchester Hall " 178 " 3 00

W. H. H. Tison ■« 179 «« 3 00

James Longstreet " 180 " 6 10

R- E. Lee " 181 « 40 40

Henry W. Allen " 182 " 6 20

John Peck " 183 « 2 30

Roger W. Hanson « 186 " 150

Humphrey Marshall " 187 " l 00

Thomas B. Monroe " 188 " l 00

W. R. Barksdale '« 189 m ( 3 qo

" 190 « ad- { l 70

Pat R. Cleburne " 190 " 2 00

Lake Pi'ovidence ,( 193 '« 2 40

John Donaldson " 195 « 2 40

Braxton Bragg " 196 " 7 00

Dick Dowling «' 197 «« 15 00

Gen. J. B. Gordon " 200 « 2 00

Roy S. Cluke " 201 « 50

Gratiot « 203 « 2 00

Geo. E. Pickett « 204 " 18 50

William Watts " 205 " 4 00

Joseph L. Neal " 208 • «• 2 50

Magruder-Ewell " 210 « 5 00

Cabarrus Co. Con'fd. Vet. Ass'n . . " 212 " 6 00

J. Warren Grigsby " 214 " l 00

Thomas B. Collins " 215 " 150

McMillan « 217 " 2 80

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De Soto Camp No. 220 P. C.

Pat Cleburne •' 222 "

Franklin K . Beck " 224 "

Wilson County " 225

Amite County " 226 "

Frank Terry " 227

Arcadia " 229 "

R. E, Lee " 231 "

Albert Sidney Johnston " 232 "

John B. Hood " 233 "

Ector " 234

Sylvester Gwin " 235 "

John H. Walker " 237

W. A. Percy " 238 "

Washington ..... " 239 "

Gen. Turner Ashby " 240 "

Ned Merri wether " 241 "

Clinton Terry " 243 "

Charles M. Shelly " 246

Col. James Walker " 248 "

Camp Sumpter " 250 "

E. Kirby Smith " 251

Patrick R. Cleburne " 252

Thomas H. Hunt " 253 "

Cape Fear " 254

Elmore County " 255 "

Pelham " 258

Jos. E. Johnston " 259 "

Jo. Wheeler " 260

Feliciana " 264 "

Joseph E. Johnston " 267 "

James F. Waddell " 268

Gen. Geo. Moorman " 270 "

Camp McGregor " 274 "

EmmaSansom " 275 "

Catawba " 278 "

Lake County Confd. Vet. Ass'n ... " 279 "

Jasper Hawthorn " 285 "

John A. Wharton " 286 "

Tom Wallace " 289 "

Aiken-Smith " 293 "

E. A. O'Neal " 298 "

Andrew Coleman " 301 "

Jefferson Lamar " 305 "

Beauregard " 306 '*

Frank Cheatham " 314 "

Palmetto Guard " 315 "

Randolph « 316 "

Catesby Ap. R. Jones " 317 " 10 06

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TomHindman Camp No. 318 P. C. 3 50

Col. Chas. F. Fisher " 319 "

Camp Ruffin " 320 " 10 00

Ike Turner " 321 ■■ 4 90

W.P.Rogers " 322 « 2 20

Camp Pickens " 323 " 5 00

Stockdale " 324 « 4 30

T. J. Bullock " 331 " 7 50

Camp Sumter " 332 " 2 40

Montgomery Gilbreath "333 " 4 10

James D.Nance -'336 " 10 20

Albert Pike " 340 " 7 00

Crawf. Kimball " 343 " 5 40

Peter Bramblett " 344 " 50

Camp Jamison " 347 " 50

El Reno .'.... " 348 " 25

John James " 350 " 5 00

John M. Bradley " 352 " 3 40

Bill Feeney '. " 353 " 9 00

Omer R. Weaver " 354 " 10 00

Egbert J. Jones " 357 " 11 10

R. Q. Mills " 360 « 1 30

Camp Mcintosh " 361 " 3 00

Camp Hughes " 3C5 " 150

Floyd County Vet Ass'n " 368 " , j 2 50

' « « " 368 « ad-{ 4 50

Gordon - 369 " 7 00

Leander McFarland " 373 « 4 00

J. E Johnston " 377 " 2 50

Mecklenburg " 382 " 14 00

Prairie Grove " 384 " 6 00

Camp Miller " 385 " d j 2 30

385 " au# ( 1 10

Jeff Davis "386 " 190

Leonidas J. Merritt " 387 " 2 00

Hampton " 389 - 9 00

John T. Wingfield ° 391 " 7 70

Robinson Springs " 396 " 3 50

Cap Perot " 397 " 2 10

Holmes County " 398 " 2 50

Thos. H. Hobbs " 400 - 10 00

L. B. Smith <■■ 402 " 4 20

Terrell County Confd. Vet " 404 " 2 00

Troup County Confd. Vet " 405 " 4 40

Lowden Butler " 409 " 4 40

Thomas M. Wagner " 410 " 150

JohnPelham ... " 411 " 3 10

J.B.Kershaw " 413 " 3 50

Secession u 416 " 2 00

of the United Confederate Veterans,

%an Camp No. 417 P. C,

Millican « 419 <«

Chattooga Veterans « 422 M

Br} an Grimes «« 424 «

Lamar «« 425 «<

Hiram S. Bradford " 426 "

Walter Bragg » 428 «

Tom Coleman " 429 ««

N. B. Forrest « 439

" 430

D. Wyatt Aiken « 432

George W. Cox ■« 433

Frank Cheatham « 434

" 434

Confederate Survivors Ass'n " 435

Norfleet « 43g

Dean « 437

Col. S B. Gibbons « 438

Carnot Posey « 441

"... " 441

Joseph E. Johnston " 442

G. W. Wharton « 443

William Barksdale " 445

Hampshire « 44(5

Eli Hufstedler « 447

Paragould « 449

W.F.Tucker «• 452

Sterling Price « 456

" 456

Lloyd Tilghman " 465

John Bowie Strange. " 464

Randolph County « 465

John C. Brown '< 468

Stonewall Jackson " 469

H. A. Clinch ... «• 479

„ " " 470

Chickamauga «« 475

Jeff Davis » 475

Horace King « 476

Cobb-Deloney «« 478

" 478

Winnie Davis « 479

Camp Watts «« 480

Gen. Adam R. Johnson " 481

Camp Key « 483

• • • • " 483

Bibb County « 484

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Col. L. C. Campbell Camp No. 488

Thos. H. Watts

William W. Wadsworth

Barbour County

William Henry Trousdale

Calhoun

R. H. Powell

Garlington

Caddo Mills

Rector

Archibald Gracie

Polignac

J . Ed . Murray

Camp Benning

Page-Puller

Standwaite ......

L. 0. B. Branch

W. R Scurry

Featherstone

Ridgeley Brown

John C. Brown

The Grand Camp C. V., Dept. of Va.

Jasper County

Confederate Veteran

Jim Pearce

Hopkins Co., Ex-Confd. Relief

Ass'n

Mcintosh

Col. E. B. Holloway

Camp Rion

Jack Hendricks

Elbert Bland

Pat Cleburne

Daniel S. Donelson

Mooresville

Martin H. Cofer

Drury J. Brown

Gen. T. M. Scott

Sam Cammack

Henry Gray

William Dawson

Jas. Gordon

Gen. Jno. S. Marmaduke

Tom Doughlas

Tom Moore

Henry E. McCulloeh

488

P. C.

7 60

489

1 15

491

6 00

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4 10

495

15 60

497

7 40

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3 20

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5 20

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2 20

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2 20

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1 80

543

544

1 13

545

8 90

550

2 00

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1 20

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4 00

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8 35

560

5 00

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9 20

556

2 90

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of the United Confederate Vet er tins. lot

J Ed. Rankin Gamp No, 558 P. C. 5 20

Jack McClure " 559 " 2 50

GeD. Jno. W. Whitfield . " 560 " 4 94

Ben McCullough « 563 " 2 07

John Pelham " 565 " i 1 00

" 565 " ad| 00

Joseph E. Johnston " 566 " 5 70

Bridgeport " 568 " 160

Bastrop " 569 " 4 90

Geo. E. Pickett " 570 « 7 00

Standwaite " 573 " 2 70

James C. Monroe " 574 " 3 20

Douglas Cooper " 576 " 2 40

R. M . Hinson " 578 " , j 2 00

. " 578 " ad' | 60

Gen. Frank Gardner "580 " 5 40

Joe Wheeler " 581 « 170

Jake Standifer " 582 " 3 10

S. H. Stout " 583 « 3 80

John R. Baylor " 585 « 2 10

John H. Wooldridge " 586 " 3 40

Capt, I. G. Killough " 593 " 150

Lafayette McLaws " 596 " 10 00

Richard Coke " 600 " 2 50

John M. Simonton " 602 " 3 10

Austin County " 606 " 2 10

Vermillion " 607 ■« , j 4 00

" 607 " ad' { 2 00

P.C.Woods " 609 " 9 40

R. S. Gould "611 " 6 00

Jones County, Texas " 612 " 2 30

John Benson " 613 " 4 90

Marmaduke " 615 " 3 20

John S. Ford " 616 " 2 20

Morgan County " 617 " 3 30

Fort Mason. ..'. " 618 " 2 00

Scott Anderson " 619 " 2 20

Camp Raguet " 620 " 10 00

San Felipe " 624 " 2 00

Winnie Davis " 625 " 3 50

Joe O. Shelby " 630 « 2 50

Fred Ashford " 632 " 4 00

Haskell County " 633 " 2 80

Alcibiade DeBlanc " 634 ,( 1 60

Sweet Springs " 635 " 1 50

Thomas G. Lowrey M 636 " 2 20

Gen. Santos Brunavides " 637 " 190

John G. Fletcher " 638 " 10 00

Walter P. Lane ■« 639 " 2 40

102 Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

D.C.Walker Camp No. 640 P. C. 590

Camp Marion " 641 " 7 50

Sumter " 642 « 5 30

Bandera " 643 « 3 20

A. S. JohnstoD " 644 " 2 00

Dock Belk " 645 " 5 80

Lexington " 648 " 8 00

Hardee " 653 " 1 95

Albert Sidoey Johnston "654 " 2 60

Macon Co. Conf 'd. Vet. Ass'n "655 " 3 30

John C. Burke " 656 " 14 00

Stonewall Jackson " 658 " 4 00

John S. Bowen " 659 *« 4 50

John B. Clark «' 660 " 9 20

Manor " 664 " 3 90

Steedman "668 " 7 40

Eunice " 671 " 3 70

Robert Ruff ner " 676 " 5 00

Denson " 677 " 8 90

Norval Spaugler " 678 " 6 00

Shenandoah " 680 " 3 60

Zebulon Vance " 681 " 10 20

W. H Ratcliffe " 682 " , ( 1 00

" 682 " aa' { 1 10

William F. Corbin " 683 " 50

Major John L. Mirick "684 " 4 20

Marmanduke " 685 " 3 40

Gen. Marsh Walker " 687 " 2 50

C. H. Howard " 688 " 3 20

Monroe County " 689 " 6 00

Freeman " 690 " , j 4 00

" 690 " ( 1 80

Pleasant Hill " 691 " 4 80

Joe Wheelr " 692 " 4 70

Col. John A. Rowan " 693 " 2 80

Hart .: " 697 " 2 60

Kerrville " 699 " 5 80

North " 701 " 2 00

Micah Jenkins " 702 " 3 70

G. R. Christian " 703 " 6 40

Richard Kirkland " 704 " 5 00

Samuel V. Fulkerson " 705 " , j 5 10

" 705 " aa* ( 2 30

Camp Crittenden " 707 " 4 60

J. R. Giles " 708 " 5 50

William E. Jones " 709 " 11 20

John Peicival " 711 " 2 80

Crow " 712 " 3 50

J. E. B. Stuart " 716 " 70

of the United Confederate Veterans. 10^

J. J. Searcy Camp No. 717 P. C.

Gen . M. M. Parsons " 718

Joe Johnston " 722 "

William S. Grj mes " 724

W.B.Tate " 725

Brown-Harman " 726 "

Capt. Silas R Crispin " 727

Capt. Thomas McCarty " 729

George Doles . " 730

St. Louis " 731

Col. David Shanks " 734

Gen. M. M. Parsons " 735

Gen. D. M. Frost " 737

Lee's Summit " 740 "

Jim Tillman •■ 741

Kershaw " 743 "

Charles Rutledge Holmes " 746 "

Franklin Buchanan " 747 "

Warthen " 748

John McEnery " 749 «'

Lane-Diggs " 750

Lafayette County " 752 "

Stephen D. Lee " 753

Emett McDonaid " 754 "

The Confederate Veterans Asso-
ciation of Savannah, Ga .... " 756 "

Stonewall «« 758

R. T. Davis " 759

Gen. N. B. Forrest " 762

Marieta •« 763

Mitchell " 764

McHenry " 765

Hennegan " 766 "

A . Burnet Rhett " 767

The Confederate Veterans Asso-
ciation of California " 770

Robt. E.Lee " 771

Stonewall Jackson " 772 "

George H. Steuart " 775

Pat Cleburne "776

Major Kyle Blevins " 777

Hugh McCollum " 778

Walkup " 781

" 781

Anderson " 782

" 782

Hart " 783

Major John Jenkins " 784

Darlington " 785 " 16 00

8 30

3 30

2 00

6 40

4 70

15 00

3 00

9 70

10 10

7 80

4 20

6 30

6 00

1 90

3 00

3 60

2 80

10 80

5 30

3 70

4 20

12 00

4 00

2 50

21 80

5 80

5 20

2 50

5 25

3 10

2 00

4 20

6 40

4 90

2 50

2 10

3 10

2 30

8 80

3 60

10 00

1 84

3 00

3 60

1 50

104 Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

L. M. Keitt Camp No. 786 P. C. 1 40

John P. Taylor «« 792 " 9 50

Thomas Ruffia , « 794 " 4. -j-q

Guilford County " 795 « 6 00

A. K. Blythe « 796 « 3 40

Surrey County. . . « 797 « 4 jq

George B. Eastin « 803 M. F. 200

w ". . " " 803 P.C. 27 00

Wm. Richardson ... « 804 " 5 00

" 804 M F. 2 00

Col. Lowe ■• 805 P.C. 2 60

Jackson « 806 " 10 15

Cundiff « 807 " 3 80

Buchel « 808 " 1 70

Healy Claybrook « 812 " 2 90

S. M. Manning « 816 " 5 60

Dick Taylor « 817 " 2 90

South Georgia Conf'd Veteran .. . " 819 " 7 50

P. M. B. Young « 820 •' , ( 8 30

" « 820 » ad> \ 70

J. D. Graham " 822 " 3 00

Gen. Paul J. Semmes " 823 " 2 70

T. W. West « 824 " 4 20

Jos. D. Sayera « 825 " 3 10

Jefferson « 826 " 3 00

Johnson Hagood " 827 " 3 25

J. H. Berry « 828 " 2 00

Richmond County " 830 " (7 70

" 830 « acL J 1 10

Up. Hayes » 831 '< 2 00

Walter R. Moore " 833 " 2 40

McElhenny « 835 M. F. 3 00

TO " " 835 P. C. 3 40

Flourney « 836 " 1 50

A- P- Hill « 837 " 25 20

Jackson «< 838 " 5 00

Rivers Bridge " 839 " 2 00

Harllee " 840 " 4 50

Samuel Corley «« 841 tl ( 7 60

" 841 « ad- I 50

Wick McCreary « 842 " 2 90

Jeff Davis « 843 " 3 00

Jo. Shelby » 844 " 2 80

John C. Lamb " 845 " 2 60

Pink Welch "848 " 3 52

Drysdale « 849 " 2 00

Jack McCurtin " 850 " 2 20

Ben McCullough " 851 " 1 80

David S. Creigh » 856 " 5 00

James Mclutosh " 802 P. C -, ( 5 00

874 " , j 1 00

874 " aa 1 2 20

of the United Confederate Veterans. 105

Pendleton Camp No. 857 M. F . 2 00

Mercer " 858 P. C. , j 1 30

" " 858 " . I 20

El Dorado " 859 " 2 80

S. B. Maxey " 860 ". 110

James Mcintosh " 862 M. F. 2 00

J 5

862 " au \ 1 70

Sidney Johnston " 863 " 2 00

Stonewall Jackson " 864 " 2 50

Joe Johnston " 865 " 2 00

Henry Roberts " 866 " 5 30

Pat Cleburne (i 867 " 6 00

Crawford County " 868 " 2 60

Robert Jones " 869 M. F. 2 00

" 869 PC. 1 40

Gen. Jos. H. Lewis " 874 M. F. 2(0

"874 P. C. 3 60

Gibbs " 875 " 2 00

Jenkins " 876 " 2 00

Hardy County " 877 M. F. 2 00

" 877 T. C. , j 3 10

" 877 " a \ 70

Stonewall Jackson " 878 M. F. 2 00

" 878 P. C. 3 00

" 879 M. F. 2 00

" 879 P. C. , ( 1 00

" 879 " aa { 1 CO

James Breathed " 881 M. F. 2 00

" 881 PC. 6 20

Thomas W. Napier " 882 M. F. 2 00

" 882 P. C. 1 00

Jas. G. Gresham " 8H3 M. F. 2 00

" 883 P. C. I 50

S.L. Freeman " 884 M. F. 2 00

" 884 P. C. 2 00

Denison " 885 M. F. 2 00

« 885 P. C. 3 20

R. E. Lee " 887 M F. 2 00

" 887 P. C. , f 2 10

" 887 " \ 90

Guthrie " 888 M. F. 2 00

" 888 PC. 1 50

" " 888 " , J 1 50

" " 888 " aa | 2 10

Jefferies " 889 M. F. 2 00

" " 889 P. C. , ( 2 70

" " 889 " a { 80

106 Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

John Sutherland Camp No. 890 M F.

" 890 P. C.

" 890

Albert Sidney Johnston " 892 M. F.

"892 P. C.

"892

Lawson-Ball " 894 M. F.

" 894 PC.

" 894

Haskell " 895 M. F.

" ... " 895 P. C.

Morrall " 896 M. F.

" " 896 PC.

Sam Checote ... " 897 M. F.

« 897 PC.

« " 897

W.A.Johnson « 898 M. F.

" 898 P. C.

« 898

Jno. C. Carter " 899 M. F.

« 899 P. C.

S S.Stanton . . ■' 900 M. F.

Crocket Childers " 901

" 901 P. C.

" 901

Garnett " 902 M. F.

" 902 PC.

James F.Fagan .... " 903 M. F.

Betts, Ball, Stokes " 904

" « ' 904 P. C.

Chichester " 905 M. F.

" 905 PC.

Col. R. M. Russell ... " 906 M. F.

" «• 906 P. C.

Shriver Gray's " 907 M. F.

... " 907 PC.

" 907

John W. Rowan " 907 M. F.

" 907 P. C.

« " 907 "

Frank T. Nicholls " 909 M F.

" 909 P. C.

Armstrong " 910 M. F.

« 910 PC-

Meadville " 911 M. F.

" 911 PC.

Avera " 913 M. F.

« " 913 PC.

Joseph E. Johnston " 915 M. F,

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Joseph E. Johnston Camp No. 915

Paul Anderson " 916

" 916

Frank Eagsdale " 917

" 917

0. A. Lee " 918

" 918

D. Waller Chenault " 919

Fort Mill ■ 920

" 920

C. W. Boyd " 921

" 921

Ledbetter " 922

" 922

J.W.Gillespie " 923

W. H. T. Walker " 925

" 925

C. J. Colcoek " 928

" 928

Burgess •* 929

" 929

Savage Hacket " 930

Henry Havron " 931

B. S. Ownes " 932

" 932

Bill Green " 933

" 933

John M. Lilliard " 934

Gen. James Connor " 939

"939

Sam Davis •* 940

" 940

S. G. Sheperd " 941

E. C. Leech " 942

** 942

N.B.Forrest " 943

. " 943

" 943

William C. Hancock . . ...» " 944

Capt. Elijah W. Home " 945

McCullough " 946

" 946

Charles L. Robinson " 947

" 947

Moffett Poage " 949

" 949

P.O.

6 50

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

5 40

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

1 40

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

3 50

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

1 70

M. F.

2 00

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1 50

M. F.

2 00

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2 00

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2 00

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6 30

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3 00

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2 20

io8 Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

Winnie Davis Camp No. 950

" 950

Col. Jno. T. Jones " 952

" " 952

Transylvania County " 953

James R. Love " 954

" 954

Thomas C. Glover ... " 957

Eufaula ' " 958

" " 958

Dade County " 959

David G.Burnet.. " 960

M 969

Bertram «• 961

Adairsville " 962

" 962

Johnson County " 964

Lloyd Tilgham " 965

" " 965

Pratt " 966

Patt Cleburne " 967

M. C. Butler " 968

" 968

Genl. Wm. Phillips " 969

Sam B. Wilson " 970

. " 970

William M. Slaughter " 971

Greenfield ... " 972

Longstreet " 973

Humboldt " 974

Gen. Monroe Parsons " 976

" " 976

Ben. T. Embry . " 977

Westmoreland " 980

" 980

J.B.Ward " 981

Stewart Countv " 983

Henry L. Wyatt " 984

Sedalia " 985

« " 985

The Mountain Remnant " 986

Jeff Thompson " 987

" 987

Bernhardt " 988

C. S. Winder " 989

Jim Purtla " 990

" 990

Van H. Manning " 991

McMillan " 994

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

1 70

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

5 80

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 80

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

4 60

M. F.

2 00

P. C.

2 00

M. F.

2 00

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2 00

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2 00

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2 00

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2 00

22 00

2 00

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1 50

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2 00

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2 50

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2 00

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1 10

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2 00

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2 70

M. F.

2 00

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2 00

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3 20

2 00

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2 00

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2 40

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2 00

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M. F.

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of the United Confederate Veterans. log

Warren McDonald Camp No

John A. Jenkins

New Hope

Joseph B. Johnston

J. E. B. Stuart
Edward Manigault .

Henry M. Ashby
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Adam Johnson

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Dawson

Benton County.
Arnold Elzey . . .

Collierville . .
L. N. Savage.

Boyd-Hutchinson .
Woody B. Taylor .

Wat Bryson.

William Terry. . .

Jno. R. Neal

Isaac R. Trimble

Pat Cleburne
Tatnell

3. 997

M. F.

2 00

998

2 00

999

2 00

1000

2 00

1000

P. C.

2 30

1001

M. F.

2 00

1002

((

2 00

1002

P. C.

2 60

1003

M. F.

2 00

1004

2 00

1004

P. C.

2 20

1005

M. F.

2 00

1005

P. C.

2 00

1006

M. F.

2 00

1006

P. C.

2 00

1008

M. F.

2 00

1008

P. C.

3 00

1009

M. F.

2 00

1013

2 00

1014

2 00

1015

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2 00

1015

P. C.

2 40

1017

M. F.

2 00

1018

2 00

1018

P. C.

4 10

1019

M. F.

2 00

1020

2 00

1020

P. C.

2 50

1021

M. F.

2 00

1021

P. C.

2 10

1022

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2 00

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2 00

1025

2 00

1025

P. C.

4 10

1027

M. F.

2 00

1028

2 00

Amount received for 1897 $3,473.86

Amount received from Camp No. 851 to commencement

of 1897 56.50

Received from Sale of Books 3.00

" " Commissions . . > 47.00

" Certificates 5.00

Total amount received $3,585.46

Balance from last report 84.65

I io Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

{ "WITH ITEMIZED AND RECEIPTED BILLS. )
1896.

July 15 Miss A. C. Childress account services chiefjclerk

and stenographer

15 Postage .stamps (sundry times) .... ,

17 Miss A. C. Childress account services as chief

clerk and stenographer

17 John P. Hopkins, account printing

Aug. 12 A. W. Hyatt Co., Ltd. on account printing and

stationary

12 Postage stamps

15 John P. Hopkins on account printing

15 Postage stamps

18 Postage stamps

29 Miss Mary Childeess, services in full

30 Postage stamps

31 Julius Weis, rent offices 2 months

Sept. 16 Miss A. C. Childress, account services as chief

clyrk and stenographer

17 Joe. Ricks, services as porter

18 Postage stamps

26 Hyppolite Bastile, services with mimeograph &c.

28 Postage stamps : .

Oct. 20 Postage stamps

Nov. 18 Postage stamps

Dec. 1 Postage stamps ....

5 Postage stamps

17 Postage stamps , .

• • • 24 Postage stamps

1897

Jan. 28 Postage stamps 5 00

30 Postage stamps 37 50

Feb. 9 Postage stamps 5 00

20 Postage stamps

Mch. 8 Postage stamps

13 Col. E. H. Lombard, Louisiana Division

13 Miss A. C. Childress

17 Expense account Trip to Nashville, arrange

for Reunion

17 Postage stamps „

17 Porter and for office sundries

1 7 Postage stamps

Mch. 17 Miss A. C. Childress, on account services as

chief clerk and stenographer

• • 25 Roberts & Co., lumber for office shelves

68 30

25 00

10 00

20 00

7 00

45 00

25 00

of the United Confederate Veterans. u I

May 25 Postage stamps % 30 00

• • 25 A . W. Hyatt Co., Ltd., on account stationery

and printing . 25 00

25 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing 25 00

25 Julius Weiss, rent of office for two months. ... 30 00

26 Col. James G. Holmes, S. C. Division 47 66

26 Col. Junius Davis, N. C. Division 27 86

27 Postage stamps 5 50

27 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing. ...... 50 00

29 Julius Weis, rent of office for two months 30 00

30 A. W. Hyatt Co., Ltd., on account stationery
and printing 25 00

30 Postage stamps 40 00

April 1 Postage stamps 100 00

1 Hyppolyte Bastile, for services 15 00

1 Postage stamps 50 00

3 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account of printing 50 00

5 A. W. Hyatt Co., Ltd., on account stationery

and printing 25 00

5 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing 25 00

5 Julius Weis, rent of office for two months. ... 30 00

8 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing 25 00

8 A. W. Hyatt Co., Ltd., on account stationery
and printing 25 00

9 Miss A. C. Childress, on account of services
as chief clerk and stenographer 15 00

11 Col. H. A. Newman, Mo. Division 26 90

12 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing 50 00

12 A. W. Hyatt Co., Ltd., on account stationery

and printing 25 00

12 Julius Weis, rent of office for two months 30 00

12 Postage stamps 35 00

12 The Strobridge Lithograph Co , on account cer-
tificate of membership 100 00

17 Western Union Telegraph Co., for telegrams. . 7 15

17 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account stationery 50 00

19 F. F. Hansell & Co., typewriter supplies 5 70

19 The Strobridge Lithograph Co., on account cer-
tificate of membership 100 00

23 Miss S. H. Priestley, on account services ad-
dressing envelopes, mailing, etc 30 00

24 Miss A. C. Childress, on account services chief
clerk and stenographer 10 00

24 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account printing 25 00

29 Postage stamps 30 00

30 Hyppolyte Bastile, on account services with

mimeograph, etc 12 00

May 3 The Strobridge Lithograph Co., on account

certificate of membership 100 00

112 Seventh Annual Meeting and Reunion

May 4 H. H. Hodgson, typewriter supplies $ 1 25

4 Miss A C. Childress, on account services as

chief clerk and stenographer 50 00

4 Postage stamps 25 00

4 Southern Exprsss Co., freight on wrappers. ... 2 40

5 The Thompson-Morris Co., invoice, mailing
cards, etc 2 45

6 H. H. Hodgson, for ribbon, typewriter 1 00

8 Jno. P Hopkins, en account printing 25 00

10 Southern Express Co., freight on certificates. . 3 45

12 Postage stamps 27 50

13 Adjutant N. S. Henry, returning amount over-
paid 2 50

14 Cromwell Line, freight on cellular paper 4 32

14 Capt. J. R. S. Selleck, dray age on cellular

paper 1 00

14 E. C. Palmer & Co., 1000 sheets tissue paper.. 1 25
14 Miss S. H. Priestley, on account services ad-
dressing envelopes, mailing, etc 30 00

14 Miss A. C. Childress, on account services as

chief clerk and stenographer 100 00

19 Postage stamps 35 00

May 19 Expense account paid for seal press 5 00

19 West Union Telegraph Company 11 75

19 The Strobridge Lithograph Co., balance due

on 2000 Certificates 140 00

19 The Thompson, Morris Co., bills for cellular
paper 49 88

20 Southern Express Co., freight on certificates
of membership 3 25

20 Miss A. C. Childress, on account services as
chief clerk and stenographer 10 00

21 E. C. Palmer & Co., for wrapping paper 2 90

21 Postage stamps 30 00

24 The N. O. Picayune, for advertising 90

26 Postage stamps 75 00

27 Southern Express Co., for shipping certificates 2 40
May 27 The Times Democrat for advertising 90

28 Hyppolite Bastile, account services with Mimeo-
graph, etc 10 00

29 Jno. P. Hopkins, on account of printing 50 00

29 Southern Express Co., frieght on certificate

membership 3 30

31 Hyppolite Bastile, on account of services 12 00

31 Southern Express Co., fretght on certificates

membership 1 40

31 P. Passera, making out certificates membership 2 50
31 Southern Express Co., freight on certificates

membership 2 40

of the United Confederate Veterans.

113

June 1 A. W. Hyatt Co., Ltd !

1 Postage Stamps

1 Southern Express Co., freight on certificates. .

1 Southern Express Co., freight on certificates

membership

4 Postage stamps .......

5 Jno. P. Hopkins, on occount printing

5 Postage stamps

7 F. F. Hansell & Bro , bill mineograph and

typewriter supplies ....

7 N. O. Stencil Works, for rubber stamps

7 Postage stamps

8 Miss S. H. Priestley, on account addressing en-
velopes and mailing, etc

10 Postage stamps

12 Julius Weis, rent of office for 3 months

12 Postage stamps

12 C. H. Kuster, on account making out certifi-
cates membership

14 S. H. Moorman, on account of addressfng en-
velopes and mailing, etc

16 Postage stamps

19 Miss A. C. Childress, account chief clerk and
stenographer

Amount expended 3478 82

Balance on hand 191 29

$ 50

15 00

35 00

100 00

[official.] GEO. MOORMAN,

Adjutant General and Chief of Staff.
Examined and approved by

W. A. MONTGOMERY,

Chairman Finance Committee.

5"S

UNIVERSITY OF N.C. AT CHAPEL HILL

00038563367

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